Subject: Re: [Fwd: suggets 2 open source software for including in edubuntu and/or ubuntu] - msg#00083

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Hi all,

I did mention Claroline some times ago. As being involved in the project for now two years, we though great to see it distributed with Edubuntu too.
I started the debian package for Claroline some times ago but I have to confess that it took me quiet a lot of time and I am not even sure about the quality of the result, if anyone want to help in this, I can send him/her what I did, (please contact me then). I work in a Belgian research center where we received fundings to collaborate to the development of Claroline. It has been several months that I am trying to convince my bosses to release some time of one our best developer (who has done that yet before) to make this debian package, I hope this will be done soon.

It also has more of a post-18
focus than Moodle these days

Lots of european high schools use Claroline as well (12-18 years old students) I don't believe this is true. Claroline is easier to use. Moodle has a different approach and can do most of the things you can do with Claroline. But what I hear from people switching and satisfied with Claroline is that it is easier to take in hand for a (novice) teacher, just simpler to install and to use. And this point is critical when you set up a new LMS and want to see users starting to use it efficiently. By the way, I honestly believe Moodle is a very good tool too.

eXe is well worth including in my view. It's browser based, but runs via
a localhost server in its default setup - see
http://eduforge.org/projects/exe/

For beeing looking for opensource SCORM creation tools for now two years (to suggest them to Claroline users), I also do believe this tool is the most promizing tool available for now. We have been in contact with their developers, they are very active and we liked very much the philosophy of their tool. It works great in most opensource LMS.

Claroline provides much the same core functionality as Moodle, but has a
smaller user and developer community.

That is true. But we are doing our best ;-) ! translated in 31 languages, we know about more than 520 places (university and schools) using it in 68 countries : http://www.claroline.net/worldwide.htm The french and spanish speaking communities are the biggest. Our download rate has increased of more or less 50% during this year 2005.

Regards,

Guillaume (guim on the IRC chan)

Jane Weideman wrote:

Hi list,

It seems our biggest and most active Edubuntu community is in Chile, and
I suspect Mauricio has a lot to do with that ;)

I know Claroline has been mentioned before and I think they may have a
new release since they were last looked at, so I thought I'd pass this
message along.

Regards
JaneW

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Christian Caneo Camps <ccaneoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jelkner@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: janew@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: suggets 2 open source software for including in edubuntu and/or
ubuntu
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:24:34 -0300

Hi
I test ubuntu and edubuntu, great work
I want to make a proposal

I use 2 open source software that I think might been include in edubuntu
distribution by default or at leat make the deb package for a leater and
easy install

http://exelearning.org/
http://www.claroline.net

This software are for teachers , academic and tutors , therefore for
student

eXe it's for design and authoring of learning resources for the web
claroline it's a LMS , use scorm package (eXe make scorm package that
import to claroline)


sorry for my english I am for Chile

regards

Christian Caneo Camps

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