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Product sheet: Dokeos

  • LMS name: Dokeos
  • Brief description: The project started from a previous version of Claroline and has just become a product on its own. The goal is to help the trainer to create pedagogical content, to structure activities in learning paths, to interact with students and to follow their evolution through a reporting system. It quickly reaches a wide and common agreement.
  • Official project page: 1.5.5
  • Technical sheet: Dokeos technical sheet
  • Evaluation date: 2004/10/30

Product sheet
LMS name Dokeos
Development team The team is led by Thomas De Praetere and many developers (more than ten) collaborate with him; moreover a few Universities give their contribution.
Support team It's possible to get in touch with the development and support team writing toInfo Dokeos
Version number of the release evaluated 1.5.5
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.x or later (with mysql, zlib, preg and xml support enabled) and MySQL 3.23.6 or later.
License type GPL
E-Learning standards supported SCORM 1.2
Languages Actually more than twenty languages are available (arabic, croatian, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, italian, japanese, portuguese, russian, spanish, and many more)
Main features Dokeos is a quite recent fork of Claroline. Both tools are similar, but Dokeos shows its own personality now. A different approach to Learning paths, a SCORM runtime compatibility, a different organizations of a few tools: it's definitively more than a restyling.
Is a course content management included? Courses can be created and managed inside Dokeos and it's possible to realize contents (pages) and tests.
Pros
  • High usability and strong reliability
  • Learning path support
  • Chat, forum, Video/audio conferencing and many other tools availability
  • Test and assessment
  • SCORM modules import and runtime facilities
  • World wide languages support
Cons
  • Authoring tools can be improved
  • Users cannot choose their own style and personalization
  • No search engine
  • Documentation is not complete and it is only in English
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 Dokeos is a very interesting platform and the separation from Claroline story may give new strength and enthusiasm to the development.
Link to demo version Official demo



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