Administration Guide

Welcome to the Chamilo 3.0 Administration Guide. This guide is designed for platform administrators responsible for installing, configuring, and managing a Chamilo instance.

What you can do as an Administrator

As a Chamilo administrator, you manage:

• Installation and configuration — Set up Chamilo on your server, configure storage, email, and environment settings

• Users — Create, import, and manage user accounts, roles, and permissions

• Courses and sessions — Oversee course creation, manage the course catalog, and configure training sessions

• Platform — Languages, portal news, the global agenda, and the Pages CMS tool

• Platform settings — Configure portal behavior, security, performance, and feature availability

• Analytics — Platform statistics, learning analytics, and corporate/HR reporting

• Skills — Define competency badges and link them to gradebook results

• System — Server maintenance tools, self-update, storage inspection, and branding

• Rooms — Manage physical sites and bookable training rooms

• Security — Monitor login attempts, review flagged intrusion attempts, check password strength, and verify file integrity

• Plugins — Install, configure, and manage platform extensions

• Authentication — Set up external login systems (OAuth2, LDAP, CAS, SCIM)

• Integrations — Connect Chamilo to video conferencing, LTI tools, AI providers, and more

• Maintenance — Perform backups, monitor system health, and manage storage

How this guide is organized

1. Getting Started — An overview of the administration interface

2. Installation — Server requirements, installation wizard, and initial configuration

3. Users — Managing user accounts, roles, groups, and profiles

4. Courses — Managing courses, categories, and import/export

5. Sessions — Organizing time-bound training cohorts

6. Platform — Languages, portal news, the global agenda, and the Pages CMS tool

7. Platform Settings — Configuring every aspect of the platform

8. Analytics — Statistics, learning analytics, and corporate/HR reporting

9. Skills — Competency badges and gradebook-driven awards

10. System — Server tools, self-update, storage inspection, and branding

11. Rooms — Branches and bookable training rooms

12. Security — Security monitoring and auditing tools

13. Plugins — Managing platform extensions

14. Health Check — Live configuration checks

15. Other Admin Blocks — Chamilo.org links, version check, support, and news

16. Authentication — Setting up external authentication providers

17. Integrations — Connecting third-party services

18. Multi-URL — Running multiple portals from a single installation

19. Performance Tuning — Optimizing the platform for speed and scale

20. Maintenance — Backups, system status, and cleanup

Accessing the Administration Panel

After logging in as an administrator, click Administration in the sidebar to access the administration panel.