Claroline 1.9 RC1

Claroline platform allows hundreds of organizations from 93 countries to administer and create collaboration spaces and courses online.
Each course space provides a list of tools enabling the teacher to:
- Write a course description
- Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
- Administer public and private forums
- Develop learning paths
- Create groups of students
- Prepare online exercises
- Manage an agenda with tasks and deadlines
- Publish announcements (also by e-mail)
- Propose assignments to be handed in online
- See the statistics of the users activity
- Use the wiki to write collaborative documents
Adjustable to various training contexts, Claroline is not only used by schools and universities, but also by training centres, associations and companies. The platform is customizable and offers a flexible and custom-made working environment.
Main features:>
Manage documents and links
- Publishing documents and files accessible to the users
- Creating directories and sub-directories to gather files
- Creating hyperlinks and building your own HTML pages
 
Create online exercices
- Creating exercices with a list of questions
- Elaborating different types of questions
- Tracking the results of the users
Develop learning path
- Creating complete sequences of learning activities
- Putting together modules that consist of documents, exercises or imported SCORM contents
- Stimulating the students to read documents
- Filling exercises and following a learning activity
 
Coordinate group work
- Creating several groups of users enrolled in this course
- Defining the registration settings
- Providing own tools for each group
- Facilitating the collaboration between users during group work
Produce: assignments and wiki
- Posting files that can interest other course members
- Submitting an assignment to the course manager
- Elaborating or filling out an assignment from home on a unique document
- Gaining time and efficiency in group work
 
Discuss: chat and forum
- Public discussion space divisible into topics (asynchronous conversation)
- Online discussion tool (synchronous conversation)
 
Organize: agenda and announcements
- Adding events in the course calendar
- Showing the complete calendar displaying the events from all courses
- Attaching to an event a link to other tools of the course or to an existing resource
- Writing an annoucement which will be displayed on the course homepage
- Sending an annoucement by e-mail to a user or a group of users
 
Supervise: users and statistics
- Following the acces to the platform
- Tracking the tools use
- Supervising the progression of the users

System requirements:
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Enhancements:
- new module type : administrator tools
- updated translations
- enhanced user statistics tool
- a lot of bugs where fixed
- new dutch nl and dutch be language files
- new resource linker system
- Json API