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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

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