Chamilo is a learning management system designed to make online education accessible to teachers, students and training organisations. It provides a central environment for creating courses, distributing learning materials, assessing progress and managing educational activities.
The platform accommodates traditional classroom teaching, fully online courses and blended learning. Teachers can build learning paths that guide students through documents, exercises and other resources in a structured sequence.
Chamilo also caters for organisations that need to deliver training across multiple departments or institutions. Its administration facilities cover user accounts, groups, sessions and certificates, while reporting tools help educators evaluate participation and achievement.
The system supports a range of educational standards and integrates with external services, making it suitable for both academic and professional training.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create and manage courses containing documents, multimedia resources, exercises and learning activities.
- Build structured learning paths to guide students through educational content.
- Create quizzes with multiple question types, reusable questions and configurable assessment rules.
- Manage assignments, submissions, grading and teacher feedback.
- Track attendance for classroom and blended-learning sessions.
- Monitor learner progress, participation, assessment results and course completion.
- Generate certificates and badges based on defined achievement criteria.
- Maintain gradebooks for evaluating individual and group performance.
- Organise students into groups, classes, sessions and training programmes.
- Provide discussion forums, announcements, messaging and collaborative activities.
- Manage calendars, scheduled events and learning deadlines.
- Support SCORM, QTI and other educational content interoperability standards.
- Offer multi-institution and hierarchical multi-URL administration.
- Provide APIs for integration with external educational and business systems.
- Support configurable themes, multilingual interfaces and extensible plugins.
- Integrate with videoconferencing and document collaboration services.
Website: chamilo.org
Support:
Developer: Chamilo Association and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Chamilo is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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