Claroline
Claroline is collaborative learning environment based on the
PHP programming language and the MySQL relational database. This
software allows teachers or education institutions to create and
administer courses through a web browser such as Firefox or Google
Chrome.
The system provides group management, forums, document
repositories, calendar, chat, assignment areas, links, user profile
administration on a single and highly integrated package.
Claroline is used by hundreds of institutions around the world.
Features include:
- Extremely simple learning management system with a strong
focus on usability
- Publish documents in any format (PDF, HTML, Office,
Video...)
- Run public or private discussion forums
- Manage a list of links
- Create student groups
- Create online exercises
- Creating exercices with a list of questions
- Elaborating different types of questions
- Tracking the results of the users
- Structure an agenda with tasks and deadlines
- Assignments offering:
- Planned work sessions
- Automatically close or open assignments uploads
- Time planning. (start date and end date)
- Give a personalized (or automatic) feedback to any work
session submission.
- Work content can be text, file or text and file
- Classes is a tool which allows a platform administrator to
manage more easily users by grouping them in classes and subclasses
on your virtual campus. Then classes can be and enrolled to
specific courses
- Make announcements (also via e-mail)
- Have students submit papers
- Consult statistics of frequenting and success in the
exercises
- External authentication system provides methods to
authenticate user from a significant number of systems (LDAP
servers, 14 databases from Oracle to ODBC, POP3 servers, IMAP servers,
vpopmail accounts, RADIUS, SAMBA password files SOAP, and various CMS
or LMS applications
- Single Sign On (SSO) system enabling users, once logged
into Claroline, to connect to all other web sites session
without the need of physically enter repetitive usernames
and passwords
- Build your own extensions
- Translated in 35 languages
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