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Sébastien Piraux from the Cerdecam team recently released the version 1.5 of PhpLangEditor (PLE). PLE is an extension for the famous Internet browser Firefox.

The addon is made to help translators of PHP applications like Claroline. The Mozdev Community Organization supports the project on mozdev.org where the project pages and server are hosted.

• Visit http://phplangeditor.mozdev.org/, the PLE page on Mozilla development website.
• See a complete demonstration of PLE to translate Claroline in your language.

Claroline will be presented at the Educatice in Paris from wednesday 23rd to friday 25th november 2005. Educatice is a national event showcasing recent advancements in education ICT, in conjunction with EDUCATEC, a trade show entirely dedicated to the uses and applications of information and communication technologies for education (ICTE).

Guillaume Lederer and Mathieu Laurent from the Cerdecam team will be presenting Claroline in a stand of the opensource software village, next to famous projects like Mozilla, Debian,... Do not hesitate to meet them overthere.

• Visit the Educatice website
• Visit the open source software village at Educatice

Karolj Skala from the University of Zagreb in Croatia recently sent us two scientific papers about the implementation and experimentation of Claroline in their department of Physics, where future physics and computer sciences teachers were trained using Claroline.

Their results will be presented at the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education in Vancouver 2005.

• Download the articles
• See the conference website at Vancouver

Claroline 1.7 has now reached the stability level required by our new Quality Assurance process. And the whole Claroline team is proud to announce today its official release.

This new version offers a bunch of interesting new features : Wiki, RSS, Notifications, Quiz and Forum improvements, IMS-QTI export, etc... See our new features page for a complete list.

Thanks to all of you who help us to achieve this new version (see Credits page).

Download Claroline 1.7.0

Christine Knieriemen from Germany recently sent us a new version of the student and teacher Claroline manual in German, ready for Claroline 1.7. See the documentation section to download the manuals.

If you want to help to translate Claroline and its documentation in your own language, contact us.

Just a few days to wait for the stable release of Claroline 1.7. The reason of this slight delay is that we have the opportunity to test furthermore our upgrade process on two huge production campuses. These tests should benefit to all the Claroline community.

While waiting, here is Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate 2. Six new complete translations have been added to the package (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Galician). There is no identified problems anymore. We invite the Claroline community to make the effort to download and test this version so that we catch any remaining bug.

Download Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate 2

Today, the Claroline team releases two new versions of Claroline, 1.7 RC and 1.6.3.

Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate. Last step before the stable release scheduled to the beginning of September. Translators are now invited to complete the missing translations and testers to notify the last remaining technical issues identified.

- See the new features
- Try out the demo
- Download Claroline 1.7 Release Candidate

Claroline 1.6.3. While waiting the stable release of Claroline 1.7, Claroline 1.6.* is still the version recommended for production context. The main improvements are a complete Spanish translation, some new security improvements and bug fixes. For more details, see the Change Log page.

- Download Claroline 1.6.3

Single sign On (SSO) is an authentication process enabling user to authenticate once and gain access to multiple systems. For example, once authenticated in the library catalog, students don't have to re-enter their password to access their Claroline courses or their web mail.

Claroline 1.7, available in September, provides new SSO features based on the Central Authentication Service protocol (CAS), originally developed by the Yale University. CAS is one of the most used SSO systems in US Colleges and Universities. Its implementation into Claroline permits a seamless integration of this platform into existing organization Portals.

The Claroline team has just released Claroline 1.6.2. The main improvements concern :

• New translation updates (Arabic, Brazilian and Chinese)
• Minor fixes transmited by the Claroline community.

Download Claroline 1.6.2

Note. People having already installed claroline 1.6.0 or 1.6.1 on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.

The June edition of Mosaïques publishes an article written by Martine Renaut and Jean-Michel Boucart relating their experience as Claroline’s users in the context of the Digital Working Environment, project initiated by the Education Department of the French government.

The Mosaïques Journal is the publishing part of the National Corporation of School Directors of the Free Education in France.