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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.

Free EOS is a GNU Linux distribution build by Easter-eggs at the initative of AFPA (French National Association for Continuing Education). This distribution is mainly aimed to French people or French institutions. The project motto is "Fast, simple and Good". And that perfectly fits the claroline team philosophy ! The last release of Free EOS (1.3) provides our new Claroline 1.5.1 integrated among other php packages like Spip or phpBB.

More at http://free-eos.org

The September issue (64) of the Linux magazine French edition reports in a 3 pages article an experience of a complete training in Computer Science using Claroline in the town of Tbilissi (Georgia). This training is set in partnership with the University of Versailles (France). The courses are partially provided to the Tblissi students by the way of the Claroline server hosted in Versailles.

Angela Büchler from Technische Universität Berlin has written an updated version of the Claroline student manual in German. Thanks to her.

The document is available on the documentation section of the Claroline Web site.

To keep the Claroline manuals and documentation up to date with the development pace of our developer community, the Claroline team has decided to move the documentation to a complete new section which can be feed by the Claroline users around the world. The site has started to be fed by Guillaume Lederer, Mathieu Laurent and Philippe Dekimpe from CERDECAM and is already quite impressive. See the new documentation site

If you are interested to translate the Claroline Documentation Web site to dutch , french , german , italian or spanish , send a mail to info@claroline.net.