The latest info about eLearning with Chamilo
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…
There’s been much talk over the last years about Chamilo 1 and 2, whether they were the same product, whether we were going to merge, etc. Last month’s General Assembly of the Chamilo Association (which also made me the happy…
Just to keep a personal reference somewhere digital and where it could also be used by others, here is a list of Chamilo releases/versions and the corresponding dates (and files links): 2021-08-25 Chamilo 1.11.16, Calci 2020-11-30 Chamilo 1.11.14, Nowa Sól [#] 2020-08-13 Chamilo…
Just as a reference for later (in alphabetical order) – this list was originally quickly composed as part of the planning of a comparative study which was not concluded: Open Source: A-Tutor Canvas LMS Chamilo Claroline Docebo Dokeos eLMS Ilias…
To respect the wishes of the trademark holder, Dok€os(TM) is not mentioned by its true trademark in the article below, and will simply be replaced by “Dok”. Any resemblance to an existing LMS would be totally fortuitous. For all of…
Those of you watching closely the Dokeos code will have noticed… I stopped contributing to the project in December 2009, along with my team of 12 and all of our fellow community members. The only changes we sent were actually…
A frequent question I’ve been asked is why, when installing Dokeos on a local computer, then trying to see it from another computer, the styles are broken (the homepage appears as a list of links from top to bottom). This…
Dokeos 1.8.6.2 will ship a new beta tool, the time tracker for exercises. It’s been asked for since 2004, as far as I can remember working on Dokeos, but I have always refused to start implementing it, mostly because it…
This article is clearly at level “piece of cake” for those of you working day to day with UTF-8 and unicode headaches, but I have plenty of problems with my own team to explain why they should never put a…
I have updated my system early to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and, to my surprise, there is a little change that could cause dramatic problems in Zlib (library dealing with compressed data). The gzopen() function has been changed to gzopen64()….
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