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Software
Most software created for the GRAPPLE project will be made publicly available as open source and can downloaded from this page. We also have some live demos available that can be used to quickly get an overview of some of the possibilities of using the Grapple framework.
Development of software within the Grapple project is still ongoing work. However, some software is ready for testing and can be dowloaded here or can be tested live from our test server.
GALE
The GRAPPLE framework evolves around integrating adaptive courses in learning management systems. GALE (which stands for Adaptivity GRAPPLE Adaptive Learning Environment) is the engine that is developed within the Grapple project for serving these adaptive courses. The Grapple framework will enable an integration of GALE with LMSs. Within the project we will look specifically at Claroline, CLIX, LearneXact, Moodle and Sakai. However, GALE can also be used as a standalone adaptive learning engine.
GALE can now be tried live on our testserver by following the link below. The link will guide you to a manually crafted Milky Way test application. You can register if you want, or browse the application anonymously. In the future additional adaptive applications will be made available.
GALE is deployed as a Java servlet and runs in a servlet container environment, but note that it is exclusively tested on the Apache Tomcat. GALE also needs a MySQL database (v5.1 or higher). The best way to use GALE is by building it from source. You can download the following zip file that contains the source. For instructions look at the readme file that is included in the zip. GALE is platform independent and can be built on either Windows, Linux or Mac.
GALE source - v0.86 (3.5 MB zip file)
For easy deployment we also made a precompiled WAR that uses a HSQLDB backend. The WAR can be deployed without additional steps.
GALE WAR - v0.86 (18.9 MB war file)
Extensive documentation about GALE is still ongoing work. However, its basic architecture is detailed in Deliverable D1.3, “Stand-alone” Adaptive Learning Environment specification ( PDF ). When more GALE documentation is finished, it will be published here.
GAT
In order to build new adaptive applications in GALE regular users will want to use an authoring environment that supports them in this process. That is the purpose of the GRAPPLE Authoring Tools (GAT). Implementation of the GAT is still ongoing work, but a preliminary version is available on our test server for a try out.
More information about the GAT Tools can be found in deliverables D3.1a (domain tool, pdf), D3.2a (CRT tool, pdf) and D3.3a (CAM tool, pdf). More documentation will become available later on as well as the source of the GAT tools.
Besides the general GAT tools for authoring of regular adaptive Web application, additional modules have been developed for authoring Adaptive Simulations and adaptive Virtual Reality. A preliminary version of the Adaptive Simulation authoring tool is now available for live testing. Shortly, the preliminary version of the VR authoring tool will be posted as well.
Adaptive Simulation Authoring Tool live test verion
More information about the Adaptive Simulation tools can be found in D4.1a (infrastructure, pdf) and D3.5a (authoring tool, pdf). More about the VR tools can be found in D4.2a (infrastructure, pdf) and D3.4a (VR tool, pdf). More extensive documentation of these tools is also still ongoing work.
Feedback
Feedback on the software is very welcome. Feel free to contact us. Also please report any bugs or problems you run into so that we can improve our software. Thanks. We can be reached by e-mail via:
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