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Today, the Claroline Team celebrates the release of Claroline 1.8, the latest version of the popular, Free and Open Source e-Learning Management System.

This new stable version, that comes with a new logo, offers a bunch of interesting new features :

• A new default layout
• Module system : build your own Claroline extension
• User rights and profiles are now completely customizable
• Classes management improved
• Personal language selector
• Course Tools Improvements :
• Documents : Download all documents in a compressed file
• Exercises : Import/export your exercises, ...
• Wiki : Internal search engine
• Configuration : many new parameters

You'll find more information and screenshots about Claroline 1.8 in our detailed claroline 1.8 page (or the french version).

Thanks very much to every contributor !

• Download Claroline 1.8
• Try out the demo

M. Almario Abenoja, from the Benguet State University (BSU) in Philippines, made a new Teacher Manual in English for Claroline 1.7 : "Using Claroline as an e-learning tool", in order to help the Claroline use in his university.

See the documentation section to download the manual.

This state university north of Manila has been using Claroline since 2003, and is planning to extend the use of the platform by training and supporting their staff.

The authority of « Universidad Catolica del Norte » (UCN) decided some days ago to adopt Claroline. The main argument for this choice was the simplicity of use of Claroline in a multidisciplinary university. This simplicity allows the teacher to devote his energy where it matters most : the students learning and the quality of university teaching.

The UCN in Antofagasta (North of Chile) has different locations in North Chile : Coquimbo, San Pedro de Atacama and Santiago. This university has already a long collaboration with the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) which is the initial developer of Claroline. This collaboration includes pedagogical and technological trainings in the fields of university teachers development.

Víctor Manuel Martínez, from the Universidad Pédagogica nacional (Mexico), recently made some presentations for a workshop and congress in Mexico on the following subject : Platforms and Online education – Why Claroline?

His slides are available here (Spanish):

• Claroline, Un vistazo rápido al e-learning
• Plataformas, Educación en Línea y a distancia

Thanks to a team of techno-pedagogy from the UQAR (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Claroline will be used massively at the Universidad de la Serena in Chile.

What is more, the Bar of Quebec would like to use the eLearning platform for its lawyers. The UQAR accepted to elaborate experimental courses for them on Claroline.

The last version of Claroline 1.7 before the stable release of 1.8 fixes a security hole with webservers where PHP is configured with register globals set to ON.

This new version comprises:

• Fixes for all security holes found recently.
• A new translation, the Japanese. Thanks to Naoto KIMURA from Takushoku University in Japan.
• Mail notification in the assignment tool. Teachers receive a mail on new submission and students receive a mail on teacher's feedback.
• And other minor bug fixes.

For complete details, see the Claroline 1.7.8 Changelog Page.

Download Claroline 1.7.8

Or Apply the security patch for Claroline 1.7.7

Last step before the stable release scheduled to the beginning of September. This release includes scripts to upgrade from claroline 1.7 (and older) to 1.8, bugs fixes and improvements.

Next steps for the Claroline Team:

• Try upgrade on our production platforms
• Test campaign of each tools (to report and fix last bugs)
• Review English and French translations, and rebuild the files with the missing translations for the others languages

The Claroline project needs you! We are really keen to get more and more people involved in the project. If you are interested in helping, you can :

• Track and report bugs in the forum Bugs Claroline 1.8
• Review and translate the plaform
• Help for the documentation

 

Download Claroline 1.8 Release Candidate

Try out the Claroline 1.8 Demo

Continuing its development process, Claroline 1.8 has now been released as in Beta stage. Among other things, this release will include a new module administration, a new default WYSIWYG editor(TinyMCE), User rights and profiles administration, an indexed search engine,support of the IMS-QTI 2.0 standard,...

Thanks to the Claroline community for all the feedback received since the alpha release, it is more than 60 bugfixes and improvements that this new version contains. We invite you now to thoroughly test this new beta version.

• See Claroline 1.8 new expected new features
• Download Claroline 1.8 beta

Warning ! This beta version is not aimed for production use, only for test.

After one year of intense development, shared experiences and feedbacks within the Claroline community, we are proud to announce the release of Claroline 1.8 alpha.

This release, full of promising new features, (User right managements, search engine, module creations, exercise import/export, ...) can now be tested :

• Download Claroline 1.8 and test it
• See a temporary list of new features on Claroline wiki

You are invited to test it and report your opinion and feedbacks in the Claroline forum.

Do not use this version for production yet, this is just an alpha release.

Claroline 1.7.7 provides significant security improvement and repairs a security flaw remaining in the previous version.

The Claroline development team has implemented a new protection system rising the general security level of the platform one step further. This new protection system should prevent any input injection even on web servers where PHP is unproperly configured, like register globals set to ON.

In addition this release also provides some new translations and minor bug fixes.

• Download Claroline 1.7.7
• See the complete change list.