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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 :

• Enhancement of the Claroline interoperability with case insensitive external authentication systems (as LDAP),
• Repair of a security hole in the SSO extensions.

For complete details, see the Claroline 1.7.3 Changelog Page.

Download Claroline 1.7.3.

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.

• Visit the Conference website

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.

Download Claroline 1.7.2.

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 :

• Arabic by Eng.Ali Ismaeel
• Bulgarian by Alex Simidchiev
• Croatian by Karolj Skala and Bozo Jonic - Ruder Boskovic Institute
• Dutch by Svenn d'hert
• French review by Paul Muraille
• Galician by Gerardo Albela González - Bolseiro Servizo de Teledocencia
• Hungarian by Balázs Györök, associate professor at Szent István University (Hungria)
• Indonesian by Ery Atmodjo
• Persian by Elnaz Sarbar (Farsi Web)
• Polish by Jacek Grudzien
• Spanish by Gerardo Albela González - Bolseiro Servizo de Teledocencia
• Spanish Latin by Carlos Brys from Universidad Nacional de Misiones (Argentina)

See more about the Claroline translations :

• Translation progression
• Help to translate Claroline in your own language

Many thanks to the Claroline translators community!

Time for our Autumn release. Beside updated translations and several bug fixes the main improvements are :

• Forum search engine
• Better behavior on shared hosting
• Partial rewriting of the authentication system for better interoperability with external authentication sources (LDAP, CAS, Mambo/Joomla ...)
• Minor improvements in the tracking and the course settings

Download Claroline 1.7.1

See the complete change log

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.

• Visit the Online-Educa website

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.

Download Amand Tihon 's report (in French)

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