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 […]
In Chamilo LMS 1.9.* (meaning 1.9.0 up to 1.9.10), deleting some files from the web interface don’t always delete them on disk. While this means that, sadly, you don’t get to get space back when cleaning up your courses, you can at least recover them (or your administrator can) if you deleted them by mistake. […]
BeezNest announces the immediate release of the e-learning system Chamilo LMS v1.9.10 Open Source and Free Software solutions provider BeezNest, lead editor of the Open Source Chamilo LMS (Learning Management System), just announced the publication of version 1.9.10, the product of 6 months of active development improving previous versions. Spawned from another Open Source LMS […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.9 (from Github) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance. A previous article on this blog explains how to install it using Juju Charms. To follow this guide, you should be familiar with the notion of SSH keys and installing/configuring server software on […]
On Wednesday 21st of January 2015, the UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain), through an e-mail from its rector’s advisor and its co-rector for education and training, announced that it would abandon the development (and usage) of Claroline over a period of 18 months. There’s a little mention about Claroline Connect being “immature” at this time, […]
If you have to make Captivate-generated SCORM 1.2 content in your (web) platform and you want *more* information about what’s going on, this guide might help. One of the trickiest things about Captivate and SCORM is that Captivate doesn’t handle the credit/no-credit (cmi.core.credit) very well. This parameter, in combination with cmi.core.lesson_mode should let you retake […]
A critical LMS is a service (not only the software, but also the team around it) on which you can rely to launch and follow training/teaching activities that are critical to your organization.
As we migrate to gettext for Chamilo LMS v10, we are also looking for a platform to host our translation system (considering our current translation system does not support gettext). We will migrate most existing translations, but we were looking for the right platform to manage the translations as a community. One tool that attracted […]
Chamilo LMS 1.9.8 comes with an OpenMeetings plugin. This means that you can organize OpenMeetings videoconference rooms directly from your Chamilo courses. Now this setup requires a few essential things. The 2 most important are: a working installation of Chamilo (referenced as [C] below) and a working installation of OpenMeetings (referenced as [OM] below), then […]
If you’re in a hurry/on speed, know this: this procedure is slightly more difficult (so longer) than installing the charm on Amazon you can skip directly to “Installing Juju” if you already have juju installed, you can skip to the last 2 lines of the “Installing juju” section if you already have juju-docean installed and […]
In a growing world with growing education needs, one would think that systems like Chamilo or Moodle would have a continuous growth ensured, year after year. Well, this is certainly true for Chamilo LMS (for now), as it is apparently gaining about 100,000 new users per month (average over the last 12 months), but I […]
Note: this article was originally written for Chamilo 1.9 but it is also valid for all versions 1.10 and 1.11. We seldom receive a request from users of Chamilo LMS saying their sessions are cut in the middle of their activity. And sure, it might so happen that you are in the middle of the […]
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