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Implemented in Benin, the SERCO project supports students who get their primary degree but has not found place in public secondary school. This project concerns 12.000 people in 4 department of Benin. This year, in order to strengthen collaboration between their different establishments, SERCO project has launched digital classes and chosen Claroline to implement them.

A security hole has been detected by Yiannis Girod in Claroline 1.5 yesterday evening. The Claroline team has immediately wrote the patch fixing this bug and, it is available today morning. A new example of the great collaboration among the Claroline community. The patch is available here.

To apply the patch, just replace claroline/create_course/add_course.php file on your server with the new file provided.

Mathieu Laurent and Guillaume Lederer from the Cerdecam team present Claroline and PHP at Solution Linux (from 1^st to 3^td of february).

You can find them at the AFUP boot where Claroline is presented as a concrete example of PHP application.

The Cerdecam team has completely updated the Worldwide section of our web site. It inventoried more than 370 organizations using Claroline from 57 countries. If you want to be part of this list, don't hesitate to contact us at info@claroline.net.

See the new worldwide section.

Even if 1.6 is on the pipeline (see beta release last week), 1.5 is still the claroline version recommended for production context. The Claroline team has just finished and made available Claroline 1.5.3. This is a maintenance release fixing the last bugs communicated by our user community. We invite any people currently using Claroline 1.5, 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 to upgrade their server to this minor release that will increase its reliability.

Note. People having already installed claroline 1.5.0, 1.5.1 or 1.5.2. on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.

The Claroline team is happy to inform you the release of Claroline 1.6 Beta. Thanks to many suggestions and contributions of the Claroline community, a lot of new functionalities and improvements will be available in this new version. This beta version is not aimed for production. See new features highlights page and try it on Claroline 1.6 beta demo website.

CAMPUS@Rouen, the online teaching center from the University of Rouen, was previously working on a platform based on Ganesha. This academic year, they have decided to switch to Claroline. The opening was sheduled for November. The campus is now available at http://www.univ-rouen.fr/CTEUR/campus/

01 Informatique is a French magazine aimed to IT Managers. The last number (1788) reports the testimony of the Mine School of Nantes introducing e-learning practices into the scholarship.

"Two years ago, we choose the free solution Claroline, which allows teachers to easily put on line all their documentary bases on the intranet."

According to the article, the time dedicated to certain fields has been divided by four with still some gain on learning.

The article is available on line at http://www.01net.com/article/256164.html

The Reload group has made a comparative article on SCORM and IMS import and interoperability between several opensource and proprietary LMS, including Claroline. See this article here.

The Reload Project includes a well known Open Source SCORM Player and Editor. SCORM (for Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a public standard followed by major e-Learning actors to build interoperable and structured learning content.This standard is used in the learning path tool of Claroline since the version 1.5.

This new release fixes the last known bugs communicated by the Claroline user community. Every tools have been widely tested, stabilised and securised. We highly recommand any campus currently using Claroline 1.5 or 1.5.1 to upgrade to this minor release that will increase its reliability.

Note : people having already installed claroline 1.5.0 or 1.5.1. on their server just have to copy the new claroline archive on the old one to upgrade their system.