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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Interaction tools

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The objective of the interaction section is to group tools which facilitate communication between learners as well as between learner and teacher. Unlike the Authoring tools which are primarily for teacher use, The Interaction tools are provided mainly for use by other users also, to support their learning.

Illustration: Interaction tools

Agenda

Dropbox

Groups

Assignments

Wiki

Forum

Users

Chat

Surveys

Notebook

Video-conference

This tool provides users with a comprehensive diary/calendar tool to which they can add events etc.

Users can use the course dropbox to share their own documents with others on the course.

Use this to create groups within in the course and manage access to course tools.

Create assignments for learners to complete within the Chamilo platform, or to complete externally and upload for evaluation by the teacher. The assignments tool integrates fully with the reporting and assessments tools and allows for quick and easy monitoring of assignment submissions and results.

The Wiki provides a handy tool for collaboration between users, be they teachers or learners, through providing a clear and simple interface for the joint production of a class document.

The very fully featured forum tool allows for the creation and management of forums for use by course members, and includes the facility to quote student posts to teaching forums and edit, mark or annotate their work in whatever way the teacher judges will best support students' learning.

This tool allows learners to view who else is subscribed to the course, and teachers to manage course users, subscribing teachers and users, and importing and exporting course lists as required. The users tool also integrates with the Groups tool.

Chamilo provides a simple text-chat facility allowing users to chat with other users on-line in the platform.

The fully featured survey tool a powerful means of inviting users on the platform to quickly and easily offer comment and feedback for the evaluation and development of courses. The tool also supports the analysis of results collected from participants.

Sometimes a learner or teacher just wants to keep personal notes relevant to his or coursework. The notebook tool provides a simple means for users to write and store and organize such notes within the platform for their own use, using the on-line editor. Notes created by this tool are private: no user has access to the notes of another user.

It is now relatively easy, using a local video-conference server, to install the video-conference tool within a Chamilo course, although it remains an external extension which is not always available in a classic portal. Chamilo 1.9 supports BigBlueButton 0.8, open-source conferencing software which supports recording of the white board and audio from a conference. The video sessions can later be made available within Chamilo itself as a video library inside the course. From a teacher's point of view, it's worth lobbying your administrator to set it up!