Welcome to Apereo

Xerte – Content Creation for All

The Xerte community builds free content creation tools for all author skill levels. The software is designed around a core belief that simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible. When you deploy Xerte, you can engage all the content creators you need to. Compelling new approaches to teaching and learning - free software to support them.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

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Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai

When the Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland wanted to improve test and question re-use, they turned to Sakai and Apereo Commercial Partner Unicon. The goal was to make cataloging, searching, and re-using questions and question banks easier for instructors. Working in partnership, USU and Unicon developed new question tagging and search capabilities and shared them back to the Sakai community.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

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Xerte at the University of Cape Town

When the University of Cape Town Library needed a tool to create content for their MOOC, they chose Xerte. Xerte's "author once, run anywhere" paradigm allowed them to author content independent of their MOOC - and retain and curate it independently.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

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A National Learning Analytics Service from the Jisc

When Jisc were sourcing software for a national learning analytics service, they turned to the Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative for key components. Apereo takes a component-based platform approach to learning analytics - capable of operating at national scale.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Apereo Analytics software

Timetabling and Scheduling with UniTime

UniTime is a comprehensive scheduling/timetabling solution made by higher education, for higher education. UniTime is freely available under an open source license. Your institution can deploy with community-based support, or with for-fee professional services. Your institutional choice, to suit your institutional circumstances.

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

Xerte – Content Creation for All

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

Uniformed Health Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Improves Test and Question re-use with Sakai

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Sakai

Xerte at the University of Cape Town

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Xerte

A National Learning Analytics Service from the Jisc

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about Apereo Analytics software

Timetabling and Scheduling with UniTime

Apereo. It's about freedom.

Free to license. Free to adapt. Free to innovate.

More about Apereo | More about UniTime

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News

Open Apereo 2020 Videos: Software Community Update - Fiosan

September 16, 2020

Presented by: Duncan MacGruer, Portal Services Team Manager at University of Edinburgh

About Fiosan: Fiosan (pronounced Fi-san) aims to transform task-related communications within higher education institutions, through delivering a cross-system solution for personalized notifications and emergency communications, enabling notifications to be created-by and consumed across multiple services and communication channels.

ATLAS Winner Videos: China in the World, A Common Core Course to Build a Global Community

September 14, 2020

Presented by Luisa Li, James Miller and Qian Zhu at Open Apereo 2020

Mind the Ethics Gap

September 9, 2020

Personal blog post on Educational Technology and Ethics from Anne-Marie Scott, Chair of the Apereo Foundation Board of Directors.

Apereo Reports Significant Donation to Open Source for Education

July 8, 2020

The Apereo Foundation today announced receipt of a major donation to support and sustain open source software in education. The donation of $75,000 USD will be divided between the Apereo Open Academic Environment, an academic collaboration environment with widespread adoption in France, the Apereo Foundation itself and Sakai, a leading open source LMS.

Dr. Charles Severance, in making the donation, said, "I feel that Apereo and Open Source in Education are very important and adding my financial support to these efforts reflects what I see as the future value of the Apereo work." Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation, which stewards sixteen open source academic offerings added, "In the current climate, the free license model of open source software allows flexibility, scalability and choice for Higher Education. Open source software provides affordances for innovation enabling Higher Education Institutions to tailor solutions to their needs. Dr. Severance's significant donation will strengthen existing work and enable us to reach new constituencies at a critical time."

Sakai 20 Launched

June 29, 2020

Sakai 20 Launched: Includes new cloud integrations and new features that enhance faculty grading and course management

Get to Know the 2020 Apereo Fellows

June 17, 2020

The Apereo Fellows program seeks to foster community leadership and contributions by recognizing and supporting active contributors. This year four (4) Fellows were be chosen by the selection committee and each Fellow will receive a modest stipend. Learn more about our amazing 2020 Apereo Fellows by reading their biograpy and viewing their photos.