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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.

Continuing its development process, Claroline 1.7 has reached today Beta stage. Aside Wiki, RSS support, ressource linker, quizzes improvement, this version also includes IMS-QTI and SCORM exports and a notification system warning user of new items.

Thanks to the Claroline community for all the feedback received since the alpha release. We invite you now to thoroughly test this new version.

• See Claroline 1.7 new features
• Download Claroline 1.7 beta

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

Curious people who would like to catch a glimpse of the next Claroline version, have now the opportunity to download Claroline 1.7 Alpha.

Main new features are wiki, ressource linker, RSS support, improved quizzes and forums.

Warning ! This package is an Alpha version, and Alpha means experimental... This package is absolutely not aimed for production use.

Download Claroline 1.7 alpha

Renaud Fallier is the author of the new Linker tool integrated in Claroline 1.7 (code named Peboo - alpha version available in a few days). Renaud has developed this code in the context of an internship at UCL. Last week, Renaud got his study certificate and he has been received with Great Distinction. Congratulation Renaud !

Two months after the Claroline 1.6 release, time is come to provide a maintenance pack gathering feedbacks and contributions from the worldwide Claroline user community.

The main improvements concern new translation updates (German, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Galician, Spanish) and compatibility widening with the main PHP hosting services.

For more details, see the Change Log 1.6.1 page on our wiki.

Download Claroline 1.6.1.