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 […]
There is a surprising number of cases where you’d want to change the URL of a Chamilo portal, but the more common we see is when you take a backup copy of a portal and want to use that copy to build a new test portal. Obviously, if you keep the same URL, you’re going […]
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 […]
If you ever want to implement projects with Odoo and, like us, you are a bit itchy about non-free-software licenses and alternative BSD or LGPL-like licenses, you might want to know this. Odoo itself was previously (as OpenERP) AGPL, but it apparently (following David from Odoo S.A. in a message on the 2nd of March […]
For those developers of you wanting to do more than just develop under Linux, you’ll have realized that there are many things stopping you for doing proper video tutorials as easily as you would do it with some non-free (as in freedom) software. Fear not, though, as this tutorial, written at a time between Ubuntu […]
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 […]
This guide is written specifically to cover a lack of quality documentation for the installation procedure of an OpenMeetings 2.2 server on a Debian Wheezy box. It will be based on the manual available already for this procedure (but relatively badly structured and written in a rather improvable English), by Alvaro Bustos with the help […]
If you’re like me and you’ve developed a CDN distribution for your website’s content (while waiting for SPDY to be widely adopted and available in mainstream distributions), you might have noted that the Googlebot is frequently scanning your CDNs, and this might have made your website a bit overloaded. After all, the goal of the […]
A lot of people have been asking for a database schema of Chamilo 1.9. Here it is. The editable format can be found in the documents for Chamilo LMS: http://support.chamilo.org/documents/57 The image itself weights 3.2MB and has a few colours to try and focus on the important parts. All the tables in semi-circle at the […]
If you need to know what your website looks like in a browser that you don’t have available (for ethical, financial or other reasons), you can test you website (if public) using http://browsershots.org/ It’s a nice service (although a bit limited) for free, and you can get extensions for a reasonnable fee.
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