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Folder and poster with the description of the ACCU2006 have been prepared by Laurent Colet from the Cerdecam, for people who would like to promote the event in their own establishment or institution.

While almost all the speakers are found for the ACCU, we are waiting people from Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain,... to speak about various experiences in using Claroline.

The final program describing every workshops' speakers will be soon available on the conference website.

• ACCU2006 poster : [FR] [EN]
• ACCU2006 folder : [FR]

The last version of Claroline 1.7 is publicly available. It provides the last exertions of our team to offer you a system more reliable and easy to use than ever.

This new version comprises :

• Fixes for all security holes found recently
• Slovenian translation of the user interface
• Significant Improvement of the "Add User" command inside courses (limiting the risk of duplicate accounts)
• A new set of nice layouts
• And other minor bug fixes
  See the complete change log

Download Claroline 1.7.5

Note. People working with Claroline versions previous to 1.7.* are also able to upgrade their systems : Download Claroline 1.6.4 and 1.5.5

This is not an April fool : a serious security hole has just been been detected in Claroline 1.7.*, 1.6.* and 1.5.* (previous Claroline versions are not affected by these flaws). We seriously advise all people using Claroline 1.7 to patch their platform as soon as possible.

Download the patches at these addresses :

• Claroline 1.7 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch17401.zip
• Claroline 1.6 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch16301.zip
• Claroline 1.5 : http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline.patch15401.zip

How to apply the patch

• Uncompress the zip archive file 'claroline.patch1**01.zip'.
• Copy the 'claroline' directory found inside that archive on the 'claroline' directory already available on your web server.

All information about the annual conference of Claroline users (ACCU2006) is now available on the official site:

• Registration
• Accommodation
• Conference schedule.

A call for contributions is also present, if you want to share your experience with other people, don't hesitate to propose it.

Claroline will be presented at the 'Journée du libre' in Amiens (France) on Saturday 25th of March 2006.

This fourth edition of the event is part of the national annual manifestation "Libre en fête", aiming to promote the use of opensource softwares in any educational, non-lucrative or professionnal context.

This year's conference will focus on the following subjects:

• The use of opensource software in the french national education.
• Presentation of several opensource projects, including Claroline.

Arturo Casar Sarasola, from the Universidade de Vigo recently sent us some news about their amazing online campus.

Based in Spain, the university uses Claroline for now 3 years. Their campus is composed of 403 courses for more than 11.000 users with not less than 165.000 connections since October 2005.

• The Claroline campus at Universidade de Vigo
• Their online help tutorial

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