ILIAS Open Source Learning Management System for developing and realizing web-based e-learning
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Open Source Learning Management System for developing and realizing web-based e-learning ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows you to easily manage learning resources in an integrated system. ILIAS was developed to reduce the costs of using new media in education and further training and to ensure the maximum level of customer influence in the implementation of the software.Course ManagementILIAS allows efficient creation of courses and course materials. It offers standardized tools and templates for the learning and working process including integrated navigation and administration.GroupsGroups in ILIAS allow cooperative learning and working on the platform without additional tools. Learning groups, working groups or groups for certain fields of interest could be contructed. Groups can use all ILIAS tools like forums or file sharing. Users can create groups that are open for everyone or have specially defined access restrictions, e.g. access with a password.Learning ContentILIAS offers multiple ways to deliver learning content. All types of document files can be uploaded, SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2 and AICC are supported. ILIAS includes an internal authoring environment to create XML-based learning modules, that can include images, flash, applets and other web media files. It is possible to create glossaries and reuse term definitions within other learning modules.CommunicationILIAS supports standard ways of communication as chats, forums and mails. The personal desktop includes an awareness function, that shows users, that are currently online. ILIAS also sends information via RSS to the user and displays external RSS feeds in the system.WebcastingBeside RSS support, ILIAS offers the ability to manage podcasts. To create a podcast is as easy as uploading a audio file to the web. The author decides whether items are available throuh the web, or within the LMS only.Online SurveysIn ILIAS you can use surveys to easily collect information from a large number of users, for example to evaluate courses or other events. ILIAS surveys are easy to create and administer, even for non-experienced users. With a sufficient basis of survey questions, teachers could create their own evaluations fast and efficient.Google MapsA learning management system is a virtual meeting place for your teachers and learners. But in ILIAS users may also share their real locations to meet each other. ILIAS supports Google Maps for user profiles and adds maps of all members to groups and courses.Personal DesktopEvery user in ILIAS has his or her own Personal Desktop. It collects all resources, that are needed by the learning to fulfill the daily learning tasks. The personal desktop features News, Personal Messages, Learning Resources, Personal Notes, Bookmarks, External Web Feeds and other information. The learner can re-arrange these blocks of information according to his needs.Test & AssessmentILIAS offers an integrated enviroment for the creation and enforcement of tests & assessments. This can be used for the monitoring of learning progress by the users as well as the tutors and examiners. ILIAS Test & Assessment supports multiple choice, single choice, allocation questions, cloze questions (free text, select box), ordering, matching, hot spot and more question types. moreStandard ComplianceILIAS accomplishs the e-learning-standard SCORM 1.2 and first of all open-source-LMS, it achieves the maximum conformance level LMS-RTE3. It also supports LOM metadata standard, AICC and IMS-QTI. moreILIAS is the first open source LMS that has been certified to be compliant to SCORM 2004 3rd edition. See the list of SCORM certified products at adlnet.org.AuthenticationILIAS supports a lot of different authentication methods: LDAP, Shibboleth, Standard Login/Password Authentication (Database), Radius, CAS and SOAP based Authentication.SOAP InterfaceToday learning management systems are integrated into a larger environment of institutional administrative systems. To enable information exchange with these systems, ILIAS offers a SOAP interface, that allows to control almost everything in ILIAS with an external application. NOTE: The installation notes for Mac OS X are here. Here are some key features of "ILIAS": · Course Management · Group Management · Repository with Role Based Access Control · Learning Content (XML, SCORM, AICC) · Standards Compliance (LOM, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, IMS-QTI, AICC) · SCORM 1.2 RTE Level 3 Certified · SCORM 2004 3rd Edition Certified · Learning Progress Management · Test & Assessment · Survey · Chat · Forums · Exercises · RSS Support · Podcasting · Google Maps Support · Authentication (LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, Radius, SOAP) · Web Service Interface (SOAP) Requirements: · MAMP · MySQL 4.1 or later What's New in This Release: Test & Assessment: · Fixed problem with calculation of best test pass. The last pass was always calculated instead of the best pass · Fixed problem with calculation of question feedback. ILIAS always returned the feedback of the last test pass Repository: · Fixed Bug #4244: Full screen by category editor dosen?t work. · Fixed Bug #4239: Repository tree ordering. Learning Modules: · Fixed Bug #4289: Showing escape charactes in image legend. · Fixed Bug #4330: Wrong HTML-Code for HTML-Media-Objects (iframe) and Applets. · Fixed Bug #4266: Linking to glossaries in imagemaps. Glossaries: · Fixed Bug #4300: Error when trying to delete a definiton.

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