Chamilo

In 2024, you entrusted us with many challenges, and we were delighted to support you in creating your customized training portals.

It was a year rich in collaboration, with the implementation of tailor-made solutions to maximize your learners' chances of success and simplify the work of your teams on your Chamilo portals.

The entire BeezNest team, main editor of Chamilo LMS and official service provider, extends its best wishes for 2025.

May this new year be synonymous with joy, progress, and new successes in your training projects!

In our exchanges with users and the Chamilo association that manages the Chamilo user forum, a recurring question often arises:

Hello Chamilo, a quick question:

I was recently asked to highlight the differences between Moodle and Chamilo. From what I’ve observed, both LMS platforms seem to offer similar features through comparable modules.

What sets Chamilo apart from Moodle?

We wanted to share an amazing contribution from the University of Grenoble Alpes for Chamilo, integrated into version 1.11.8, directly related to students’ self-assessment during their university integration, particularly for prerequisite tests with certainty levels. In short, a new type of question added to the already extensive list available in Chamilo!

Optimizing your time with course sessions in Chamilo

Note: This article summarizes the presentation by Nicolas Ducoulombier, Project Manager at BeezNest, during ChamiloCamp ONLINE in October 2024.

Chamilo is an educational platform that allows for the creation of online courses enriched with various tools to meet the needs of both instructors and learners. Among these tools, the "Learning Path" tool stands out for its ability to structure a personalized educational pathway. In this article, we will explore how to use this tool to create a learning path in a simple and effective manner.

In an increasingly connected world, virtual classrooms have become a cornerstone of online training. With Chamilo LMS, a robust and intuitive e-learning platform, educational institutions and businesses have a powerful tool to organize and deliver real-time interactive sessions.

Virtual classrooms break geographical barriers, bringing learners and trainers together in a dynamic virtual environment. By integrating video conferencing solutions like BigBlueButton or Zoom, Chamilo LMS ensures a seamless and engaging experience with key features such as:

Although the hype around MOOCs has faded a bit already, these Massively Open Online Courses are now part of the daily internet products or services you can invest in to make your professional or personal life better in the short, medium or even long term. But where some platforms like EdX clearly specialize in MOOCs, some people ask us whether Chamilo is ready for MOOCs.

In recent years, the Chamilo LMS software we develop has grown in size, to something that many people might consider unreasonable (to some extent, we do too). This article explains why the Chamilo package for Chamilo 1.11.8 weighs 1100MB (yeah, 1.1GB!) or, in its compressed form, about 285MB. We've heard comments of many people about this. These usually go like this: