| Product Name |
Claroline 1.8.1 |
| Developer Name |
Claroline |
| URL |
http://www.claroline.net
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| Review Date |
November 30, 2006 |
| Forums |
Claroline 1.8.1 Discussions |
| Reviewer |
Email Review Staff
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| Communication Tools |
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| Discussion Forum |
- Students can enable or disable posts to be sent to their email.
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| Discussion Management |
- Instructors can allow students to create discussion groups.
- Instructors can set up moderated discussions where all posts are screened.
- Posts may be peer reviewed by other students.
- Instructors can view statistical summaries of discussions displaying participation which can be used to generate grades.
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| File Exchange |
- Students can submit assignments using drop boxes.
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| Internal Email |
- Instructors can email the entire class at once at a single address or alias.
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| Online Journal/Notes |
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| Real-time Chat |
- The chat tool supports unlimited simultaneous group discussions
- The system creates archive logs for all chat rooms.
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| Whiteboard |
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| Productivity Tools |
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| Bookmarks |
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| Calendar/Progress Review |
- Instructors can post announcements to a course announcement page.
- Students have a personal home page that lists all courses in which the student is enrolled, new email and all course and system-wide events from their personal calendar.
- Students can subscribe to RSS feeds to be notified of changes to materials.
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| Searching Within Course |
- Students can search all discussion threads.
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| Work Offline/Synchronize |
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| Orientation/Help |
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| Student Involvement Tools |
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| Groupwork |
- Instructors can assign students to groups.
- The system can randomly create groups of a certain size or a set number of groups.
- Students can self-select groups.
- Each group can be given group-specific assignments or activities.
- Groups may be private or instructors can monitor groups.
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| Community Networking |
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| Student Portfolios |
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| Administration Tools |
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| Authentication |
- Administrators can allow guest access to all courses.
- The system can authenticate against an external LDAP server.
- The system can authenticate using the Kerberos protocol.
- The system supports Shibboleth.
- The system supports the Central Authentication Service (CAS).
- The system can authenticate against IMAP, POP3 or secure NNTP.
- Administrators can set up fail-through authentication against a secondary source (e.g. the system's own database) in the event that the primary source (e.g. LDAP server ) fails.
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| Course Authorization |
- The system supports restricting access based on roles and roles can also be customizedby the service provider.
- Administrators can create an unlimited number of custom organizational units and roles with specific access privileges to course content and tools.
- Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses.
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| Registration Integration |
- Instructors can add students to their courses manually or allow students to self-register.
- Administrators can batch add students to the system using a delimited text file.
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| Hosted Services |
- The product provider offers a hosted solution.
- The product provider offers only a hosted solution.
- Hosting and support services from Commercial Affiliates.
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| Course Delivery Tools |
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| Test Types |
- Multiple choice
- Multiple answer
- Matching
- Fill-in the blank
- Questions can contain other media elements (images, videos, audio)
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| Automated Testing Management |
- The system can randomize the questions and answers.
- Instructors can create self-assessments.
- Instructors can set a time limit on a test.
- Instructors can permit multiple attempts.
- The students are allowed to review past attempts of a quiz.
- Instructors can specify whether correct results are shown as feedback
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| Automated Testing Support |
- Instructors can create personal test banks.
- Questions can be imported from external test banks that support QTI.
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| Online Marking Tools |
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| Online Gradebook |
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| Course Management |
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| Student Tracking |
- Instructors can track the frequency and duration of student access to individual course components.
- Instructors can get reports showing the time and date and frequency students as an aggregated group accessed course content.
- Instructors can get reports showing the number of times, time, date, frequency and IP address of each student who accessed course content, discussion forums, course assessments, and assignments.
- Usage statistics can be aggregated across courses or across the institution.
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| Content Development Tools |
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| Accessibility Compliance |
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| Content Sharing/Reuse |
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| Course Templates |
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| Customized Look and Feel |
- Institutions can create their own look and feel templates across the entire system, including their own institutional logos, headers, and footers.
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| Instructional Design Tools |
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| Instructional Standards Compliance |
- IMS Content Packaging 1.1.3
- IMS Content Packaging 1.1.4
- IMS QTI 2.0
- SCORM 1.2
- SCORM 1.3
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| Hardware/Software |
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| Client Browser Required |
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| Database Requirements |
- The system supports MySQL.
- The application requires only one database and can coexist with tables from other applications.
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| UNIX Server |
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| Windows Server |
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| Company Details/Licensing |
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| Company Profile |
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| Costs / Licensing |
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| Open Source |
- The software is distributed under one of the OSI-approved licenses.
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| Optional Extras |
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