New ILIAS versions

ILIAS 3.9 PUBLISHED

With the new version 3.9 ILIAS is the first open source LMS that supports SCORM 2004 and allows to run the didactical more sophisticated learning modules of this latest SCORM standard. Other new features are:

• Videos in mediacasts
• Manual sorting of category entries
• Upload of multiple files
• Copyright management incl. Creative Commons support
• Extension of test system
• Improvements of discussion forums
• Extended language maintenance
• Extension of LDAP authentication

For more information and the download link please have a look in the

For bug reports please use our bug tracker at: http://www.ilias.de/mantis
Comments are welcome in our forum.

NEW BUGFIX RELEASE 3.8.4

The ILIAS open source team has also published a new bugfix release 3.8.4. Some changes have been done related to the news functionality due to usability reasons. For more information please have a look in the release report.

When updating your installation please follow the instructions for
ILIAS in section 3 of the general installation instructions.

For bug reports please use our bug tracker at: http://www.ilias.de/mantis
Comments are welcome in our forum.

NEW VERSION OF OPEN OFFICE ADD-ON eLAIX

Boldt-Media has published a new version of the Open Office Add-on eLAIX that allows to create ILIAS learning modules easily out of Office documents. The new eLAIX 2.0 RC1 release offers several bugfixes, additional formatting options and exports even huge office documents much faster.

You find more information about eLAIX incl. software download on the eLAIX homepage at: http://boldt-media.de/index.php/elaix-news.html. There you find also information about the new eLAIX premium membership that offers you additional support. A list of possible eLAIX extensions that still needs funding is published there too.

ILIAS ONLINE DOCUMENTATION IIC

Content and layout of the online documentation for ILIAS (www.ilias.de/docu) has been revised. The documentation webpage is now called

ILIAS INFORMATION CENTER (IIC)

and contains all important information for using the ILIAS-LMS:

• General information about ILIAS, e.g. roadmap and release reports, known installations, skins and layouts
• User documentation for learner, authors, tutors and administrators
• Information and guidelines for developing and maintaining the software
• Information about the Open Office extension eLAIX
• Additional software and extensions for ILIAS, e.g. Mediawiki patch or ILIAS management console

At the time being, the team is also preparing an area for exchanging
didactical scenarios and experiences.

New ILIAS Version 3.7

The ILIAS open source team has recently published the new ILIAS version 3.7. It offers a lot of new or improved features like:

• Scalable and accessible layout
• Events and learning plan for courses
• LaTeX support for learning modules, tests and fora
• New test question types ‘Numeric’, ‘Text Subset’ and anonymous tests (in public section)
• CAS and SOAP authentication support
• PayPal payment

More information about ILIAS 3.7 and download of current 3.7 releases are in the release report!

Creating ILIAS Learning Modules Offline with eLAIX

The open source learning management system ILIAS offers an integrated authoring system to create learning modules online without no additional software. But even offline creation of ILIAS learing modules is possible thanks to the OpenOffice extension “iLEX”. Now this tool has been redesigned and published as “eLAIX” by Harry Boldt.

eLAIX is a real OpenOffice-AddOn that allows you to convert OpenOffice.org text documents into ILIAS 3 learning packages. After the conversion an exported eLAIX package can be imported into ILIAS as a ready to go learning unit. It is possible to edit such a learning module with the ILIAS online authoring tool as well.
Like OpenOffice.org, eLAIX is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS and is published under the GPL. The software is available at www.boldt-media.de.

With eLAIX you can:

• create ILIAS learning units without the need of beeing online,
• easily structure, format and arrange content with a professional Office Suite,
• transfer a document to an ILIAS importable learning package with a mouseclick.
• easily transfer existing documents like MS Word documents to the ILIAS platform,
• use a single document for multiple purposes (pdf, DocBook, doc, html, xml, etc.).

For more information please visit the eLAIX website at www.boldt-media.de.

ILIAS Conference at September 28, 2006

The 5th International ILIAS conference takes place at September 28, 2006 in Göttingen. This year the conference is part of the Source-Talk-Days at the Faculty of Mathematics of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. It is organised with the Stud.IP conference at September 27.

More information will be available soon at the ILIAS Conference website.

Welcome to the ILIAS Stall!

Hello and welcome to the ILIAS Stall of BAZAAR! In this place we want to discuss and give information about E-Learning with ILIAS - both in English and German. Everyone interested in this issue is welcome in this Stall and invited to participate. For more information you can also contact the Cologne BAZAAR team: Carsten Kozianka & Matthias Kunkel.