What is Chamilo?

It's a next generation learning content management system focusing on ease of use, re-usibality, collaboration and sharing.

Why use Chamilo?

Chamilo is one of the easiest open-source e-learning systems you will find on the market. E-learning being all about learning specific content, we try to make our tool as invisible as possible to your learners and as useful as possible to your teachers.

Chamilo has 10 years of code history behind it, and has been thoroughly tested and adapted to teachers and students needs.

Chamilo is free and open. While official providers will provide you with professional support whenever you need it, you are in no obligation at all to use their services in order to benefit from the advantages of Chamilo. You are and always be free to use, study, modify and distribute this software, and chances are you'll really like it.

How can I contribute?

First, check our contribution page: http://www.chamilo.org/contribute. Once you know how you'd like to help us, contact us at info@chamilo.org, or through our #chamilo IRC channel on freenode (you can also get there through our web applet on http://www.chamilo.org/irc). We'll be happy to help you through the first technological barrier.

How can I try Chamilo?

There's a "Try it out!" link in the menu where you get directly to our portal. The only thing you have to do is register (you'll get more possibilities registering as a teacher).

Who are you?

Well, right here, we are the developers of Chamilo, but there is a much larger community around Chamilo. Check our website: http://www.chamilo.org

Roadmap

There are two roadmaps for the Chamilo project: one for the 1.8 branch (currently stable) and one for the 2.0 branch (currently in development)

Chamilo "Classic" 1.9

Release scheduled for August 2011

soon (in the meantime, check our technical roadmap on http://support.chamilo.org/versions/show/22 )

Chamilo 2.0.x

Release scheduled for 2011

The combined branches of Chamilo are very active. Here is a video representing the activity of our developers during the last 6 years

Past revisions

Chamilo 2.0

Release december 2010, featuring:

• Applications: Assessment, Chamilo Translation Application, Courses, Forum, Personal Calendar, Personal Messenger, Portfolio, Profiler, Reservations, Search Portal and Wiki
• Course Tools: Announcements, Assessments, Blogs, Calendar, Chat, Descriptions, Documents, Forums, Geolocation, Glossary, Learning Paths, Links, Notes, Streaming Video, Video Conferencing, Wikis ... as well as tools for groups, sections, settings, maintenance, reporting, rights and users
• External services integration: Flickr / HQ23, Google Docs, MediaMosa, Photobucket, Picasa, Soundcloud, Vimeo, YouTube and BigBlueButton
• Content Types: Announcements, Assessments with matching questions,matrix questions, multiple choice questions, open questions, rating questions, select questions, fill-in-the-blanks questions, hotspot questions and ordering questions, BigBlueButton meetings, Blogs & blog items, Calendar events, Dailymotion videos, Descriptions, Documents, External Calendars, Feedback, Forums (with subforums, topics and posts), Glossaries and glossary items, Hotpotatoes, Introductions, Learning paths, Links, MediaMosa videos, Notes, Personal messages, Physical locations, Portfolios, Profiles, RSS feeds, Soundcloud audio tracks, System announcements, Tasks, Templates, Vimeo videos, Wikis and wiki pages and YouTube videos

Chamilo Classic 1.8.8.4

Released August 2011

• more than 80 bugfixes on 1.8.8.2
• certificates publications system + QR code
• improved exercises tool
• improved reporting
• more cron tasks and web services

Chamilo Classic 1.8.8.2

Released May 2011

• small bugfixes on 1.8.8

Chamilo Classic 1.8.8

Released May 2011

• personal portfolio
• link to external social networks
• see http://chamilodev.beeznest.com/documentation/changelog.html

Chamilo Classic 1.8.7.1

Released July 2010

• many bugfixes
• one security fix
• sessions management improvement

Chamilo Classic 1.8.7

Released May 2010

• learning director"s dashboard
• scorable attendance sheets
• full support of UTF-8 (including migration to UTF-8 from previous versions)
• light MVC insertion in legacy code
• better tracking capabilities
• social network apps
• timezones management (enables a student to get times shown in his timezone rather than the server's)

Screenshots

Get access to more than 20 tools to help you teach your course in a more portable and sustainable way.

Get precise reporting on every action taken by students inside your course.

Follow specific students and make sure you can assist the ones in need accurately and quickly.

Let teachers and students bond around an embedded social networking feature, in pure respect of the ethical values of your portal.

Get a large number of administrative features to configure and manage your e-learning portal.