Chamilo
Chamilo 1.11 - English
Chamilo 1.11 - English
  • Introduction
  • Teacher Guide
    • Introduction
    • Getting to know Chamilo
      • What is Chamilo?
      • About this guide
      • Who is this guide for?
      • How to use this guide.
      • General usability
      • Why Chamilo?
        • Learning paradigm
        • Common interface elements
    • The Chamilo homepage
    • Registering on the platform
    • Finding your way in Chamilo
    • Course creation
    • Control course access
    • Organizing courses
      • Personal categories
      • Subscribing to other courses
      • Courses management icons
    • Course administration
    • Course homepage
      • Introductory text
      • Authoring tools
      • Interaction tools
      • Administration tools
    • First Steps: Documents
      • Create a directory
      • Quick-change of directory
      • Importing a document
      • Authoring content in Chamilo
      • Saving documents
      • Deleting a file or a directory
      • Watching course quotas
      • Slideshow
    • Interactivity: Tests
      • Introduction
      • Creating a new test
      • Feedback, score and correct answers
      • Test types
      • Adding questions to the test
      • Recycling existing questions
      • Importing: HotPotatoes, IMS/QTI2, Excel
      • Test results
    • Communication : Forums
      • Using forum views
      • Add forum categories
      • Add forum
      • Manage forum categories
      • Manage forums
      • Start a new topic
      • Manage discussion threads
      • Manage messages
      • Give your learners a score
      • Give a score from a message
      • Add a message to a thread
      • Reply to a specific message
      • Quote a previous message
      • Reply or Reply to this topic
      • Search a forum element
    • Structure: Learning paths
      • Introduction
      • Create a learning path
      • Add Learning Objects and Activities
      • Import AICC and SCORM
      • Managing learning paths
      • Prerequisites
      • Generating certificates
    • Reporting
      • Tracking learners
      • Show individual learner's details
      • Course reporting
      • Resource Reporting
      • Test/exam Reporting
    • Assignments
      • Assignment creation
      • Completion of assignments by students
      • Manage assignments
      • Setting up the assignment evaluation
      • Assignment expiry dates
      • Marking assignments
    • Users
      • Subscribe users
    • Assessments
      • Assessments pre-configuration
      • Sub-assessments
      • Adding classroom activities
      • Adding online activities
      • Weights
      • List view
      • How students generate certificates
      • Students certificates management
      • Linking assessments with skills
      • Linking certificates with learning paths
    • Wiki
      • Starting the wiki
      • Add a new linked page
      • Add a new orphan page
      • Commenting a page
      • Other wiki features
    • Links
      • Links categories
      • Links
      • Manage links
      • Links checker
    • Announcements
      • Add an announcement
      • Announcements management
    • Glossary
      • New term
      • Glossary terms management
    • Attendances
      • Create an attendance sheet
      • Recording attendances
    • Course progress
      • Create a thematic section
      • Define the thematic plan
      • Create steps for the course progress
    • Agenda
      • Adding an event to the course agenda
      • Import and export events
      • Adding an event to the personal Agenda
    • Dropbox
      • Folders
      • Send a file to specific users
      • Managing dropbox files
      • Read and add comments on a file
    • Groups
      • Create a group
      • Groups settings
      • Auto-filling a group
      • Fill a group manually
      • Getting into a group space
      • Overview /Export of group members
      • Groups management
    • Chat
      • Send a message
      • Empty messages
    • Survey
      • Survey creation
      • Add survey questions
      • Survey preview
      • Survey publication
      • Results
      • Surveys management
    • Notebook
      • Notes creation
      • Sort notes
    • Projects
      • Project creation
      • Subscribe learners to a project
      • New article/task
      • Roles management
      • Assign a role to a learner
      • Indicate the execution of a task
      • Learners' task management
    • Course settings
      • Update general course settings
      • Visibility and access
      • E-mail notifications
      • User rights
      • Chat settings
      • Learning path settings
      • Thematic advance settings
    • Backup
      • Create a backup
      • Import backup
      • Copy course
      • Empty this course
    • The Reporting tab
      • Own courses and sessions reporting
    • Social network
      • Profile information
      • Internal messaging
      • “Friends”
      • Social groups
      • My files
    • Session view
      • Courses tab
      • Learning paths tab
      • My MCQ tab
      • My statistics tab
    • Appendix
      • Glossary
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Document license
      • Document history
  • Admin Guide
    • Getting to know Chamilo
      • About this guide
      • Whom is this guide meant for?
      • How to read this guide?
    • Installation and configuration
      • Server
      • Installation wizard
        • Launching the installation wizard
          • Step 1 of 6 : Language
          • Step 2 of 6 : Prerequisites
          • Step 3 of 6: License
          • Step 4 of 6 : MySQL database parameters
          • Step 5 of 6: Configuration settings
          • Step 6 of 6 : Last check before installation
        • Last installation settings
      • Updating Chamilo
        • Download the latest stable version
        • Replace the older version by the new one
    • Backups
      • External backups
        • PhpMyAdmin database backup
        • Command-line backup
        • The Chamilo root directory
      • Saving the Chamilo interface
        • Learning path export
        • Saving a course
      • Recovering a backup
        • Learning paths
        • Courses
        • Complete recovery
    • Platform administration
      • Chamilo configuration settings
        • Portal
        • Training (admin/courses)
        • Sessions
        • Languages
          • Creating a sub-language
          • Defining one's own terms
          • Assigning the new sub-language
        • Users
        • Modules
        • HTML Editor
        • Security
        • Tuning
        • Assessments
        • Time zones
        • Reporting
        • Search
        • Stylesheets
        • Templates
        • Plugins
        • LDAP
        • CAS
        • Shibboleth
        • Facebook
      • Portal news
      • Global agenda
      • Edit portal homepage
      • Setting the registration page
      • Statistics
      • Reports
    • Users management
      • User roles
        • Learner (admin/or student)
        • The course assistant
        • The human resources manager (admin/or supervisor)
        • The course coach
        • The session coach (admin/or session tutor)
        • Teacher (admin/or trainer)
        • Sessions administrator
        • Portal administrator
        • Global administrator
        • Special case: the anonymous user
      • Users list
        • Learner
        • Teacher
        • Administrator
        • Anonymous
      • Add a user
      • Export users list
      • Import users list
      • Add groups
      • Groups list
      • Profiling
    • Courses management
      • Courses list
        • Update course details
        • Tracking and backup
      • Create a course
      • Export courses
      • Import courses list
      • Courses categories
      • Add users to course
      • Import users list
    • Sessions management
      • Use cases
        • The academic year
        • Personal tutoring
        • Corporate induction courses
      • Managing the sessions
      • Add a session
      • Sessions categories (admin/or periods)
      • Export sessions list
      • Copy from course in session to another session
      • Move users results from/to a session
      • Careers and promotions
        • Careers
        • Promotions
        • Copy
        • Use case
      • Classes
    • System
      • Special exports
      • System status
      • Data filler
      • Archive directory clean-up
    • Global features
      • Multi-URL
        • Use case – University faculties
        • Use case – Corporate branding
        • The solution
        • Installation
      • Video-conference
      • Chamilo Rapid
      • Style sheets
      • Templates
      • Web services
      • The Prestashop plugin
      • The Drupal plugin
      • The xAPI plugin
      • Logging in with OpenID
      • Securing your site with SSL / HTTPS
      • Optimization
    • Appendix
      • Frequently asked questions
        • Sending e-mails from the platform doesn't work
        • How do I prevent teachers to subscribe or unsubscribe learners into/from their courses?
        • How do I block access to the course catalog for learners?
        • How much bandwidth does the videoconference tool (admin/BigBlueButton) consume?
      • Security in Chamilo LMS
      • Database structure
      • Accessing the database
      • Configuration settings list
      • Glossary
      • Document license
      • Document history
  • Developer Guide
    • Introduction
      • About this guide
      • Who is this guide for?
      • How to use this guide
      • General usability
    • Why Chamilo?
      • Learning paradigm
      • Common interface elements
    • The Chamilo files & database structure
      • History
      • Database structure : fixed in all minor versions
      • The Chamilo LMS files structure today
      • The Chamilo LMS database structure today
      • General conventions for future database structure
    • Coding conventions
    • Theming through templates
      • Cleaning the cache
      • Structure of a page
      • Usable variables
      • Modifiers
    • Theming through CSS
      • The cascading structure
      • Style files purposes
      • The stylesheets inclusion mechanism
      • Extending the icons set
      • Default course image
      • Example procedure for new design
    • Document templates
      • Structure
    • Theming certificates
    • Customizing the online editor
    • The Chamilo logo
    • Global settings
      • Sub-languages
    • Participating to the development
      • Using Git
      • Updating you code
    • Clear the template cache
    • Fixing bugs
    • System AdministratorsWeb services
      • SOAP, REST and XML-RPC
      • Connection and security key
      • Restriction on calling IP addresses
      • Other methods
    • Extra Chamilo fields
    • Plugins
      • General workflow of plugins
      • General plugins development
      • The Dashboard
      • Language variables
    • System AdministratorsAuthentication methods
      • LDAP
      • CAS
      • Shibboleth
      • Facebook
      • OpenID
      • Custom SSO methods
    • Passwords generation
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Configuration settings list

Title

Description

Default

Platform

Organization name

The name of the organization (appears in the header on the right)

Organization URL (web address)

The URL of the institutions (the link that appears in the header on the right)

E-learning portal name

The Name of your Chamilo Portal (appears in the header)

Portal Administrator: E-mail

The e-mail address of the Platform Administrator (appears in the footer on the left)

Portal Administrator: Last Name

The Family Name of the Platform Administrator (appears in the footer on the left)

Portal Administrator: First Name

The First Name of the Platform Administrator (appears in the footer on the left)

Platform Administrator Information in footer

Show the Information of the Platform Administrator in the footer?

Session's tutor's data is shown in the footer.

Show the session's tutor reference (name and e-mail if available) in the footer?

Show teacher information in footer

Show the teacher reference (name and e-mail if available) in the footer?

Server Type

What sort of server is this? This enables or disables some specific options. On a development server there is a translation feature functional that indicates untranslated strings

Who's Online

Display the number of persons that are online?

Registration

Is registration as a new user allowed? Can users create new accounts?

Yes

Registration as Trainer

Can one register as a trainer (with the ability to create training)?

Yes

Lost password

Are users allowed to request their lost password?

Display Code in Training name

Display Training Code in training list

Display trainer in training name

Display trainer in training list

Portal Administrator: Telephone

The telephone number of the platform administrator

Enable learner view

Enable the user view, which allows a trainer or admin to see a training as a participant or user would see it

Yes

Page after login

The page which is seen by the user entering the platform

Time limit on Who Is Online

This time limit defines for how many seconds after his last action a user will be considered online

Example material on training creation

Create example material automatically when creating a new course

Account validity

A user account is valid for this number of days after creation

Use training sessions

Training sessions give a different way of dealing with training, where training have an author, a coach and learners. Each coach gives a training for a set period of time, called a training session, to a set of learners who do not mix with other learner groups attached to another training session.

Yes

Show email addresses

Show email addresses to users

Show training number

Show the number of training in each category in the training categories on the homepage

Show empty training categories

Show the categories of training on the homepage, even if they're empty

Show back links from categories/training

Show a link to go back in the training hierarchy. A link is available at the bottom of the list anyway.

Show training languages

Show the language each training is in, next to the training title, on the homepage training list

Display categories on home page

This option will display or hide training categories on the portal home page

Tabs in the header

Check the tabs you want to see appear in the header. The unchecked tabs will appear on the right hand menu on the portal homepage and my training page if these need to appear

No-reply e-mail address

This is the e-mail address to be used when an e-mail has to be sent specifically requesting that no answer be sent in return. Generally, this e-mail address should be configured on your server to drop/ignore any incoming e-mail.

User theme selection

Allow users to select their own visual theme in their profile. This will change the look of Chamilo for them, but will leave the default style of the portal intact. If a specific course or session has a specific theme assigned, it will have priority over user-defined themes.

Display closed training on login page and portal start page?

Display closed training on the login page and training start page? On the portal start page an icon will appear next to the training to quickly subscribe to the training. This will only appear on the portal start page when the user is logged in and when the user is not subscribed to the portal yet.

Show session coach

Show the global session coach name in session title box in the training list

Allow non admin to create training

Allow non administrators (trainers) to create new training in the portal

Learners access to training catalogue

Allow learners to browse the training catalogue and subscribe to available training

Enable terms and conditions

This option will display the Terms and Conditions in the register form for new users

Email alert, of creation a new course

Send an email to administrator of the platform, each time the teacher register a new course

Show link to report bug

Training validation

When "Training validation" feature is activated, a teacher is not able to create a training alone. He/she fills a training request. The platform administrator reviews the request and approves it or rejects it.This feature relies on automated e-mail messages; set Chamilo to access an e-mail server and to use a dedicated an e-mail account.

Training validation - a link to the terms and conditions

This is the URL to the "Terms and Conditions" document that is valid for making a training request. If the address here is set, before sending a training request the user should read and agree with these terms and conditions.If you activate Chamilo's module "Terms and Conditions" and if you want its URL to be used, then leave this setting empty.

Enable watermark in PDF export

By enabling this option, you can upload an image or a text that will be automatically added as watermark to all PDF exports of documents on the system.

Enable watermark definition by course

When this option is enabled, teachers can define their own watermark for the documents in their courses.

PDF watermark text

This text will be added as a watermark to the documents exports as PDF.

Show classes to users

Show the classes to users. Classes are a feature that allow you to register/unregister groups of users into a session or a course directly, reducing the administrative hassle. When you pick this option, learners will be able to see in which class they are through their social network interface.

Font resize accessibility feature

Enable this option to show a set of font resize options on the top-right side of your campus. This will allow visually impaired to read their course contents more easily.

Hide courses list in sessions

When showing the session block in your courses page, hide the list of courses inside that session (only show them inside the specific session screen).

Courses

Training homepage design

How would you like the homepage of a training to look?

Tools shortcuts

Show the tool shortcuts in the banner?

Group categories

Allow trainers to create categories in the Groups tool?

Default hard disk space

What is the available disk space? You can override the quota for specific training through: platform administration > Training > modify

100000000

Group disk space available

What is the default hard disk space available for a groups documents tool?

5000000

Allow users profiling inside training

Can a trainer define learner profile fields to retrieve additional information?

Display training navigation menu

Display a navigation menu that quickens access to the tools

Enable tool introduction

Enable introductions on each tool's homepage

Training homepage breadcrumb

The breadcrumb is the horizontal links navigation system usually in the top left of your page. This option selects what you want to appear in the breadcrumb on courses' homepages

Default forum view

What should be the default option when creating a new forum. Any trainer can however choose a different view for every individual forum

Survey e-mail sender (no-reply)

Should the survey invitations use the coach email address or the no-reply address defined in the main configuration section?

Allow training themes

Allows training graphical themes and makes it possible to change the style sheet used by a training to any of the possible style sheets available to Chamilo. When a user enters the training, the style sheet of the training will have priority over the user's own style sheet and the platform's default style sheet.

Show session data title

Show session data comment

Show glossary terms in documents

From here you can configure how to add links to the glossary terms from the documents

Show the courses descriptions in the catalogue

Show the courses descriptions as an integrated popup when clicking on a course info icon in the courses catalogue

Allow coaches to edit inside training sessions

Allow coaches to edit inside training sessions comment

Show the glossary terms in extra tools

From here you can configure how to add the glossary terms in extra tools as learning path and exercise tool

Go directly to the course after login

When a user is registered in one course, go directly to the course after login

Minimum score of exercises

Define a minimum score (generally 0) for all the exercises on the platform. This will define how final results are shown to users and teachers.

Maximum score of exercises

Define a maximum score (generally 10,20 or 100) for all the exercises on the platform. This will define how final results are shown to users and teachers.

Enable Quiz scenario

From here you will be able to create exercises that propose different questions depending in the user's answers.

Languages

Portal Language

Hide DLTT Mark-up

Hide the [= ... =] mark-up when a language variable is not translated

Yes

Character set

The character set is what pilots the way specific languages can be displayed in Chamilo. If you use Russian or Japanese characters, for example, you might want to change this. For all English, Latin and west-european characters, the default ISO-8859-15 should be al-right.

UTF-8

Allow definition and use of sub-languages

By enabling this option, you will be able to define variations for each of the language terms used in the platform's interface, in the form of a new language based on and extending an existing language. You'll find this option in the languages section of the administration panel.

Users

Profile

Which parts of the profile can be changed?

Registration: required fields

Which fields are required (besides name, first name, login and password)

Personal Agenda

Can the learner add personal events to the Agenda?

Extended profile

If this setting is set to 'True', a user can fill in following (optional) fields: 'My competences', 'My diplomas', 'What I am able to teach' and 'My personal open area'

Extended profile fields in registration

Which of the following fields of the extended profile have to be available in the user registration process? This requires that the extended profile is activated (see above).

Required extended profile fields in registration

Which of the following fields of the extended profile are required in the user registration process? This requires that the extended profile is activated and that the field is also available in the registration form (see above).

Modules

Modules active upon training creation

Which tools have to be activated (visible) by default when a new training is created?

Use a title for the document name

This will allow the use of a title for document names instead of document_name.ext

Yes

Deleted files cannot be restored

Deleting a file in the documents tool permanently deletes it. The file cannot be restored

No

Drop box: Can documents be overwritten

Can the original document be overwritten when a user or trainer uploads a document with the name of a document that already exist? If you answer yes then you loose the conversioning mechanism.

Drop box: Maximum file size of a document

How big (in bytes) can a drop box document be?

100000000

Drop box: Upload to own drop box space?

Allow trainers and users to upload documents to their drop box without sending the documents to themselves

Drop box: Learner Illegal HTML tag removed : Learner

Allow users to send documents to other users (peer 2 peer). Users might use this for less relevant documents also (mp3, tests solutions, ...). If you disable this then the users can send documents to the trainer only.

Drop box: allow group

Users can send files to groups

Drop box: Allow mailing

With the mailing functionality you can send each learner a personal document

Active online email editor

If this option is activated, clicking on an e-mail address will open an online mail editor.

No

Display the small month calendar in the agenda tool

This setting enables or disables the small month calendar that appears in the left column of the agenda tool

Display the upcoming events in the agenda tool

This setting enables or disables the upcoming events that appears in the left column of the agenda tool of the course

Number of upcoming events that have to be displayed.

The number of upcoming events that have to be displayed in the agenda. This requires that the upcoming event functionality is activated (see setting above).

Booking

The booking system allows you to book resources for your training (rooms, tables, books, screens, ...). You need this tool to be enabled (through the Admin) to have it appear in the user menu.

No

Internal messaging tool

Enabling the internal messaging tool allows users to send messages to other users of the platform and to have a messaging inbox.

Yes

Social network tool (Facebook-like)

The social network tool allows users to define relations with other users and, by doing so, to define groups of friends. Combined with the internal messaging tool, this tool allows tight communication with friends, inside the portal environment.

Yes

Allow students to download directories

Allow students to pack and download a complete directory from the document tool

Allow users to copy files from a course in your personal file area

Allows users to copy files from a course in your personal file area, visible through the Social Network or through the HTML editor when they are out of a course

Allow users to create groups in social network

Allow users to create groups in social network

Allow send message to all platform users

Allow send message to all platform users

Max upload file size in messages

Maximum size for file uploads in the messaging tool (in Bytes)

Create and edit SVG files

This option allows you to create and edit SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) multilayer online, as well as export them to PNG format images.

Allow students to export web documents to PDF format in the documents and wiki tools

This feature is enabled by default, but in case of server overload abuse it, or specific learning environments, might want to disable it for all courses.

Show users folders in the documents tool

This option allows you to show or hide to teachers the folders that the system generates for each user who visits the tool documents or send a file through the web editor. [...]

Show in documents tool all folders containing multimedia resources supplied by default

Multimedia file folders containing files supplied by default organized in categories of video, audio, image and flash animations to use in their courses. Although you make it invisible into the document tool, you can still use these resources in the platform web editor.

Show the history folder of chat conversations

This will show to teacher the folder that contains all sessions that have been made in the chat, the teacher can make them visible or not students and use them as a resource

Enable online services to conversion text in audio

Online tool to convert text into speech. Uses speech synthesis systems and technology to provide voice resources.

Hide tools from teachers

Check the tools you want to hide from teachers. This will not prohibit access to the tool (no security purpose), but will make it invisible for the teachers in order to avoid confusion (with too many tools - usability purpose).

Enable external Pixlr services

Pixlr allow you to edit, adjust and filter your photos with features similar to Photoshop. It is the ideal complement to process images based on bitmaps

Activate recorder - voice player Nanogong

Nanogong is a recorder - voice player that allows you to record your voice and send it to the platform or download it into your hard drive. It also lets you play what you recorded. The students only need a microphone and speakers, and accept the load applet when first loaded. It is very useful for language learners to hear his voice after listening the correct pronunciation proposed by teacher in another wav or mp3 voice file.

HTML Editor

Public pages compliance to WAI

WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is an initiative to make the web more accessible. By selecting this option, the public pages of Chamilo will become more accessible. This also means that some content on the portal's public pages might appear differently.

Advanced file manager for WYSIWYG editor

Enable advanced file manager for WYSIWYG editor? This will add a considerable amount of additional options to the file manager that opens in a pop-up window when uploading files to the server.

mimeTEX mathematical editor

Enable mimeTeX mathematical editor. The activation is not fully realized if not previously installed on the server the executable MimeTex file. See the Chamilo installation guide.

ASCIIMathML mathematical editor

Enable ASCIIMathML mathematical editor

Mathematical graphics editor ASCIIsvg

Activation of mathematical graphics editor (ASCIIsvg).

Load the file ASCIIMathML.js in all the system's pages

Activate this setting if you want to show ASCIIMathML-based mathematical formulas and ASCIIsvg-based mathematical graphics not only in the "Documents" tool, but elsewhere in the system.

Allow students to insert videos from YouTube

Enable the possibility that students can insert YouTube videos

Block students copy and paste

Block students the ability to copy and paste into the WYSIWYG editor

Buttons bar extended

Enable button bars extended when the WYSIWYG editor is maximized

WIRIS mathematical editor

Enable WIRIS mathematical editor. Installing this plugin you get WIRIS editor and WIRIS CAS. [...]

Spell check

Enable spell check

Forcing to Wiki to paste as plain text

This will prevent many hidden tags, incorrect or non-standard, copied from other texts to stop corrupting the text of the Wiki after many issues; but will lose some features while editing.

Activate Google maps

Activate the button to insert Google maps. Activation is not fully realized if not previously edited the file main/inc/lib/fckeditor/myconfig.php and added a Google maps API key.

Activate Image maps

Activate the button to insert Image maps. This allows you to associate URLs to areas of an image, creating hotspots.

Allow insertion of widgets

This allows you to embed on your web pages your favourite videos and applications such as vimeo or slideshare and all sorts of widgets and gadgets

Security

Type of filtering on document uploads

Whether you want to use the blacklist or whitelist filtering. See blacklist or whitelist description below for more details.

Blacklist - setting

The blacklist is used to filter the files extensions by removing (or renaming) any file which extension figures in the blacklist below. The extensions should figure without the leading dot (.) and separated by semi-column (;) like the following: exe;com;bat;scr;php. Files without extension are accepted. Letter casing (uppercase/lowercase) doesn't matter.

Whitelist - setting

The whitelist is used to filter the files extensions by removing (or renaming) any file which extension does NOT figure in the whitelist below. It is generally considered as a safer but more restrictive approach to filtering. The extensions should figure without the leading dot (.) and separated by semi-column (;) like the following: htm;html;txt;doc;xls;ppt;jpg;jpeg;gif;sxw . Files without extension are accepted. Letter casing (uppercase/lowercase) doesn't matter.

htm;html;jpg;jpeg;gif;png;swf;avi;mpg;mpeg;mov;flv;doc;docx;xls;xlsx;ppt;pptx;odt;odp;ods;pdf

Filtering behaviour (skip/rename)

If you choose to skip, the files filtered through the blacklist or whitelist will not be uploaded to the system. If you choose to rename them, their extension will be replaced by the one defined in the extension replacement setting. Beware that renaming doesn't really protect you, and may cause name collision if several files of the same name but different extensions exist.

Replacement extension

Enter the extension that you want to use to replace the dangerous extensions detected by the filter. Only needed if you have selected a filter by replacement.

dangerous

Permissions for new directories

The ability to define the permissions settings to assign to every newly created directory lets you improve security against attacks by hackers uploading dangerous content to your portal. The default setting (0770) should be enough to give your server a reasonable protection level. The given format uses the UNIX terminology of Owner-Group-Others with Read-Write-Execute permissions.

Permissions for new files

The ability to define the permissions settings to assign to every newly created file lets you improve security against attacks by hackers uploading dangerous content to your portal. The default setting (0550) should be enough to give your server a reasonable protection level. The given format uses the UNIX terminology of Owner-Group-Others with Read-Write-Execute permissions. If you use Oogie, take care that the user who launch OpenOffice can write files in the course folder.

OpenID authentication

Enable the OpenID URL-based authentication (displays an additional login form on the homepage)

Register users by Coach

Coach users may create users to the platform and subscribe users to a session.

Extend rights for coach

Activate this option will give the coach the same permissions as the trainer on authoring tools

Extend rights for coaches on surveys

Activate this option will allow the coaches to create and edit surveys

Allow User Course Subscription By Course Administrator

Activate this option will allow course administrator to subscribe users inside a course

Single Sign On

Enabling Single Sign On allows you to connect this platform as a slave of an authentication master, for example a Drupal website with the Drupal-Chamilo plugin or any other similar master setup.

Domain of the Single Sign On server

The domain of the Single Sign On server (the web address of the other server that will allow automatic registration to Chamilo). This should generally be the address of the other server without any trailing slash and without the protocol, e.g. www.example.com

Single Sign On server authentication URL

The address of the page that deals with the authentication verification. For example /?q=user in Drupal's case.

Single Sign On server's logout URL

The address of the page on the server that logs the user out. This option is useful if you want users logging out of Chamilo to be automatically logged out of the authentication server.

Single Sign On server's protocol

The protocol string to prefix the Single Sign On server's domain (we recommend you use https:// if your server is able to provide this feature, as all non-secure protocols are dangerous for authentication matters)

Tuning

Split users' upload directory

On high-load portals, where a lot of users are registered and send their pictures, the upload directory (main/upload/users/) might contain too many files for the file-system to handle (it has been reported with more than 36000 files on a Debian server). [...]

Assessments

Competence thresholds colouring

Tick the box to enable Competences thresholds

Competence levels labelling

Tick the box to enable Competence levels labelling

Threshold

The threshold (in %) under which scores will be coloured red

Display score upper limit

Tick the box to show the score's upper limit

Number of decimals

Allows you to set the number of decimals allowed in a score

0

LDAP

Main LDAP server address

The IP address or URL of your main LDAP server.

Main LDAP server's port.

The port on which the main LDAP server will respond (usually 389). This is a mandatory setting.

LDAP domain

This is the LDAP domain (dc) that will be used to find the contacts on the LDAP server. For example: dc=xx, dc=yy, dc=zz

Replicate server address

When the main server is not available, this server will be accessed. Leave blank or use the same value as the main server if you don't have a replicate server.

Replicate server's port

The port on which the replicate server will respond.

Search term

This term will be used to filter the search for contacts on the LDAP server. If you are unsure what to put in here, please refer to your LDAP server's documentation and configuration.

LDAP version

Please select the version of the LDAP server you want to use. Using the right version depends on your LDAP server's configuration.

Tutor identification field

Authentication login

If you are using an LDAP server that does not support or accept anonymous access, fill the following field with the user login that should be used. Do not include "cn=". Leave empty for anonymous access.

Authentication password

If you are using an LDAP server that does not support or accept anonymous access, fill the following field with the user password that should be used.

Tutor identification value

When a check is done on the tutor field given above, this value has to be inside one of the tutor fields sub-elements for the user to be considered as a trainer. If you leave this field blank, the only condition is that the field exists for this LDAP user to be considered as a trainer. As an example, the field could be "memberof" and the value to search for could be "CN=G_TRAINER,OU=Trainer".

Time zones

Use users time zones

Enable the possibility for users to select their own time zone. The time zone field should be set to visible and changeable in the Profiling menu in the administration section before users can choose their own.

Time zone value

This is the time zone for this portal. If left empty, it will use the server's time zone. If configured, all times on the system will be shown based on this time zone. This setting has a lower priority than the user's time zone, if enabled and selected by the

Search

Full text search

This feature allows you to index most of the documents uploaded to your portal, then provide a search feature for users. [...]

No

Style sheets

Stylesheets selection

Templates

Templates management

Plugins

Search

BigBlueButton

Date

Dashboard plugins

Student Graph Block

Display information about students inside platform with graph

Evaluation Graph Block

Display maximum, minimum and average evaluations about links inside assessments tool

Student Block

Display information about students inside platform

Teacher Block

Display information about teachers inside platform

Session Block

Display information about sessions inside platform

Teacher Graph Block

Display information about teachers inside platform with graph

Gradebook & Attendances

Access to attendances in a Gradebook

Gradebook & Attendances

Display information about courses inside platform

Extra (when BigBlueButton is enabled)

BigBlueButton video-conference tool

Choose whether you want to enable the BigBlueButton video-conference tool. Once enabled, it will show as an additional course tool in all courses' homepage, and teachers will be able to launch a conference at any time. [...]

No

BigBlueButton server host

This is the name of the server where your BigBlueButton server is running. Might be localhost, an IP address (e.g. 192.168.13.54) or a domain name (e.g. my.video.com).

Security key of the BigBlueButton server

This is the security key of your BigBlueButton server, which will allow your server to authenticate the Chamilo installation. Refer to the BigBlueButton documentation to locate it.

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A check will be done on this LDAP contact field on new users insertion. If this field is not empty, the user will be considered as a tutor and inserted in Chamilo as such. If you want all your users to be recognised as simple users, leave this field empty. You can modify this behaviour by changing the code. Please read the for more information.

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