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Frédéric Minne has been appointed to manage the next release of Claroline, code named Peebo. Frédéric is working with the virtual campus team at the University of Louvain (Belgium). The stable release of Peebo is scheduled to September 2005. Expected main new features are wiki, resources linker, forums and quizzes improvement, user notification, syndication and SCORM export.

The last issue of the French Journal Linux Pratique contains an article relating the experience of using Claroline at the University of Versailles.

More at this address : http://www.linuxmag-france.org

The Claroline team is proud to announce the official release of Claroline 1.6. The new Claroline version is a major release. After a tremendous work of Quality Assurance process, the application had certainly never reach this level of powerfulness, stability and consistency.

New assignment tool, improved quizzes, layout personalization, external authentication and much more. See the new feature list to get an idea of the Claroline 1.6 added value.

Thanks to a group of security fanatics (Zone-H), Claroline has just benefited of great safety improvements. It is the main reason of the Claroline 1.5.4 release. We highly recommend to upgrade to this recent version.

The shortcoming Claroline 1.6.0 stable version will also integrate those last security fixes.

Get the Claroline 1.5.4 in our Download section.

A list of the updated scripts since Claroline 1.5.3 is available in the readme.txt file coming with the 1.5.4 archive.

Claroline 1.6 is about to be released shortly. A lot of new features expected by our user community has been added to the software.

Since the addition of these new features, some current translations are not up to date anymore. Therefore we would appreciate any help to improve these translations.

Compared to the previous Claroline versions, we've worked hard to lighten the translation task. A new translation editor has been especially released for this version and the process has been considerably simplified.

See how to translate Claroline 1.6 here

Marcel Lebrun has just published "eLearning pour enseigner et apprendre" (eLearning, for Teaching and Learning).

Based on the experience of Claroline at the University of Louvain (Belgium), it treats in a positive way how to elaborate pedagogical devices both adapted to these new technological tools and devoted to promote learning.

More on this book here.

• Download it and test it.
• See the new features in Claroline 1.6

The LENTIC is a research center from the University of Liège (Belgium) focused on organizational innovation processes. In order to assess Claroline users needs concerning the integration of copyrighted contents, the LENTIC organizes two roundtables focused on reference books and other contents in HRM and related disciplines.

These roundtables are organized on

• March 22 - Brussels
• March 24 - Paris

Claroline 1.6 beta 2 is now released. This should be the last beta version before a short coming release candidate.

The promized new configuration interface has been implemented, allowing claroline administrators to easily set a lots of parameters on a campus (upload limits, acessibility settings,...).

Hugues Peeters also finalised the External authentification system and the Single Sign On (SSO) system, allowing Claroline to be connected to a lot of different external systems.

The assignment tool interface has been totally redesigned according to the community feedbacks.

See the list of all new features and try it on Claroline 1.6 beta demo website

This version is not aimed for production purposes, it is only for test, use instead Claroline 1.5.3.

The Claroline team just set up a monthly newsletter system to keep the Claroline community informed with any relevant information regarding Claroline and its usage.

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