Many practitioners will have followed the evolution of the Xerte Online Toolkits.
Below is a quick update from JISC TechDis for this season of staff training opportunities.

1. The free and open source Xerte Online Toolkits can be downloaded from http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/downloads/xertetoolkits.zip and installed on a server to give colleagues an easy way to create "highly accessible content with minimal skill requirement" Note: when I tried this some time ago this wasn't my experience but I'm assured lots have changed - note to self 'revisit Xerte'.
   WARNING - some IT teams have been mistaking the Xerte software (a complicated developer programme) with the Xerte Online Toolkits (a template driven tutor focused program). Ensure the correct download by using the url above!
2. There are brand new high quality teacher-training focused resources on the JISC TechDis website at http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte. These show users how to get started and how to have step by step guides to some of the really popular interactivities.
3. If users want to try before installing they can have a go on the JISC TechDis sandbox - http://www.techdisplayxerte.info gets you to the right page and then login with...
   the id=techdis and
   the password=jisc.
   Full instructions on the downloadable guides at http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getxerte. The sandbox works best using FireFox - IE is 90% ok but every so often gives a code gobblydegook page on entry - clear it by refreshing and logging in again.