Ardora: An interesting app for creating school content
Scanning as usual every day the Cyberspace, specifically by the Twitter, I have come across the existence of a excellent free app, although it is neither free nor open. But that, for these days of isolation and social distancing, by the COVID-19 global pandemic, it can be very useful to many. Especially to Teachers and Students, since, it is from educative area. And this interesting app is called "Burning".
"Burning" is a very complete and useful application, designed for use by teachers. So that they can create their own web content, easily and quickly, without having to have too much technological knowledge of web design or programming.
Before getting into the topic of free app «Ardora», and because it is neither free nor open, it is worth noting that it may have as free and open alternative to the app called «JClick», on which we will make a publication later, and is currently described in its Official website on the table:
"An environment for the creation, implementation and evaluation of multimedia educational activities, developed on the Java platform. It is a free software application based on open standards that works in various operating environments: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris."
In addition, there are many other free and open projects and applications available on the Internet for educational purposes. Which can be very helpful, both for teachers and students, computer lovers or not. One to mention is «PrimTux: an education-oriented distro for the Raspberry Pi».
Ardora 9: Creation of school content for the web
What is Ardora?
Currently, "Burning" goes for his version 9.0a, Of date February 13 2021. For what is usually called "Ardora 9". And quoting his Official website, it is briefly described as follows:
"A computer application for teachers, which allows them to create their own web content, in a very simple way, without having technical knowledge of web design or programming."
Features
While their characteristics, functionalities and scope are expressed as follows:
"With Ardora you can create more than 35 different types of activities, crosswords, word searches, complete, graphic panels, symmetries, diagrams, etc., more than 10 different types of multimedia pages: galleries, panoramas or zooms of images, mp3 players or mp4, etc; «Server pages», annotations and collective album, timelines, poster, chat, poster, comment system and file manager, designed primarily for collaborative work between students, as well as the utilities that allow various content to be presented together such as activity packages, web spaces or virtual desktops (desktop)."
Download, installation, use and screenshots
For download on GNU / Linux, we just have to go to section of web download, press the download button and then select the appropriate option from "Ardora 9.0 - Linux 32bits" y «Ardora 9.0 - Linux 64bits ».
Once downloaded, and later unzipped your «.zip file », for our case study, your full name is "Ardora9_0aL64.zip", we just have to make sure that your file called "Burning" within the route «/home/sysadmin/Descargas/Ardora9_0aL64/», have execution permissions, and then with a simple click open it and start using it, since no installation required.
Once opened, we can only learn to use this useful tool. Which luckily has Spanish language support, among many others, since it is multilingual. And for this, we can make use of your help section that comes quite detailed with a lot of didactic and updated material.
Finally, and if necessary, in the following link there is an excellent unofficial manual of the previous version, version 8, which can be explored to help you understand it.
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Ardora», which is a very complete and useful application, designed for use by teachers. And they can create their own web content, easily and quickly, without major difficulties; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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