EXeLearning
Version: 2.0.4 Web: http://exelearning.net
This is a continuation of the great, libre eXeLearning software, led by CENATIC, the Spanish state-run open source tech centre. It’s software for education, specifically for assisting tutors in delivering various sorts of materials to their students. The idea is to provide non tech-savvy tutors with an easy to use tool which allows them to publish texts and attachments without knowing XHTML, HTML5, CSS, Markdown and other technologies.
Once installed, eXeLearning is launched with $ exe , which goes ahead and creates a local web server at http://127.0.0.1:51235 and opens a web page in the default web browser. Within this the user has to select a preferred language, the markup format, web browser.
The productivity scenario for eXe starts with arranging the right page structure. Note that the ‘Add page’, ‘Delete’ and ‘Rename’ buttons on the top-left pane. Using it you can prepare the tree of categories (Topic > Section > Unit > …) and then populate it with some content. The software has a list of various templates, which it calls iDevices, in the lower-left panel. You can expand the desired category and double-click an item with the type of information you want to add to the page, which can be a poll, quiz, text entry, image and YouTube or Vimeo video etc. Finally, you can save the whole structure as a named ‘package’.
For each package eXe can generate interactive contents in XHTML or HTML5, create easily navigable web pages including text, images, interactive activities, image galleries or multimedia clips. All educational materials generated with eXeLearning can be exported in different digital formats and used independently or to integrate them into a LMS (Learning Management System) such as Moodle.
The tool is mostly based on Python and can easily compiled in any Linux distro. There’s also the Ubuntu PPA at ppa:exelearning/exelearning, an RPM package for Fedora and a distroagnostic static build in TAR.GZ form.
“Specifically for assisting tutors in delivering various sorts of materials to their students.”