ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows you to easily manage learning resources in an integrated system.
ILIAS was developed to reduce the costs of using new media in education and further training and to ensure the maximum level of customer influence in the implementation of the software.
Course Management
ILIAS allows efficient creation of courses and course materials. It offers standardized tools and templates for the learning and working process including integrated navigation and administration.
Groups
Groups in ILIAS allow cooperative learning and working on the platform without additional tools. Learning groups, working groups or groups for certain fields of interest could be contructed. Groups can use all ILIAS tools like forums or file sharing. Users can create groups that are open for everyone or have specially defined access restrictions, e.g. access with a password.
Learning Content
ILIAS offers multiple ways to deliver learning content. All types of document files can be uploaded, SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2 and AICC are supported. ILIAS includes an internal authoring environment to create XML-based learning modules, that can include images, flash, applets and other web media files. It is possible to create glossaries and reuse term definitions within other learning modules.
Communication
ILIAS supports standard ways of communication as chats, forums and mails. The personal desktop includes an awareness function, that shows users, that are currently online. ILIAS also sends information via RSS to the user and displays external RSS feeds in the system.
Webcasting
Beside RSS support, ILIAS offers the ability to manage podcasts. To create a podcast is as easy as uploading a audio file to the web. The author decides whether items are available throuh the web, or within the LMS only.
Online Surveys
In ILIAS you can use surveys to easily collect information from a large number of users, for example to evaluate courses or other events. ILIAS surveys are easy to create and administer, even for non-experienced users. With a sufficient basis of survey questions, teachers could create their own evaluations fast and efficient.
Google Maps
A learning management system is a virtual meeting place for your teachers and learners. But in ILIAS users may also share their real locations to meet each other. ILIAS supports Google Maps for user profiles and adds maps of all members to groups and courses.
Personal Desktop
Every user in ILIAS has his or her own Personal Desktop. It collects all resources, that are needed by the learning to fulfill the daily learning tasks. The personal desktop features News, Personal Messages, Learning Resources, Personal Notes, Bookmarks, External Web Feeds and other information. The learner can re-arrange these blocks of information according to his needs.
Test & Assessment
ILIAS offers an integrated enviroment for the creation and enforcement of tests & assessments. This can be used for the monitoring of learning progress by the users as well as the tutors and examiners. ILIAS Test & Assessment supports multiple choice, single choice, allocation questions, cloze questions (free text, select box), ordering, matching, hot spot and more question types. more
Standard Compliance
ILIAS accomplishs the e-learning-standard SCORM 1.2 and first of all open-source-LMS, it achieves the maximum conformance level LMS-RTE3. It also supports LOM metadata standard, AICC and IMS-QTI. more
ILIAS is the first open source LMS that has been certified to be compliant to SCORM 2004 3rd edition. See the list of SCORM certified products at adlnet.org.
Authentication
ILIAS supports a lot of different authentication methods: LDAP, Shibboleth, Standard Login/Password Authentication (Database), Radius, CAS and SOAP based Authentication.
SOAP Interface
Today learning management systems are integrated into a larger environment of institutional administrative systems. To enable information exchange with these systems, ILIAS offers a SOAP interface, that allows to control almost everything in ILIAS with an external application.
NOTE: The installation notes for Mac OS X are here.
Here are some key features of "ILIAS":
· Course Management
· Group Management
· Repository with Role Based Access Control
· Learning Content (XML, SCORM, AICC)
· Standards Compliance (LOM, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, IMS-QTI, AICC)
· SCORM 1.2 RTE Level 3 Certified
· SCORM 2004 3rd Edition Certified
· Learning Progress Management
· Test & Assessment
· Survey
· Chat
· Forums
· Exercises
· RSS Support
· Podcasting
· Google Maps Support
· Authentication (LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, Radius, SOAP)
· Web Service Interface (SOAP)
Requirements:
· MAMP
· MySQL 4.1 or later
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· 7059: [Learning Module Presentation (ILIAS)] Wrong Error Message concerning Missing Page in Learning Module (akill)
· 5745: [Personal Profile] Public profile url should be "google friendly" (akill)
· 7072: [_Other] Problems with robj plugin(-slot) after update to 4.1.x (akill)
· 7081: [Personal Desktop] Errors in news caused by objects of inacitve repository object plugins (akill)
· 7085: [News (Internal)] Show member view in the edit mode (akill)
· 7129: [Web Feeds + RSS] Public page empty when rss feed is active (akill)
· 7139: [Wiki] "Tab" is violating tab rule (akill)
· 7154: [Learning Module (ILIAS) Editor] Wrong path in class.ilObjContentObject.php results in error on HTML export (akill)
· 6939: [Personal Desktop] Could not find entry in modules.xml or services.xml for (akill)
· 7172: [Mail] User subfolder icons do not show in mail tree view (akill)
· 7173: [Meta Data] Russian Federation is missing in country drop down (akill)
· 7084: [Groups] Fatal error: show member view after adding (smeyer)
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