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Product sheet: Claroline 1.7.0
- LMS name: Claroline
- Brief description: Claroline is one of the most used LMS in the world. A lot of Universities appreciate the collaborative learning environment that allows teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web. The tools provided by the system (group management, forums, document repositories, calendar, chat, assignment areas, links, user profile administration, and many others) give to the users all the possibilities to realize whatever scenario.
- Official project page: http://www.claroline.net
- Technical sheet: Claroline technical sheet
- Evaluation date: 2005/07/11
| Product sheet | |
| LMS name | Claroline |
| Development team | Thomas De Praetere (for the versions before 1.5.0), Hugues Peeters, Christophe Gesché and a few other developers (more than ten) are the members of the development team with the support of the Catholic University of Louvain (Institut de Pédagogie universitaire et des multimédias) and a lot of translators. |
| Support team | It's possible to get in touch with the development and support team writing to Claroline info |
| Version number of the release evaluated | 1.7.0 |
| Technology used | PHP, Apache, MySQL |
| Operating Systems supported | All OSs on which it's possible to install PHP, Apache and MySQL (e.g. Windows, Linux, UNix, etc) |
| Database/Software requirements | Apache, PHP 4.1.0 or later (with zlib and mysql support enabled) and MySQL 3.23.6 or later. |
| License type | GPL |
| E-Learning standards supported | SCORM 1.2 |
| Languages | Actually almost thirty languages are available (arabic, croatian, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, italian, japanese, portuguese, russian, spanish, and many more). |
| Main features | Claroline is one of the most popular LMS in the Open Source world, anyone who deals with eLearning has tried it once. Claroline layout is well known and the tools available are estimated by all the users' community. All the instruments are easy to understand and to use, the navigation is intuitive and the administration complete. Among the new features of the last version are the Wiki and the possibility of buiding working area where students can share learning materials and exercises. |
| Is a course content management included? | Course can be created and managed inside Claroline and it's possible to realize contents (pages) and tests. | Pros |
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| Main installations in the world | There are many installations all over the world: the full list is on the web site. |
| Installations in Italy | |
| Notes | We suggest you to install and take a look to this tool, just to make a comparison with the others. |
| Link to demo version | Offical Demo Platform |
Last modified
2005-09-05 02:07 PM
