The last version of Claroline 1.7 is publicly available. It provides the last exertions of our team to offer you a system more reliable and easy to use than ever.
This new version comprises :
This is not an April fool : a serious security hole has just been been detected in Claroline 1.7.*, 1.6.* and 1.5.* (previous Claroline versions are not affected by these flaws).
We seriously advise all people using Claroline 1.7 to patch their platform as soon as possible.
Download the patches at these addresses :
claroline.patch1**01.zip'.claroline' directory found inside that archive on the 'claroline' directory already available on your web server.All information about the annual conference of Claroline users (ACCU2006) is now available on the official site:
A call for contributions is also present, if you want to share your experience with other people, don't hesitate to propose it.
Toutes les informations concernant la conférence annuelle des utilisateurs de Claroline (ACCU2006) sont à présent disponibles sur le site de la conférence:
Un appel à contribution est également présent, si vous désirez partager votre expérience avec d'autres, n'hésitez pas à la proposer.
Claroline will be presented at the 'Journée du libre' in Amiens (France) on Saturday 25th of March 2006.
This fourth edition of the event is part of the national annual manifestation "Libre en fête", aiming to promote the use of opensource softwares in any educational, non-lucrative or professionnal context.
This year's conference will focus on the following subjects:
Arturo Casar Sarasola, from the Universidade de Vigo recently sent us some news about their amazing online campus.
Based in Spain, the university uses Claroline for now 3 years. Their campus is composed of 403 courses for more than 11.000 users with not less than 165.000 connections since October 2005.
More about this nice use of Claroline :
Eric Uyttebroeck from the "Centre des technologies au service de l'enseignement" (CTE) of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) has just published a thorough analysis of Claroline 1.7.
Eric achieved a similar work with Thierry Henau in 2003 for Claroline 1.4. This new 74 pages article is a complete overhaul of the previous one. It assesses Claroline 1.7 features one by one and gives documented and argued comments that may prove useful for the decision maker.
The document is available at this address : http://www.ulb.ac.be/ulb/cte/docs/EvalClaroline17.pdf (in French)
Annual Conference of Claroline Users
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
May 22 and 23, 2006
Conférence Annuelle des Utilisateurs de Claroline
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)
22 et 23 mai 2006
Time for the new release of our monthly maintenance program. Aside some minor bug fixes, Claroline 1.7.3 main improvements concern :
For complete details, see the Claroline 1.7.3 Changelog Page.
Claroline will be presented at the ITC conference organized by the Profetic (integration of ICT and new pedagogy in education).
This conference will present a number of activities on various topics linked to sharing, publishing and reusing digital resources. It is addressed to stakeholders in the academic sphere - professors, researchers, academic advisors, students, administrators, media and computer technicians, university direction representatives, etc. - as well as anyone with an interest in the proposed topics.
Claude Galaise and Michel Gendron from the university of Québec at Rimouski will share their pedagogical experiences with Claroline. Do not hesitate to meet them overthere.
The event will take place on March 24, 2006 at Sherbrooke University, with a preconference on March 23.
Claroline 1.7.2 is a maintenance release fixing the last bugs communicated by the Claroline community.
The main improvements concern the 8 new translations updates: Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Persian, Polish, Romanian (new), Spanish Latin and Traditional Chinese (new).
For more details, see the change log 1.7.2 page on the wiki.
Note : We invite any people currently using Claroline 1.7 or 1.7.1 to upgrade their server to this minor release.
Thanks to large contributions from the community,
the latest Claroline 1.7.1 release includes much improvements in the interface translation.
Among others recent contributions there are :
See more about the Claroline translations :
Many thanks to the Claroline translators community!
Time for our Autumn release. Beside updated translations and several bug fixes the main improvements are :
Claroline will be presented at the EDUCA-Online in Berlin from wednesday 30rd to friday 2th December 2005. Online-educa is the world's largest international e-learning conference.
Guillaume Lederer from the Cerdecam team will be presenting Claroline in a stand. Do not hesitate to meet him overthere.
Amand Tihon, a former student of the Institut Paul Lambin finished his bachelor in computer science. He worked at Cerdecam Research Center (Brussels) for a period of 3 months on improving the Claroline standardisation.
The SCORM exportation (in the learning path tool) and the IMS-QTI exportation (in the exercice tool) of Claroline 1.7 are the main results of his great job for the Claroline project.
Amand sent us his analysis of the SCORM and IMS-QTI exportation in Claroline, which is now available in the download section.
The Claroline core developement team will be part of PHP forum in Paris from 9 to 10 november 2005. The PHP forum is organised by the AFUP (Association of French Users of PHP).
Meet Aurélien Van Hamme, Christophe Gesché, Frédéric Minne, Guillaume Lederer, Hugues Peeters, Mathieu Laurent, Nicolas Leblanc and Sébastien Piraux overthere.
See the PHP forum website
Sébastien Piraux from the Cerdecam team recently released the version 1.5 of PhpLangEditor (PLE). PLE is an extension for the famous Internet browser Firefox.
The addon is made to help translators of PHP applications like Claroline. The Mozdev Community Organization supports the project on mozdev.org where the project pages and server are hosted.
Claroline will be presented at the Educatice in Paris from wednesday 23rd to friday 25th november 2005. Educatice is a national event showcasing recent advancements in education ICT, in conjunction with EDUCATEC, a trade show entirely dedicated to the uses and applications of information and communication technologies for education (ICTE).
Guillaume Lederer and Mathieu Laurent from the Cerdecam team will be presenting Claroline in a stand of the opensource software village, next to famous projects like Mozilla, Debian,... Do not hesitate to meet them overthere.
Karolj Skala from the University of Zagreb in Croatia recently sent us two scientific papers about the implementation and experimentation of Claroline in their department of Physics, where future physics and computer sciences teachers were trained using Claroline.
Their results will be presented at the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education in Vancouver 2005.
Claroline 1.7 has now reached the stability level required by our new Quality Assurance process. And the whole Claroline team is proud to announce today its official release.
This new version offers a bunch of interesting new features : Wiki, RSS, Notifications, Quiz and Forum improvements, IMS-QTI export, etc... See our new features page for a complete list.
Thanks to all of you who help us to achieve this new version (see Credits page).
Christine Knieriemen from Germany recently sent us a new version of the student and teacher Claroline manual in German, ready for Claroline 1.7. See the documentation section to download the manuals.
If you want to help to translate Claroline and its documentation in your own language, contact us.
Just a few days to wait for the stable release of Claroline 1.7. The reason of this slight delay is that we have the opportunity to test furthermore our upgrade process on two huge production campuses. These tests should benefit to all the Claroline community.
While waiting, here is Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate 2. Six new complete translations have been added to the package (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Galician). There is no identified problems anymore. We invite the Claroline community to make the effort to download and test this version so that we catch any remaining bug.
Today, the Claroline team releases two new versions of Claroline, 1.7 RC and 1.6.3.
Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate. Last step before the stable release scheduled to the beginning of September. Translators are now invited to complete the missing translations and testers to notify the last remaining technical issues identified.
- See the new features
- Try out the demo
- Download Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate
Claroline 1.6.3. While waiting the stable release of Claroline 1.7, Claroline 1.6.* is still the version recommended for production context. The main improvements are a complete Spanish translation, some new security improvements and bug fixes. For more details, see the Change Log page.
Single sign On (SSO) is an authentication process enabling user to authenticate once and gain access to multiple systems. For example, once authenticated in the library catalog, students don't have to re-enter their password to access their Claroline courses or their web mail.
Claroline 1.7, available in September, provides new SSO features based on the Central Authentication Service protocol (CAS), originally developed by the Yale University. CAS is one of the most used SSO systems in US Colleges and Universities. Its implementation into Claroline permits a seamless integration of this platform into existing organization Portals.
The Claroline team has just released Claroline 1.6.2. The main improvements concern :
Note. People having already installed claroline 1.6.0 or 1.6.1 on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.
The June edition of Mosaïques publishes an article written by Martine Renaut and Jean-Michel Boucart relating their experience as Claroline’s users in the context of the Digital Working Environment, project initiated by the Education Department of the French government.
The Mosaïques Journal is the publishing part of the National Corporation of School Directors of the Free Education in France.
Continuing its development process, Claroline 1.7 has reached today Beta stage. Aside Wiki, RSS support, ressource linker, quizzes improvement, this version also includes IMS-QTI and SCORM exports and a notification system warning user of new items.
Thanks to the Claroline community for all the feedback received since the alpha release. We invite you now to thoroughly test this new version.
Warning ! This beta version is not aimed for production use, only for test.
Curious people who would like to catch a glimpse of the next Claroline version, have now the opportunity to download Claroline 1.7 Alpha.
Main new features are wiki, ressource linker, RSS support, improved quizzes and forums.
Warning ! This package is an Alpha version, and Alpha means experimental... This package is absolutely not aimed for production use.
Renaud Fallier is the author of the new Linker tool integrated in Claroline 1.7 (code named Peboo - alpha version available in a few days). Renaud has developed this code in the context of an internship at UCL. Last week, Renaud got his study certificate and he has been received with Great Distinction. Congratulation Renaud !
Two months after the Claroline 1.6 release, time is come to provide a maintenance pack gathering feedbacks and contributions from the worldwide Claroline user community.
The main improvements concern new translation updates (German, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Galician, Spanish) and compatibility widening with the main PHP hosting services.
For more details, see the Change Log 1.6.1 page on our wiki.
Christine Knieriemen for Germany recently sent us a new version of the student and teacher Claroline manual in German, see the documentation section to download them.
Frédéric Minne has been appointed to manage the next release of Claroline, code
named Peebo. Frédéric is working with the virtual campus team at the
University of Louvain (Belgium). The stable release of Peebo is scheduled
to September 2005. Expected main new features are wiki, resources linker,
forums and quizzes improvement, user notification, syndication and SCORM export.
The last issue of the French Journal Linux Pratique contains an article relating the experience of using Claroline at the University of Versailles.
More at this address : http://www.linuxmag-france.org
The Claroline team is proud to announce the official release of Claroline 1.6. The new Claroline version is a major release. After a tremendous work of Quality Assurance process, the application had certainly never reach this level of powerfulness, stability and consistency.
New assignment tool, improved quizzes, layout personalization, external authentication and much more. See the new feature list to get an idea of the Claroline 1.6 added value.
Download Claroline 1.6 in our Download section.
Thanks to a group of security fanatics (Zone-H), Claroline has just benefited of great safety improvements. It is the main reason of the Claroline 1.5.4 release. We highly recommend to upgrade to this recent version.
The shortcoming Claroline 1.6.0 stable version will also integrate those last security fixes.
Get the Claroline 1.5.4 in our Download section.
A list of the updated scripts since Claroline 1.5.3 is available in the readme.txt file coming with the 1.5.4 archive.
Claroline 1.6 is about to be released shortly. A lot of new features expected by our user community has been added to the software.
Since the addition of these new features, some current translations are not up to date anymore. Therefore we would appreciate any help to improve these translations.
Compared to the previous Claroline versions, we've worked hard to lighten the translation task. A new translation editor has been especially released for this version and the process has been considerably simplified.
See how to translate Claroline 1.6 here
Marcel Lebrun has just published "eLearning pour enseigner et apprendre" (eLearning, for Teaching and Learning).
Based on the experience of Claroline at the University of Louvain (Belgium), it treats in a positive way how to elaborate pedagogical devices both adapted to these new technological tools and devoted to promote learning.
More on this book here.
The LENTIC is a research center from the University of Liège (Belgium) focused on organizational innovation processes. In order to assess Claroline users needs concerning the integration of copyrighted contents, the LENTIC organizes two roundtables focused on reference books and other contents in HRM and related disciplines.
These roundtables are organized on
Claroline 1.6 beta 2 is now released. This should be the last beta version before a short coming release candidate.
The promized new configuration interface has been implemented, allowing claroline administrators to easily set a lots of parameters on a campus (upload limits, acessibility settings,...).
Hugues Peeters also finalised the External authentification system and the Single Sign On (SSO) system, allowing Claroline to be connected to a lot of different external systems.
The assignment tool interface has been totally redesigned according to the community feedbacks.
See the list of all new features and try it on Claroline 1.6 beta demo website
This version is not aimed for production purposes, it is only for test, use instead Claroline 1.5.3.
The Claroline team just set up a monthly newsletter system to keep the Claroline community informed with any relevant information regarding Claroline and its usage.
Subscribe to the Claroline newsletter and stay informed about anything concerning the project.
Subscribe here or follow instantly the news with our RSS feed.
Implemented in Benin, the SERCO project supports students who get their primary degree but has not found place in public secondary school. This project concerns 12.000 people in 4 department of Benin. This year, in order to strengthen collaboration between their different establishments, SERCO project has launched digital classes and chosen Claroline to implement them.
A security hole has been detected by Yiannis Girod in Claroline 1.5 yesterday evening. The Claroline team has immediately wrote the patch fixing this bug and, it is available today morning.
A new example of the great collaboration among the Claroline community. The patch is available here.
To apply the patch, just replace claroline/create_course/add_course.php file on your server with the new file provided.
Mathieu Laurent and Guillaume Lederer from the Cerdecam team present Claroline and PHP at Solution Linux (from 1st to 3td of february).
You can find them at the AFUP boot where Claroline is presented as a concrete example of PHP application.
The Cerdecam team has completely updated the Worldwide section of our
web site. It inventoried more than 370 organizations using Claroline from
57 countries. If you want to be part of this list, don't hesitate to contact us at info@claroline.net.
See the new worldwide section.
Even if 1.6 is on the pipeline (see beta release last week), 1.5 is still the claroline version recommended for production context. The Claroline team has just finished and made available Claroline 1.5.3. This is a maintenance release fixing the last bugs communicated by our user community. We invite any people currently using Claroline 1.5, 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 to upgrade their server to this minor release that will increase its reliability.
Note. People having already installed claroline 1.5.0, 1.5.1 or 1.5.2. on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.
The Claroline team is happy to inform you the release of Claroline 1.6 Beta. Thanks to many suggestions and contributions of the Claroline community, a lot of new functionalities and improvements will be available in this new version. This beta version is not aimed for production. See new features highlights page and try it on Claroline 1.6 beta demo website.
CAMPUS@Rouen, the online teaching center from the University of Rouen, was previously working on a platform based on Ganesha. This academic year, they have decided to switch to Claroline. The opening was sheduled for November. The campus is now available at http://www.univ-rouen.fr/CTEUR/campus/
01 Informatique is a French magazine aimed to IT Managers. The last
number (1788) reports the testimony of the Mine School of Nantes
introducing e-learning practices into the scholarship.
"Two years ago, we choose the free solution Claroline, which allows teachers to easily put on line all their documentary bases on the intranet."
According to the article, the time dedicated to certain fields has been divided by four with still some gain on learning.
The article is available on line at http://www.01net.com/article/256164.html
The Reload group has made a comparative article on SCORM and IMS import and interoperability between several opensource and proprietary LMS, including Claroline. See this article here.
The Reload Project includes a well known Open Source SCORM Player and Editor. SCORM (for Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a public standard followed by major e-Learning actors to build interoperable and structured learning content.This standard is used in the learning path tool of Claroline since the version 1.5.
This new release fixes the last known bugs communicated by the Claroline user community. Every tools have been widely tested, stabilised and securised. We highly recommand any campus currently using Claroline 1.5 or 1.5.1 to upgrade to this minor release that will increase its reliability.
Note : people having already installed claroline 1.5.0 or 1.5.1. on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.
Free EOS is a GNU Linux distribution build by
Easter-eggs at the initative of AFPA (French National Association for Continuing Education). This distribution is mainly aimed to French people or French institutions. The project motto is "Fast, simple and Good". And that perfectly fits the claroline team philosophy ! The last release of Free EOS (1.3) provides our new Claroline 1.5.1 integrated among other php packages like Spip or phpBB.
More at http://free-eos.org
The September issue (64) of the Linux magazine French edition reports in a 3 pages article an experience of a complete training in Computer Science using Claroline in the town of Tbilissi (Georgia). This training is set in partnership with the University of Versailles (France). The courses are partially provided to the Tblissi students by the way of the Claroline server hosted in Versailles.
Angela Büchler from Technische Universität Berlin has written an updated version of the Claroline student manual in German. Thanks to her.
The document is available on the documentation section of the Claroline Web site.
To keep the Claroline manuals and documentation up to date with the development pace of our developer community, the Claroline team has decided to move the documentation to a complete new section which can be feed by the Claroline users around the world. The site has started to be fed by Guillaume Lederer, Mathieu Laurent and Philippe Dekimpe from CERDECAM and is already quite impressive. See the new documentation site
If you are interested to translate the Claroline Documentation Web site to
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send a mail to info@claroline.net.
This new release fixes the last known bugs communicated by the Claroline user community during summer, and provide PHP 5 compliancy.
Note : people having already installed claroline 1.5.0 on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.
" We tested Claroline during the first part of 2004. This platform allows teacher to create and administrate interactive support with less than one hour of training [...]. We have tested the platform on gynecology and obstetrics [...]. Other departements test today the e-campus with ease. This platform is also used by our midwives school. Our experience proves that we can put in place rapidly and with no cost a powerful and functional collaborative working platform in a medical training unit."
The whole text is available (in French) at http://www.yvelines-competences.com/
The claroline team is proud to state the official release of Claroline 1.5. Since the last release (claroline 1.4.2 - June 2003), there has been more than 2300 code changes* into the application, increasing both features, stability, security and usability.
Thanks to all of you who help us to achieve this new version (see credits).
* And more than 480 liters of coffee ...
This is the last pre release of Claroline 1.5 before the stable release. Please, hurry up to report us the last noticed bugs.
Mains new Features :
Download it and test it !
Claroline 1.4.1 is now available for download. This new version is essentially a maintenance release, fixing the last bugs reported by the Claroline community.
Claroline is the first Learning Management System to offer all the official languages of the European Union. This is due to a wide community effort where both universities, organisations and private individuals have joined their efforts.
Multilinguism is a true objective for the Claroline team in the perspective of a wide and effective cooperation between organisations coming from all european member States.
You can help keeping languages updated. See 'Collaborate' section.
The main Claroline improvements are not visble. We have totally recoded the Claroline Kernel to be more stable, more secure and more modular.