2. CLAROLINE.NET
Let’s build knowledge together
Consortium Claroline 2007
Origins and actual situation
► Created in 2001 at the UCL,
Catholic University of Louvain,
Belgium
► Developed by the University
Institute of Pedagogy and
Multimedia from the UCL, and
the CERDECAM (Research
Center of the ECAM, Belgium)
► Supported by the Région
wallonne in Belgium
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Consortium Claroline 2007
Claroline Consortium
►International non-profit association
►Created on May 23, 2007 at the annual conference of
Claroline users in Vigo, Spain
►Objectives : federating the users’ community and
organizing the platform promotion and development
►Five founder institutions :
• Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci, Belgium
• Universidade de Vigo, Spain
• Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada
• Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
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Let’s build knowledge together
Consortium Claroline 2007
Claroline specificities
►Simplicity
• Intuitive handling
• No specific technical
skills required
►Stability and security
• Used by hundreds of
institutions worldwide
5. CLAROLINE.NET
Let’s build knowledge together
Consortium Claroline 2007
Claroline in figures
• More than 800 referenced platforms
around the world
• 84 countries
• 35 languages available
6. CLAROLINE.NET
Let’s build knowledge together
Consortium Claroline 2007
Profiles
►User
►Space manager
►Administrator
►And personalized profiles
Specific using rights for each profile
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Let’s build knowledge together
Consortium Claroline 2007
Main functionalities
►For users and teachers
• Agenda
• Shared documents
• Online exercices
• Assignments
• Learning path
• Forum
• Chat
• Wiki
• …
►For administrator
• Registrations management
• Courses management
• Platform management
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Platform homepage
► Courses
categories
► User name and
password
► Self-registration
► Presentation of
the platform
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Consortium Claroline 2007
Agenda & Announcements
► Add an event in a
course
► Add an event in
the user calendar
► Send an e-mail to
several students
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Consortium Claroline 2007
Documents and links
► Download and
share documents
► Create directories,
links and html
pages
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Exercises
►Create online exercises
• Multiple choise
• Matching
• Fill in blanks
• True / false
►Fill in the exercises
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Learning path
► Create
sequences of
learning activities
► Organize
exercises and
documents
► Compatibility
with the standard
SCORM
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Consortium Claroline 2007
Assignments
► Write
assignments
and submit
them online
► Publication
area for the
students
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Consortium Claroline 2007
Forum
►Exchange of information (asynchronous) between:
• Students
• Teacher and students
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Groups
►Create groups of
students
►Own space and tools
for each group
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Consortium Claroline 2007
Users
►List of students registered to the course
►Course manager:
• Registrations (users, users list, classes)
• Definition of the headings