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, […]
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 […]
Since mid-2018, Chamilo is supported by all 3 major auto-installer platforms: Softaculous, Fantastico and Installatron, making it easier than ever to install on your own hosted server equiped with CPanel or anything similar. Chamilo has been growing faster and faster and has reached 20M users in August 2018. Since a few years back, Softaculous and […]
If you install Chamilo 1.11.6, for example, and dive into the details of its configuration, you might get confused by the fact that we have a “settings_current” table in the database at the same time as we have a (large) number of settings to be enabled through the app/config/configuration.php file. This boils down to one […]
If you use Chamilo and decided to develop your own template, you might be faced with an issue while upgrading from Chamilo 1.11.2 (or below) to 1.11.4 (or above). The issue will usually be reflected by either of these: a white page an error message about Twig if you have xdebug installed and showing error […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing the Chamilo e-learning portal, version 1.11.4 on a fresh Digital Ocean instance,on an Ubuntu 17.04 64bit distribution (also works with minor changes with Ubuntu 18.04) To follow this guide, you should be familiar with the notion of SSH keys and installing/configuring server software on Ubuntu […]
In this article, we’ll talk about managing an LMS when all institutional assignments handed in by students have to be handed in through the LMS, and what that means if you have several thousand students. This case is based on one of our customers which provides in-class English courses to about 55,000 students in a […]
This article can be considered an update of our first article on installing Chamilo (on a Raspberry Pi B+). This time, we are testing it with Raspberry 3, as of the 1st of April 2017 (no joke intended). Last time, we were testing with Chamilo 1.9, which is arguably less load-intensive, considering it doesn’t include […]
Ergonomics and usability with Chamilo LMS. Sometimes Open Source software gets criticized for lacking behind proprietary software when talking about compelling interfaces. Many people in our community, after spending years with other solutions, describe our software, Chamilo LMS, as the easiest to use and to manage. We would like to take this opportunity to explain […]
Understanding the differences between Chamilo (LMS), BeezNest and the Chamilo Association Truth be told, we didn’t do a lot of efforts to make this clear in the past, but as Chamilo LMS growth more popular and the business needs around Chamilo increase considerably, I feel like things should be set straight to avoid confusion and […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.10 (from Github sources) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance, on an Ubuntu 16.04 distribution. A previous article on this blog explains how to install Chamilo 1.9 using Juju Charms and another article explains how to install 1.10.2 on Ubuntu 15.10. The […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.10.2 (from Github packages) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance. A previous article on this blog explains how to install Chamilo 1.9 using Juju Charms. To follow this guide, you should be familiar with the notion of SSH keys and installing/configuring server […]
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