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Tableofcontents
Chapter1Introduction

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1.1Chamilo,whatisit?

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1.2Aboutthisguide

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1.3Whomisthisguidemeantfor?

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1.4Howtoreadthisguide?

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1.5Generalusability

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1.5.1Terminology

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Chapter2WhyChamilo?

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Chapter3TheChamilohomepage

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Chapter4Registerontheplatform

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Chapter5Findingone'swayinChamilo

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Chapter6Coursecreation

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Chapter7Controlcourseaccess

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Chapter8Coursesorganizing

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8.1Coursesmanagementicons

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Chapter9Courseadministration

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Chapter10Coursehomepage

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10.1Introductiontext

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10.2Productiontool

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10.2.1Coursedescription

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10.2.2Documents

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10.2.3Exercises

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10.2.4Learningpath

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10.2.5Assessments

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10.2.6Attendances

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10.2.7Links

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10.2.8Announcements

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10.2.9Glossary

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10.2.10Courseprogress

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10.2.11Blogs

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10.2.12Search

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10.3Interactiontools

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10.3.1Agenda

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10.3.2Dropbox

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10.3.3Groups

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10.3.4Assignments

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10.3.5Wiki

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10.3.6Forum

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10.3.7Users

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10.3.8Chat

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10.3.9Surveys

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10.3.10Personalnotes

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10.3.11Videoconference

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10.4Administrationtools

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10.4.1Blogs

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10.4.2Settings

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10.4.3Tracking

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10.4.4Maintenance

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Chapter11FirstSteps:Documents

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11.1Createadirectory

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11.2Quickchangeofdirectory

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11.3Importingadocument

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11.4Creatinganewdocument

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11.5Savingdocuments

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11.6Deletingafileoradirectory

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11.7Watchingcoursequotas

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Chapter12Interactivity:theexercisestool

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12.1Introduction

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12.2Feedback,scoreandcorrectanswers

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12.2.1Feedback

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12.2.2Score

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12.2.3Correctanswers

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12.3Testtypes

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12.4Creatinganexercise

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12.5Creatingaquestion

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12.5.1Type1:MultiplechoiceSingleanswer

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12.5.2Type2:Multiplechoicemultipleanswer

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12.5.3Type3:Filltheblanks

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12.5.4Type4:Matching

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12.5.5Type5:Openquestions

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12.5.6Type6:Hotspot,orimagearea

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12.5.7Type7:Exactcombination

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12.6Recyclingexistingquestions

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12.7Updateaquestionbelongingtoseveraltests

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12.8HotPotatoes,IMS/QTI2orExcelimports

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12.9Exercisesresults

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Chapter13Communication:Forum

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13.1Usingforumviews

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13.2Addforumcategories

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13.3Addforum

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13.4Manageforumcategories

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13.5Manageforums

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13.6Startanewtopic

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13.7Managediscussionthreads

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13.8Managemessages

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13.9Scorealearner

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13.10Giveascorefromamessage

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13.11Addamessagetoathread

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13.12Replytoaspecificmessage

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13.13Quoteapreviousmessage

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13.14ReplyorReplytothistopic

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13.15Searchaforumelement

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Chapter14Structure:Learningpaths

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14.1Introduction

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14.2Createalearningpath

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14.2.1Learningpath'ssettings

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14.2.2Build

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14.3Addanactivity/object/document

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14.3.1Createanewdocument

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14.3.2Useexistingresources

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14.3.3Addanewsection

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14.3.4Show

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14.3.5Organize

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14.4Addaudio

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14.5ImportAICCandSCORM

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14.6Updatealearningpath

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14.7Prerequisites

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Chapter15Reporting

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15.1Trackinglearners

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15.2Showsyntheticdataforlearner

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15.3Showlearner'sdetailedreporting

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15.4Coursereporting

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15.5Notifyaninactivestudent

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Chapter16Assignments

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16.1Assignmentscreation

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16.2Manageassignmentsfolders

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16.3Settinguptheassignmentevaluation

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16.4Expirationdates

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16.4.1Expirationdate

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16.4.2Enddate

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16.4.3Sortingassignments

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16.5Markingassignments

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16.6Manageassignments

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Chapter17Users

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17.1Subscribeusers

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17.1.1Addteachers

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17.1.2Unsubscribeauser

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17.1.3Add/updateauser'sdescription

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17.1.4Searchasubscribedlearner

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17.1.5Exportthelistofsubscribedusers

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17.1.6Displaylearnersreporting

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Chapter18Assessments

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18.1Assessmentpreconfiguration

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18.1.1Totalweightandminimumcertificationscore

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18.1.2Weights

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18.1.3Skillsranking

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18.1.4Certificatetemplate

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18.2Addclassroomactivity

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18.3Addonlineactivity

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18.4Listview

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18.5Manageactivities

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Chapter19Wiki

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19.1Startthewiki

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19.2Addanewlinkedpage

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19.3Addaneworphanpage

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19.4Commentingapage

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19.5Otherwikifeatures

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Chapter20Links

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20.1Linkscategories

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20.2Links

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20.3Managelinks

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20.4Linkschecker

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Chapter21Announcements

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21.1Addanannouncement

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21.2Announcementsmanagement

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Chapter22Glossary

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22.1Newterm

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22.2Glossarytermsmanagement

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Chapter23Attendances

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23.1Createanattendancesheet

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23.2Takingnoteofattendances

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Chapter24Courseprogress

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24.1Createathematicsection

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24.2Definethethematicplan

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24.3Createstepsforthecourseprogress

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Chapter25Agenda

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25.1Addeventtocourseagenda

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25.2Managecourseagendaevents

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25.3Personalagendatab

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Chapter26Dropbox

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26.1Createfolders

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26.2Sendafiletospecificusers

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26.3Managedropboxfiles

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26.4Readandaddcommentsattachedtoafile

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Chapter27Groups

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27.1Creategroup

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27.2Groupssettings

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27.3Letlearnerssubscribe

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27.4Autofillingagroup

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27.5Manualfilling

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27.6Gettingintoagroupspace

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27.7Overview/Exportofgroupmembers

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27.8Groupsmanagement

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27.8.1Batchmanagement

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Chapter28Chat

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28.1Sendamessage

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28.2Emptymessages

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Chapter29Survey

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29.1Surveycreation

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29.2Addsurveyquestions

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29.3Surveypreview

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29.4Surveypublication

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29.5Results

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29.6Surveysmanagement

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Chapter30Notebook

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30.1Notescreation

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30.2Sortnotes

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Chapter31Projects

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31.1Projectcreation

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31.2Subscribelearnerstoaproject

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31.3Newarticle/task

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31.4Rolesmanagement

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31.5Assignaroletoalearner

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31.6Indicatetheexecutionofatask

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31.7Learners'taskmanagementreport

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Chapter32Coursesettings

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32.1Updategeneralcoursesettings

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32.2Visibilityandaccess

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32.3Emailnotifications

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32.4Userrights

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32.5Chatsettings

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32.6Learningpathsettings

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32.7Thematicadvanceconfiguration

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Chapter33Backup

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33.1Createbackup

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33.2Importbackup

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33.3Copycourse

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33.4Emptythiscourse

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33.4.1Deletethecoursearea

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Chapter34Reporting

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34.1Owncoursesandsessionsreporting

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Chapter35Socialnetwork

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35.1Updateprofileinformation

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35.2Internalmessaging

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35.3Friends

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35.4Socialgroups

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Chapter36Sessionview

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36.1Coursestab

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36.2Learningpathstab

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36.3MyMCQtab

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36.4Mystatisticstab

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Chapter37Appendix

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37.1Glossary

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37.2Frequentlyaskedquestions

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37.2.1HowcanIsetasurveyasarequirementtocompleteacourse?

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37.2.2HowcanIcreateacrosswordstypequestion?

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37.3Documentlicense

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37.4Illustrationsindex

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37.5Alphabeticalindex

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37.6Documenthistory

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Chapter1Introduction
1.1Chamilo,whatisit?
Chamiloisanelearningsystem(thatisitmanageslearning)developedinacollaborativewayby
severalcompanies,associationsandpeople,throughanopenmodelcalledfreesoftware(asin
freedom).
YoucandownloadanduseChamilofreely,givenyouacceptitslicense(GNU/GPLv3)whichgives
you,inshort,fouressentialfreedoms,givenyourcompromisetomaintainthosefreedoms:the
freedomtouse,study,modifyanddistributethesoftware.
Chamiloisnotonlydevelopedcollaborativelybydozensofpeopleintheworldatlarge;itisalso
supportedbyanonprofitassociationwiththeobjectiveofpromotingtheplatformandensureits
continuity.Inthissense,Chamiloistheonlyfreesoftwareelearningplatformthatgeneratesso
manyguaranteesofopenaccess.
YoucancontributetoChamilotoo,promotingitsuse,reportingerrors,suggestingimprovements,
translatingit(oritsmanuals)toyournativelanguage,orevendevelopingextensionsorfixesby
yourself.

1.2Aboutthisguide
Thisguidehasbeenwrittenthroughthecollaborativeactionofseveralcompanieswhichcontribute,
theirownway,totheimprovementofeducationaroundtheworld.Seethe Erreur:sourcedela
rfrencenontrouvesectiononpageErreur:sourcedelarfrencenontrouve.
You can contribute to the writing and improving of this guide too. Just drop us an email at
info@chamilo.organdsendusbackthemodifiedversion.It'sthateasy!

1.3Whomisthisguidemeantfor?
Thisguidehasbeenwritteninparticularwith,inmind,thenumerousteachersorteachingminded
peoplewhowillhave(bytheirownwillorbynecessity)tomanageanelearningcoursee.Entering
theelearningworldisacomplexprocess,butwebelievewe'vegotanicesolutionforyou.By
explainingtoyouhowtouseChamilo,we'llactuallysandyouonaveryeasyroadtogandtingup
andrunningwithelearning.
Ifyouarealreadyanelearningmindedteacher,thisguidewillalsobeusefultoyouasitdelves
deeplyintoeveryChamilofeature,andwillallowyoutoextendthewayyouusethetooltodevelop
yourcourseesfurther.
Chamilohastwomaingoals:increasingtheteacher'savailabilityforhisstudents inneed,and
improvingthequalityofyourcourseecontentsbymakingthemsoeasytocreateandupdatethat
you'lljustlovetocomebacktoeditthemtoimproveelementsyoudidn'tthinkaboutatfirst.
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1.4Howtoreadthisguide?
Thisguidehasbeenwrittenasareferencewithasmoothlearningpath,gandtingyouthroughthe
mostusedtoolsfirst,andthenintomoreandmorecomplexorseldomusedresources.You'llfind
thatthesocialnandworktoolgandsabitoutthisdefinition(definedattheveryendofthisguide).
We'veplacedittheretogiveyouextramotivationforthe34lastchapterswhicharealittlebitmore
complexthantheothers.
Finally,you'llfindaseriesofglobaloralternativecourseeswhichwillbeusefulinthedistribution
ofyourcourseetoyourstudents,andwilleaseyourtrackingworksothatyoucandowhat'smost
important:gandtoahigherlevelofteachingwithoutleavinganyonebehind.
Werecommendyoutakeaquicklookattheglossaryonpage146.Itwillgiveyouanoverviewof
thetermsusedwithinthisguideandwillprobablyavoidconfusioninacertainnumberofsections
ofthisguide.
IfyoualreadyhaveateacheraccountinaChamiloportal,youcanmovedirectlytoChapter5on
page 15,whichwillexplaintheinterfaceof Chamilo.Ifyoualreadyknowit,movetopage 16
whichexplainshowtocreateacoursee.Ifyouare alreadycourseeadministrator(teacherofa
courseeyoucreate),youshouldgodirectlyto Chapter9 onpage 22,whichisthefirstchapter
explainingthecourseetools.Andifyoualreadyknowthetools,therewon'tbemuchtolearnfrom
thisguide,butmaybeyou'llfinditusefultoreviewitschapterSocialnetworkonpage137.
Additionally,youwillfindthisguidecanserveasaquicreference,thankstoitsAlphabeticalindex
onpage151.
Ifthisguidedoesn'tansweryourquestions,youcanusetheChamiloforum1,wherenumerousother
users,teachersoradministrators,butalsodevelopersofthesoftware,willbeabletohelpyoufind
theanswers.
Finally,intheeventualityofhavinggreaterneeds,youmightalsousetheservicesofourofficial
providers2, a group of companies and institutions which provide professional services around
Chamiloandhaveproventheirinvolvementandseriousnessintheprojectandaresustainingits
collaborativemodel.

1.5Generalusability
ItisimportanttonotethatChamilohasbeendesignedsoyoucanfindhelpinsidetheapplication
itself.
Assuch,iconshavebeenworkedouttotryandsymbolizewhattheyrepresentinaculturally
agnosticway.Furthermore,alliconshaveadescription.Ifyouholdyourmouseoveraniconforjust
onesecond(withoutclicking),youwillseetheicon'slabelappear,whichwillmakeitclearwhich
featureitprovides,asshownin.

1 http://www.chamilo.org/forum

2 http://www.chamilo.org/en/providers

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Illustration1:Iconslabel
Finally,thereis(althoughitscontentisslightlyoldnow,itisthisuseful)anonlinehelponmost
pages, which appears as a folded swimming buoy on the topright side of your screen (see
Illustration2).Itremainspresentwhenyouscrollthescreensothatyouneverlooseyourway,andit
canopenandclosewithoutaffectingyourcurrentwork.Whenyouclickthebuoy,asmallguidewill
appearexplainingthetoolyou'reinandhowtouseit(seeIllustration4).

Illustration2:Foldedhelp

Illustration3:Unfoldedhelp

Illustration4:Contextualhelppopup
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1.5.1Terminology
Chamiloisatoolused(atthetimeofwriting)byalmostathousandorganizationsaroundtheworld,
bethemprimaryschools,colleges,highereducationinstitutes,universities,SMEs,NGOsorlarge
corporations.
Obviously,allofthesehavesmalllanguagevariationswhichmakesitimpossibletodesignaone
fitsallelearningplatformorevenusersguide,sowetrytobeneutralandprovidetheapplication
withtermswhichwillbeOKforallourusersasabase.
Ofcourse,becauseweunderstandyourorganizationhasaspecificterminology,wehaveequipped
Chamilowithawaytoredefineanyinterfacetermfrominsidetheplatformadministration.Would
you urgently require a customization, you can always ask one of our official providers 3 for a
customizedlanguagepacktobeimportedintoyourplatform.
Inthisguide,wehavetriedtomaintainneutralityofterms,sosometermslikethecommonhigher
educationtermofstudenthavebeenreplacedbyneutraltermslikelearnertoalsomatchthe
businessworld.Whentalkingaboutallkindsofuserstogether,wedecidedtousethetermusers.
Thismanualisavailableinseveralformats,soyoucanalwaysdownloaditineditableformatfrom
ourwebsite4anddoaquicksearch&replaceoperationtomakeitfityourneeds.Don'thesitateto
sendustheupdatedversionbackforsharingwithothersatinfo@chamilo.org.You'llbeamazedon
howthiscanbenefityouinreturn.
The most conflictual term of Training which had been introduced in previous versions of the
softwarehasnowbeenreplacedbythemoreunderstandabletermof Course andthepreviously
replaced term of Learning path has been reinstated after a short and unsuccessful change to
Course.Youwillfindallthesenotionsdefinedinthefollowingguide.Ifyouhaveanydoubt,make
sureyoucheckourGlossaryonpage146.

3 http://www.chamilo.org/en/providers

4 http://www.chamilo.org/,documentationtab
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Chapter2WhyChamilo?
Chamilo is an elearning and collaboration platform which comes bundled as an opensource
software(oraspuristwillsay,FreeSoftware)whichcanbeadaptedtoeducationalorprofessional
projects.ItisdistributedundertheGNU/

GPL
v3
license,whichyouareboundtoacceptwhenusing
it.
TheteacherusingChamilobenefitsfromaseriesoftoolswhichallowhimtocreateanefficient
learningenvironment.Duringacourseecreation,hecan:
importorcreatedocuments(audio,video,images)andpublishthem,
buildtests,examsandautoevaluations,
elaborateorimport(SCORMandAICC)learningpaths,
allowdeliveryofvirtualassignments,
describethecomponentsofthecoursethroughdescriptionsections,
communicatethroughforumsorthechat,
publishannouncements,
addlinks,
createworkgroupsorlaboratorygroups,
participatetoavirtualclassroom(throughthevideoconferenceextension),
managescoresthroughtheassessmentstool,
createsurveys,
addawikitocreatedocumentscollaboratively,
useaglossary,
useanagenda,
manaeaproject,
followtrackingofthecoursebylearnerandsavethecourses,
registerattendances,
elaborateaclassdiary(courseprogress).
Chamiloisa flexible platform.Allitstoolscanbecustomizeddependingontheneedsofeach
course. Thissystemoffersa sober and intuitive controloftoolsandadministrationspaces,asit
doesn'trequireanyadvancedtechnicalskill.
Thethreemostgenericbuttonsavailableontheplatformarethefollowing:
Icons
Features
The pencil tool allows for the update of a specific piece of
informationorcontent
The cross tool allows for the removal of a specific piece of
informationorcontent
The eye tool allows for the change of visibility of a piece of
informationorcontent
Theyellowstarmarkeronanyiconsymbolizesthecreationofanew
resource
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Chapter3TheChamilohomepage
The homepage is the first visible page. It contains the login form and a few other important
elements:

1
3

2
4

Illustration5:Homepage
1. Oncetheloginandpasswordhavebeenregistered,connectingiseasy.Theadministrator
givespermissionstotheusers(dependingontheplatformconfiguration).
2. Itispossibletoregisterontheplatformusingasimpleform(Register).
3. Incaseyoulooseyourpassword,anewonecanbegeneratedeasily.
4. AccesstotheChamilocommunity'sforumisprovidedthroughalink.
5. Distinctcoursecategoriescanbeshownfortheunloggeduseraswelland,onceloggedin,
theusercansubscribetothemclickingonthedesiredcourse(dependingontheplatform
administrationandcoursessettings).
Note:Toviewtherestrictedaccesscourses,onemustberegisteredontheplatformandsubscribe
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Chapter4Registerontheplatform
Asforanywebplatform,userswishingtoaccesstheplatformcontentsmustregisterwiththeir
usernameandpassword.
Onceconnected,theteacherhasaccesstocoursesthroughwhichitisrelated:

3
5

Illustration6:"Mycourses"page
1. Listofcoursestowhichtheuserissubscribed.Apencilappearsnexttothecoursesfor
whichtheuserhasteacherpermissions(andisthusallowedtoupdatethecourse'ssettings).
2. ShortcuttotheSocialNetworktool(whichwewillanalyzeinChapter35,Socialnetwork)
3. Thenonadminteachercancreateacourse.
4. Teachersandlearnerscansubscribetomoreexistingcourses
5. Teachersandlearnershaveaccesstothehistoryoftheircoursessessions.
TheheaderhaschangedalittleinChamilo1.8.8,andthehelpandbugreportlinksinthetopright
cornerhavebeenreplacedbytwolittlehalfhiddenextensibleboxesontherightsideofthepage,
whichunfoldwhenhoveredwiththemousecursor.
Note:Althoughthehelpfeaturelinkhasbeenreplacedbyamoredynamic,JavaScriptbasedbox,
itremainsfullyaccessibletopeoplewithimpairedvision,whichmightbenavigatingtheplatform
throughatextbasedbrowser.Version1.8.8alsooffersanewfontresizefeatureforpeoplewith
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Chapter5Findingone'swayinChamilo
Mostofthepagesaremadequicklyavailablethroughthetabulationsontopofthepage:

Illustration7:Chamiloheader
Thetabsallowaccesstothehomepage,thecourseslist,theagenda,thetrackingpage,thesocial
network and, if one is lucky enough to be a portal administrator, to the dashboard and the
administrationpages.Thelasttabshowstheusernameandallowsausertologoutsimplyby
clickingit.
Browsingthroughacourseoffersthesamekindofnavigationonewouldfindonanycomputer.In
Chamilo,itiscalledthebreadcrumbnavigation,inreferencetothetaleofHanselandGretel.This
typeofnavigationallowstheusertofinditswaybacktohisstartingpoint.
Thefirstlink,ontheleft,yieldsthenameofthecourse,andallowstheusertogetbacktothecourse
homepagedirectly.Thefollowinglink(orlinks)pointsdirectlytotheelementsofthecoursein
whichtheuserislocated.

Illustration8:BreadcrumbNavigation
Withinacourse,the Studentviewallowstheteachertoseethecourseasalearner.Thelinkthen
changestoTeacherview.Justclickthenewlinktogetbacktothenormalviewfortheteacher:

Illustration9:Studentview

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Chapter6Coursecreation
Creatingacourseiseasy,quick,andcanbedonefromtheMycourses
page.
Note:onsomeportals,teachersmightnothavethepermissiontocreate
new courses and are simply assigned courses precreated by the
administrator.
ClickonCreatecourse.Fillthemandatoryfields(seeillustrationbelow)
andclickthebutton.That'sit.
The course will be visible by the course creator and the people
subscribed to it. By default, the person who creates the course is
responsibleforthiscourse'sadministration.
Tocreatethecourse,you'llneed:
aclearanddetailedtitle,
acategorywithintheonesofferedinthedropdownbox5,

Illustration10:Personal
menublocks

Illustration11:Creatingacourseshortversion
Additionaloptions(totallyoptional)areavailableclickingontheAdvancedsettingslink
acoursecode(pickacodethatmatchesthecoursetitleassociatedwithanumericalclassification,
forexample).Evenifenteredinlowercase,thecoursecodewillbeautomaticallyuppercased(,_
andspaceswillberemovedfromthecode),
thecourseadmin(thisoptionisautomaticallyfilledwithyourname)andcannotbeupdated,
thelanguageusedtodisplaythecourseenvironment(nothingpreventstochooseFrenchevenif
theplatformisinstalledinEnglish).Thelanguagechoicedoesn'tinfluencethecoursecontent,
5 Seull'administratorpeutredfinirlescatgoriesglobalesdecourse
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onlythecourseinterface6,
the course can be filled with some example content to show the way to the new course
administratorastowhathecancreateinsidethecourse(typicallyanexercise,forumsandan
introductionsection)orleftcompletelyempty.

Illustration12:Createacourseextendedversion
Aconfirmationpageisshown,whichsuggests:
enteringthenewlycreatedcoursedirectly(throughalinkonthecoursetitle),
gettingbacktothecourseslist.
This empty course structure created, the next step is to enrich this course through text and
multimediadocuments,audioexcerpts,).

6 Auneexceptionprs:sil'onactivelacrationdecontentd'exemple,cecontentestcrdanslalangueducourse.
Modifierlalangueducourseposterioriauradonccommeconsquencemineured'avoirl'interfacedansunelangue
andlescontentsdansuneautre.
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Chapter7Controlcourseaccess
Duringthecreationofthecourse,itisrecommendednottoletlearners
access the course until it is ready so they can't see an incomplete
course.
Inorder to this, access has tobe restricted bygoing tothe course
properties:
Aseriesofchoicesareavailabletotheteacher.

Illustration 13: Course

admintools

Illustration14:CoursesettingsVisibility
1. open totheworld:meansitisaccessibletoanyuser,registeredtothisportalornot. It
couldalsobecalledCompletelypublic.
2. open:meansallusersregisteredontheportalcanaccessthecourseaslongastheyhave
previouslysubscribedtoit.Thisisthedefaultoption.
3. Private:meansthecourseisonlyavailabletostudentswhohavebeensubscribedtoitbya
teacheroradministrator.
4. Closed: meansthecourseis onlyavailabletoitsteacherortheadministrator. Other
userscannotaccessit,eveniftheyhavepreviouslybeensubscribedtoit.Thislastoptionis
recommendedduringthecoursebuilding.

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Chapter8Coursesorganizing
WithChamilo,onecanbebroughttomanagealargequantityofcourses.Additionallytogeneral
coursecategories,commontoallcoursecreators,itispossibletocreatepersonalcategories,only
visibletotheteacherwhocreatedthem,sohecansorthiscourses.
Note:Thisfeatureisnotsupportedbytheplatformdevelopersanymore,andcouldbeabandoned
inthefuture.ItcanenterinconflictwiththecoursesorderontheMycoursespagewhentheseare
registeredwithinsessions.

Illustration15:Sortmycourses
GotoMycourses,Coursescatalogtogettothecoursessortingtoolspage.ClickontheCreatea
coursecategory,andfillthenameofthenewpersonalcategorytobecreated.Finally,clickOK.
Thepersonalcategorycreatedappearsinalistatthebottomofthepage.Itispossibletocreate
severalpersonalcoursecategories.
ThelinkSortmycoursesallowsthereorganizationofthecourses(throughupanddownarrows)and
the assignment of a personal category to a specific course (click the pencil icon to select the
category).
Inthedropdownlist,selectthepersonalcategorytowhichthecoursewillbeassociated,thenclick
the confirmation button. With courses sorted and linked to personal categories, the courses
homepageismorereadable.Coursesnotaffectedtoanypersonalcategoryareshownontopofthe
page.
Toremoveacategory,clicktheredcrossDelete.

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Illustration16:Personalcoursescategories
Ateachercansubscribetoothercoursesthantheoneshemanages.Inthiscase,thesubscription
worksasastudentsubscription,andtheteacherwillthusnothaveaccesstotheteachertoolsinside
thiscourse.
ClickingontheCoursescataloglink,thenonSubscribetoacourse.Thegeneralcoursescategories
listappears.Itispossibletofindthecourseinthesuggestedcategories,ortofinditsearchingfor
thecoursetitleoroneofitssubpartsthroughthesearchboxonthetoprightpartofthepage.

Illustration17:Coursescatalog
Oncethecoursehasbeenfound,clickon icontosubscribetoit.Thesubscriptiongivealearner
statustotheusersubscribing.Tobeteacherinthiscourse,acourseadministratorhastoregisterthis
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8.1Coursesmanagementicons

Icons

Features
Updateacourse
Removeacourse
Coursedescription
Courseregistration

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Chapter9Courseadministration
TheMycoursesiconallowsthevisualizationofthecourseswhichcanbemanagedbytheteacher
(theydisplayapenciliconontherightsideofthecourse'sbox).
Oneonlyneedsclickingonthecoursenametoaccessitshomepage.Threetoolscategoriesappear
Production:allowsforcoursecontentcreation,
Interaction:allowsforinteractionteacherlearnerorlearnerlearnerwithinthecourse,
Administration:allowsformanagementofthecourseoptions.

Illustration18:CoursetoolsClassicaloption
Theteachercanchoosetoselectorshowdistincttoolsthankstotheeyeiconinfromofeachtool,so
thatthecoursedoesn'tintimidatethenewlearnerwithtoomanyoptions.
Note:dependingonthecase,theadministratorcanmaketoolsunavailabletocourseteachersor
can enable tools which depend on specific extensions (like the fulltext search or the
videoconference).

Illustration19:Productiontoolsinipadtypeview
Note: Thecourse interface canbeshowninadifferentwaydependingontheadministrator's
choice.Hecould,forexampleandsinceversion1.8.8,enableaviewmoresuitedtomobiledevices,
asinthisillustration.
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Chapter10Coursehomepage
Inthischapter,wewillsimplyreviewbrieflythedistincttoolsavailable.Notethateachtoolwillbe
describedmoreextensivelyinthefollowingchapters.

10.1Introductiontext
Apartfromanyparticularcoursetool,itispossibletosetawelcomemessagetoacourse.Clickon
theAddintroductiontext,atexteditorappears.

Illustration20:CoursehomepageIntroductiontext
Thisfeature,althoughverysimple,isalsoverypowerful:itispossibletoredesignthecomplete
coursehomepageby
hidingallcoursetools
writingalargeintroductiontextincludingiconswithlinkstocoursetools'internalpages
Todothis:
hidealltools(byclickingtheeye,whichmustbeclosedandgray)
clickrightononetooltowhichthelearnerswillbegivenaccess
selectCopylinklocation
clickleftonAddanintroductiontext
placeanintroductiontext(usethetabletooloranexternalHTMLeditiontooltoplace
elementsmoreexactly)andanewiconsymbolizingthetooltowhichtograntaccess
clickanicontoselectitthenclickthelinkcreationtool(achainiconwithaglobeimagein
thebackground)
pastethelinkthatwassavedafewstepsbefore(CTRLVshouldworkjustfine)
savethewhole
Younowhaveapersonalizedcoursehomepage.Theonlyremainingothervisualelementsarethe
headerandthefooter.

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10.2Productiontool

Illustration21:Productiontools

10.2.1Coursedescription
Thecoursedescriptionisnotatallmandatory,butallowsforasyntheticandglobalwaytodescribe
thecourseandtogiveaprevioustasteofthecoursetofuturelearners.
Thisdescriptionincludesseveralsectionsofwhichnoneisparticularlyrequired.Iftheproposed
sectionsdonotmatchedtherequirements,othersectionscanbecreatedwithspecifictitles:
Coursedescription,
Objectives,
Subjects,
Methodologyetc,
Atanytime,asectioncanberemovedclickingontheDeleteicon,ortoupdateitwiththeupdate
icon(pencil).
Thedescriptionisavailabletothelearnersinsidethecourse,butalsothroughthecoursecatalog(as
the Description button). Thisbuttonopensapopupwindowshowingthedescriptionpreviously
registeredbytheteacher.

10.2.2Documents
Adddocuments,createdirectoriesforthecourse.

10.2.3Exercises
Create,update,importexercises,butalsotrackandexportthelearners'resultsandscorethem.

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10.2.4Learningpath
Togenerateorupdatethelearningpath:

Illustration22:ProductiontoolsLearningpaths

10.2.5Assessments
Thistoolisveryusefulwhenascorehastobeassignedforthewholecourse.Itallowsforthe
creationofanevaluationintheclassroomoronline.Italsoallowsforthegenerationofcertificates
(muchmoreintuitiveinversion1.8.8.4).

10.2.6Attendances
Allowsfortheregistrationofattendancesoflearnersandtotakethemintoaccountinthescoringof
theassessments.

10.2.7Links
Addlinksinrelationtothecoursecontents.

10.2.8Announcements
Addanannouncementlinkedtothecourse.Itisalsopossibletoaddattacheddocuments.

10.2.9Glossary
Addspecifictermstothecourse.

10.2.10Courseprogress
Allowstocreatethematicsectionsoracoursediarywiththemes,plansandprogress.
Note:ThelearningpathscreatedinsidethecoursecanalsobemadevisibleintheProduction
section, whichcouldgenerateredundancy. Itispossibletoshoworhidethemusingthedouble
squareiconinthelearningpathslist(Makevisibletolearners)

10.2.11Blogs
TheProjectstoolintheAdministrationsectionwillshowintheProductiontool.Itis
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possibletohidethemfromthelearnersview.

10.2.12Search
Thesearchtoolcanbeenabledontheplatformbytheadministrator,butrequirestheinstallationof
specificandadvancedmodulesexternaltoChamiloitself.Thetoolallowsforsearchingwithinthe
textofmostdocumentsonthewholeplatform,throughtextsimportedorcreatedinsideChamilo.

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10.3Interactiontools
The objective of the interaction section is to group tools which allow communication between
learnersandlearnersaswellasbetweenlearnersandteachers.Contrarilytotheproductiontools,
theteacherisnottheonlyonetobuildwhatcanbefoundintheinteractionsection.

Illustration23:Interactiontools

10.3.1Agenda
Addevents,choosingwhoitwillbesentto.

10.3.2Dropbox
Senddocumentstotheplatformusers.

10.3.3Groups
Creategroupsinthecourseandmanagethecoursetoolsaccesses.

10.3.4Assignments
Grouptheassignmentsgiventothelearnersandcreateassignmentintheformoffolders.

10.3.5Wiki
Createawikiforthecourse.

10.3.6Forum
Createanewforumforthecourseinafewclicks.

10.3.7Users
Managecourseusers:add/delete/export.AlsolinkstotheGroupstool.

10.3.8Chat
Realtimechatrooms.
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Create surveys then send invitations to users of the platform. The tool also allows for results
analysis,oncecollected.

10.3.10Personalnotes
This is a personal notebook. It is possible to create notes, then to order them through several
criterias:
pertitle,
perupdate/creationtime.
Thesenotesarepersonal.Nouserhasaccesstothenotesofanotheruser.

10.3.11Videoconference
Since version 1.8.8, it is relatively easy, given a local videoconference server, to instal la
videoconferencetoolwithinaChamilocoursebutitis,however,anexternalextensionwhichisnot
frequentlyavailableinaclassicalportal.

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10.4Administrationtools
Theadministrationsectionhastheobjectivetogrouptoolsthatthelearnerwillnotsee(becauseit
doesn'thaveanypermissionwhichallowshimtoseethem).

Illustration24:Administrationtool

10.4.1Blogs
CreatenewblogswhicharevisiblebylearnersintheProductionsection.Ablogincludestasksand
usersmanagementthroughacalendarwithintheBlogstool.

10.4.2Settings
Managethecoursesettingsasateacher.Settingsaresortedinafewsections:
Coursesettings

Allows teachers management, update of course's title, category,

language,picture,etc.

Courseaccesses

Allowscourseaccessupdates(visibilityandotherpermissions)

Emailalerts
Userspermissions
Chattoolpermissions

Allowssettingthebehaviourforemailsalerts
Allowstheconfigurationoftheagenda,announcementsorpicture
displayinsidetheforum
Updatedtheopeningmethodofthechattool

Learningpaths
configuration

Allowsenablingthegraphicalthemeperlearningpath,aswellasa
seriesofotherlearningpathsettings

Courseprogress
configuration

Choose course progress information to be shown on course

homepage

10.4.3Tracking
Reportstheuseofthelearningpaths,exercisesandothertoolsbythelearners,aswellasthetime
spentonthecourse,theprogress,score,assignments,numberofmessagesandhislastconnection
date.
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10.4.4Maintenance
Allowsfortheexecutionofadministrativetasksonthecourse,asitscompletecleanup,itscopyto
anothercourse,theimportofpreviouslyexportedcoursedataorthe(completeorpartial)export
itself.

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Chapter11FirstSteps:Documents
Thegeneralfirststepofanyteacherinthecoursecontentcreationistogotothedocumentstooland
uploadexistingcontent(intheformofPDF,PowerPoint,etc).
Chamiloallowstheimportofalltypesofdocuments(HTML,MSWord,MSPowerPointMS
Excel,PDF,Flash,Quicktime,OpenOffice.org,LibreOffice,MP3,OGG,AVI,etc.)andcanbe
usedasasimpledocumentscatalogduringthefirststepofitsadoption(afewweeks,dependingon
thecontext).
It is possible to rename the documents anytime and to classify them in directories. The only
constraintisthattheusershouldposess,onhiscompluter,thesoftwarethatallowshimtoreadthe
filesputathisdisposal.Soitisrecommendedtousestandardandopenformats(seenotebelow)to
avoidtheobligationforthelearnertodownloadorbuycostlysoftware,specific(=withnoother
use)ordifficulttomaintain.
Asfortheharddrive,itisnecessarytoorganizetheDocumentstoolcarefullytomakeiteasytofind
adocument.
Note:TheChamilocommunitystrivesforacompletefreedominthediffusionof(distant)learning
material.Itisinthisperspectivethatahighpriorityisgiventothesupportofopenformatsand
applications,like LibreOffice andits OASISformat,ratherthanthe Microsoft officesuite,
OGG (and itsvariations) ratherthan MP3 or DivX, etc. Sowe'dliketoremindyouthatall
featuresofChamilocanbeusedwithasimple,openspecificationsbrowser,totheonlyexceptionof
the videoconferenceand thehotspotexercises,whichrequirethe Flash plugin (freebutnot
open).
Thistoolcanbefoundinallcourses,asitprovestobeofagreatpopularitycomparedtoothertools:

Illustration25:Productiontools

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11.1Createadirectory
Toobtainaclearerstructure,Chamiloletsyoucreatedirectoriesandsubdirectories.

Illustration26:DocumentsDirectoriescreation
Tocreateadirectory:
clickontheCreatefolderbutton,
enterthedirectoryname,
use the existing directories dropdown list to create a subdirectory ( Root represents the
highestdirectorylevel),
clickontheCreatethefolderbutton.
Done.Thenewdirectoryhasbeencreatedandcanbeusedrightawaytostorenewdocuments.

11.2Quickchangeofdirectory
Whencreatinganewcourse,theDocumentstoolcontainsseveraldirectories(audio,flash,images,
etc)bydefault(thiscanvarydependingonhowcoursecreationoptionshavebeenpicked).
Thesedirectories aremeantas anadditionalhelporganizingresources insidethecourse.Once
passedthe20firstdocumentsintherootdirectory,itbecomesdifficulttolocateadocumentwhen
needed.
Thesedirectoriesareinitiallycreatedinvisibletolearners.Itisuptotheteachertodecidewhether
learnerscanseethesedirectories'contentsornot.

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Illustration27:DocumentsListofdefaultdirectories
Fortherequirementsofthecourse,itispossibletocreateseveralotherdirectoriesthankstothe
foldercreationicon.Inordertonavigatefasterinsidethedirectoriestree,adropdownlistcalled
Currentdirectoryisavailableontheleftofthescreen.Anylevelofcoursedocumentsdirectorycan
beaccessedsimplybychoosingit.
Onceinsideadirectory,the(new)directoryiconwithabluearrowpointingtotheleftletsthe
teachergetbackuponedirectorylevel.

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11.3Importingadocument
Importanewdocumentbygettingintothedesiredfolderandclickingtheuppointingbluearrow
icon(Uploaddocuments).

Illustration28:DocumentsIconsUpload
Thefollowingscreenappears:

Illustration29:DocumentsDocumentsupload
Clickonthegreenareatoexplorethefilesonyourdiskandselecttheone(s 7)toupload.Insidethe
popupwindow,clicktheconfirmationbutton.Thedocumentsuploadstarts.Ifyousendseveralfiles
atthesametime,youwillseetheiruploadprogress,live,asinthefollowingillustration.

Illustration30:DocumentsDocumentsuploadinprogress
Oncetheuploadisfinished,thefollowingvalidationlistappears.
7 Toselectmorethanonefile,usetheCTRLkeyincombinationwiththemouse'sleftbutton.
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Illustration31:DocumentsDocumentuploadfinished
Done.Thedocumentshavebeensenttothecoursesuccessfully.Nowclickonthebluearrowicon
pointinglefttogetbacktothedocumentslist.
Note:AtablabelledSend (Simple) allowsyoutousethepreviousuploadform.Wecalledit
Simplebecauseusersaregenerallymoreusedtothisone,butitisreallyabitmorecomplicatedto
use.Documentindexingoptionscanonlybefoundinthepreviousform(incaseyouradministrator
wouldhaveenabledthesearchfeature)aswellasanoptiontounzipacompletefileshierarchy.

11.4Creatinganewdocument
The teacher can create new documents directlythroughthe documents tool. No need to use a
separatetextprocessingsystem.Justclickthecreationiconinsidethedesiredfolder.Afullblown
onlineeditorappears.

Illustration32:DocumentsIconsCreation
Notealliconsmarkedwithasmallyellowstarrepresentcreationfeatures.Wewillreviewthemabit
later.
Afternamingthedocument,itispossibletousealltheoptionsofthembeddededitortoformat
them.Youcanalsouseaseriesofdocumenttemplates,availableinsidetheleftcolumn.

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Illustration33:DocumentsCreatinganewdocument
Once the document has been edited, save it clicking on the Create document. Other types of
documentscanbecreateddependingonyourbrowserandtheportalconfiguration.
Icon

Feature
Thedrawfeatureallowsyoutodrawdiagramsorschemasinavectorialformat8,which
canbereeditedorexportedtothebitmapformat.
Theimageeditionfeatureisverysimilartothe Photoshop tool and allowsforthe
edition,cutting,coloring,thecombinationofpicturesorotherbitmapimages.
Theaudiorecordingfeatureallowsyoutorecordaudiotracksrightfromyourbrowser,
usingyourmicrophone(onalaptop,themicrophoneisgenerallyembedded)
Thetextbasedvoicegenerationfeatureallowsyoutohavethecomputerspeakforyou.
Tryit.You'llbesurprisedbythequalityofthegeneratedvoices.

8 Dans tous les navigateurs rcents sauf dans Internand Explorer 6, 7 and 8 ou candte fonctionnalit n'est pas
implmente.
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11.5Savingdocuments
Savingallthedocuments,oraspecificdirectory,ismadepossiblebyChamilo,clickingontheSave
(ZIP)iconintheiconsbar:

Illustration34:DocumentsDownloadacopy
Itisalsopossibletosaveonlyonefilebyclickingontherightofthefilename,ortodownloada
specificdirectorybyclickingontheSave(ZIP)iconontherightofthedirectoryline.

11.6Deletingafileoradirectory
Todelete,update,hideorshowafileordirectory,usetheoptionsintherightcolumn:

Illustration35:DocumentsOptions
Asyoucanrealizebyyourself,theiconsaredifferentdependingonthedocumenttype.HTML
documentsoffermorepossibilities.
The magic wand icon allows you to use the selected document as a template to create other
documents.Itthenbecomesveryeasytofollowthesamevisualstyleforalldocumentsofthesame
course.
ThePDFiconallowsyoutoexportthedocumentinaPDFformat.Thiscanbeparticularlyusefulif
youwishtoreadyourcourseinthetrainortheplane,whereyoudon'thaveaccesstoyoure
learningplatform.
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11.7Watchingcoursequotas
By default, a course quota of 100Mo is set, but it is also possible to update it through the
administration panel. To check the space usage, look at the indication at the bottom of your
documentslist.Iwillindicatethepercentageofyourcoursethatisbeingused.

Illustration36:DocumentsQuota
Ifyouthinkyoucanreachthecourselimitinthefollowingdays,contactyouradministratortoask
himifitispossibletoincreasetheavailablespace.Onlytheplatformadministratorhasthepowerto
usethisfeature.
Note: the space available in a course is only limited, in Chamilo 1.8.8.4, to the use of the
documentstool.Userswillbeallowedtosendnumerousassignmentswithoutworryingaboutthe
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Chapter12Interactivity:theexercisestool
12.1Introduction
Theexercisestoolisgenerallythesecondteacher'sattemptintotheelearningworld.
Thegoalisclear:automaticcorrectionofthelearners'answers(resultingintimesavingsforthe
teacherwhocanthenfocusonthequalityofthequestions)representapossibilityforthelearnerto
autoqualifyhimselfrepeatedly,withoutdependingontheavailabilityoftheteacher(hisresultscan
beshowntohimimmediatelyandautomatically),toreusethecoursequestionsfromonecourseto
another,etc.
Thetoolallowsyoutocreateorimportaquestionnaire(informatslikeHotPotatoes,IMS/QTI2or
XLS).

Illustration37:ExercisesList
Creatinganewtestisveryeasy.Clickthefirsticonontheleftandgiveyourtestatitle,thenclick
ontheconfirmationbutton.

Illustration38:ExercisesSimplecreation
Asthereexistmanytypesofdifferentexercises,youmightthinkthedefaultoptionsarenotentirely
goodforwhatyouwanttoobtain.ThatiswhywehavemadetheAdvancedsettingssectionavailable
(seeIllustration39below).
Thisformgivesyoumanyoptions.Duringthecreationofthetest(andalsoduringitsedition),you
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maychoose:
whetherthetimeislimitedtoanswerthetestarealtimecounterwillappeartotheuser9,
thenumberofattemptsallowedforeachstudent,undefinedorlimited,
whetherallthequestionsshowononesinglepage,oronlyonequestionperpage(lastoption
recommendedfortrackingpurposes),
thequestionsorder(randomornot),
etc.
Thequestionsaskedmightbeofdifferenttypes:
multiplechoice,singleanswer,
multiplechoice,multipleanswers,
fillintheblanksorfillintheform(orevencrosswordsifyouuseitincombinationwiththetable
featureoftheonlineeditor),
match,
openquestion,
hotspot,
exactcombination
aswellasvariationsofthesetypesofquestions.
Theanswerstoeachquestionaregivenduringits creation,andtheresultscanbeseeninthe
Reportingtabwhenlearnershaveansweredthem.Thistabalsoallowsyoutoleaveacomment,then
toexporttheresultsfound.
An exercise groups together a number of questions, not necessarily of the same type, under a
commontopic.

12.2Feedback,scoreandcorrectanswers
Inordertofullyunderstandtheexercisesfeature,itisnecessarytogetagoodgripofwhatspecific
termsmeaninChamilo.

12.2.1Feedback
Thefeedbackisawaytoautomatethelearner'sanswercommenting.Typically,ifhegivestheright
answer,youcongratulatehim:Welldone,Icanseeyouhaveagoodgrasponthisconcept!.
Ifheanswersincorrectly,obviouslyyoucanusethisopportunitytotellhimso,butitisalsoan
opportunitytogofarbeyondthatandmakethefeedbackpartofthelearningprocess.Thelearner
mightbewrong,butthisisthebesttimeforhimtolearnwhyandhowtoavoidthat,nexttime.Use
hints:Thisisincorrect.Probably,youhaven'treadtheOpenStandardschapterdeeplyenough.A
quickrevisionofChapter3shouldhelpyouout!RemembertheexampleofOASISandhowitwas
designed?.ThisfeedbackcouldalsocontainadirectlinktotheexampleChapter3.
Inshort,itisawaytoencourageandcorrecttelearnerduringhisautoevaluationattempts.

9 Ifthelearnerdisconnectsfromtheexercise,histimewillcontinuecountingdownuntilitiscompletelyexpired,but
hewillbeabletoreconnectandcontinuehisexerciserightwheeheleftit.Thetimecounter only worksin one
questionperpagemode.
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12.2.2Score
The score isarawwayofgivinganevaluationofhisskillstothelearner.Ifyougiveadirect
scoretoalearner,itbecomesmoredifficulttofinetuneitafterwards.Updatingascorecanbe
necessaryunderspecificcircumstanceswheretheexerciseiscomplexandrequiresamanualreview
fromtheteacher.

12.2.3Correctanswers
The correct answers are ashort anddirect way to explain tothe learner what he should have
answered.Sometimesyoumightwanttoshowtheseanswers,butintheinterestofthepossibilityto
reusetests,itisrecommendedyoudon'tshowanyanswer,andratherusethefeedbacktoletthe
learnerknowhowheshouldhaveansweredandsethimontherightcoursetogetitrightnexttime
throughhisownefforts.

12.3Testtypes
Wegatheraseriesoftesttypesundertheexerciseslabel:
examsareexercises(generallytimecontrolled)forwhichnofeedback,noranyanswer,is
giventothelearner:hewillobtainhisresultswhentheteacherconsidersitright.
theexercisesallowyoutoevaluatethelearnerduringthecourse,andaregenerallylimitedto
one to three attempts. The results (score) are shown to the learner, but not the correct
answerds.
theautoevaluationtestscangenerallybetakenanunlimitednumberoftimes.Theyare
generallynotlimitedintimebutdisplayfeedback,scoreandsometimesthecorrectanswers
totheusersohecanimprovethroughpractice.

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12.4Creatinganexercise
ClickonNewtestandgiveyourtestaname.

Illustration39:ExercisesCreatinganexerciseAdvancedoptions
Theothersettingsareoptional,buttheyallowyoutoindicateafewoptions:
theGiveacontexttothetesticonallowsyoutoassociatemedia(text,sound,images,etc)through
theonlineeditor.Thisinformationwillappearatthebeginningofthetest,
giveaFeedbacktoalearner,
thewayitwillappear:eitherallquestionsononepageoronequestionperpage,
whetheryouwanttoshowthescoreobtainedtothestudentornot,
whetheryouwanttouserandomquestionsorderornot,
whetheryouwanttoshuffletheanswerswithinthemultiplechoicequestions,
whetheryouwanttolimitthenumberofattempts,
whetheryouwanttolimittheavailabilityoftheexercisebetweentwodates(itthenwilldisappear
totheuser),
whethertopropagatenegativeresultsfromonequestiontoanother,ortolimitthenegativeimpact
toaminimumscoreofzero,
whethertoenabletimecontrol,whichwilllimitthetimeallowedinthetest,andshowareverse
secondscounterduringthetesttaking,
if thetextindexingfeaturehasbeenenabledbytheadministrator,youwillbeofferedasetof
optionstoindextheexercisedescriptiontoo.
ClickProceedtoquestionstoaddthefirstquestiontoyourtest.

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Note:thecombinationoftheimmediatefeedbackoptionwiththeautoevaluationgivesaccessto
anadaptativeexercisetyperelativelydifferentfromtheothertypes, whichisnotcoveredinthis
guide.

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12.5Creatingaquestion
Oncethetesthasbeencreated,choosethetypeofthefirstquestionwithinthedifferenttypes
proposed.Ifthetestalreadyexistsandyouneedtoaddoneormorequestions,youcanproceedthe
sameway.Itispossibletomakethetesthardertodobyassigninganegativescoretoawrong
answer,whichmakesthelearnerthinkmore.Theexercisecanbecomposedofseveraltypesof
answersinordertobreakthemonotonyofanexerciseandfillitsevaluationrequirements.

Illustration40:ExercisesQuestiontypes

12.5.1Type1:MultiplechoiceSingleanswer
Theclassicalmultiplechoicequestionistheonewhereonlyoneproposalwillbeconsideredvalid.
Itispossibletomakethetestalittlebitmorecomplicatedbyassigninganegativescoretoawrong
answer.Whenwellindicated(eitherinthetestintroductionorthequestionitself),thisensuresthe
learnerwillthinkmoredeeplybeforegivingarandomanswer.

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5

Illustration41:ExercisesMultipleanswerquestioncreationform
givethequestionatitle(1)notethatthisisnotthequestionitself(see3),
enterthedifficultyofthetest(2),
clickontheGiveacontexttothetestlinktoaddthequestioninitself,illustratedbyimages,audio,
etc(audiocanbeusedforlisteningcomprehensionquestions),throughtheinternaleditor(3),
addorreducethenumberofanswersproposedbyclickingthe Addansweroption or Remove
answeroption(4),
entertheanswersproposedtothelearners(alittlebitofvisualformattingandaddingmedia
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selecttherightanswer(6),
enteracomment(feedback)associatedtoeachanswer.Keepinmindthecommentassociatedtoa
wronganswercanbethestartofabetterlearningandareinforcementofthenotionslearned(7),
assignascore(positive,negativeornull)toeachproposedanswer(8),
clickontheAddthisquestiontothetestbuttontosavethequestion(9).

12.5.2Type2:Multiplechoicemultipleanswer
Thisquestiontypeisavariationofthefirstone.Itallowsyoutoassignseveralvalidanswers.Again,
positiveandnegativescoresarepossible.

Completethequestionlabel,
enterthedifficultylevelforthequestion,
clickontheEnrichquestionlinktoaddmediathroughtheonlineeditor,
addorreducethenumberofanswersproposedbyclickingthe Addansweroption or Remove
answeroption,
entertheanswersproposedtothelearners(alittlebitofvisualformattingandaddingmedia
elementscanbedonethroughthetinyblackarrowontopoftheanswerzone),
selecttherightanswer(s),
enteracomment(feedback)associatedtoeachanswer.Keepinmindthecommentassociatedtoa
wronganswercanbethestartofabetterlearningandareinforcementofthenotionslearned,
assignascore(positive,negativeornull)toeachproposedanswer,
clickontheAddthisquestiontothetestbuttontosavethequestion(9).

12.5.3Type3:Filltheblanks
Itisatextwithholesquestiontype.Itsobjectiveistogetlearnerstowritewordsthathavebeen
previouslyremovedfromatext.Thisisthetypeofexercisegenerallyusedbylanguageteachersat
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Illustration42:ExercisesFilltheblanks
Completethetitleforthequestion,
enterthedifficultyofthequestion,
clickontheEnrichquestionlinktoaddmediathroughtheonlineeditor,
enterthetexttofill,byplacingtheexpectedwordsorexpressionsinsidebrackets,
affectascore(positive,negativeornull)toeachproposedanswer,
clickontheAddquestiontothetestbuttontosavethequestion.

12.5.4Type4:Matching
ThistypeofquestioncanbeselectedtohavethelearnerlinkelementsasasetofP1proposalswith
asecondP2setofproposals.Itcanalsobeusedtoaskausertosortelementsinacertainorder.

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 Completethequestiontitle,
enterthedifficultylevel,
clicktheEnrichquestiontoaddmediausingtheonlineeditor,
addorremoveproposedelements(numerical)andmatches(literal)clickingontheAddelementor
Removeelement,
entertheproposedelementsdetails(aswellastheirmatches),
completetheMatchestocolumntoshowtherelationbetweenproposedelements,
giveascore(positive,negativeornull)toeachanswerproposed,
clickontheAddthisquestiontothetesttosavethequestion

12.5.5Type5:Openquestions
Here,thelearner'sanswerwillbefreelywritten.Thisanswerwillnotbeautomaticallyevaluatedat
theendofthetest,butwillhavetobeevaluatedbytheteacherbeforethefinaltestresultcanbe
scored.

Illustration43:ExercisesOpenquestions
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 completethequestiontitle(shortversionofthequestion),
enterthedifficultylevel,
clickontheEnrichquestionlinktoaddmediathroughtheonlineeditor,
assignascore(positive,negativeornull)tothequestion,
clickontheAddthisquestiontothetesttosavethequestion

12.5.6Type6:Hotspot,orimagearea
Inthistypeofquestion,thelearnerwillbeaskedtoidentifyareaswithinanimagebyclickingon
them.Theseareashavebeenpreviouslydefinedbytheteacher.Buildingoneofthesequestions
requireslightlymoreworkthanothertypes.

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Illustration44:ExercisesHotspotquestioncreation
fillthequestiontitle,
enterthelevelofdifficulty,
clicktheEnrichquestiontoaddmediausingtheonlineeditor,
clicktheBrowsebuttontoimportanimage(in.jpg,.pngor.gifformat)fromyourcomputer,
clickontheGotoquestionbutton,
describethefirstareathelearnerwillhavetoidentifyandaddacomment(feedback),
selectoneoftheshapesavailable(rectangle,ellipse,polygonordelineationforadaptivetests),
whicheveristhemostadaptedtotheareatoidentify.Tocloseapolygonordelineation,clickright
andselecttheClosepolygonoption,
assignascore(positive,negativeornull)tothefirstareatoidentify,
clickontheAddhotspotbuttonifthelearnerhastoidentifymorethanonearea,andrepeatthe
previoussteps
ClickAddthisquestiontothetesttosaveit.

12.5.7Type7:Exactcombination
Thisisavariationofthemultipleanswertypetestwe'veseenpreviously.Theonlydifferenceisthat
nopartiallycorrectcombinationwillbeaccepted.ThismeansthatifyouhavepossibilitiesABC
DandonlyBandDarecorrect,youwillhavetomarkbothBandDinordertobegiventhepoints
assignedtothisquestion.

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Illustration45:ExercisesExactcombination
completethequestiontitle,
enterthedifficultylevelofthequestion,
clicktheEnrichquestiontoaddmediausingtheonlineeditor,
addorremoveanswersbyclickingtheAddansweroptionorRemoveansweroptionbuttons,
enterthepossibleanswersthatwillbegiventothelearners,
checktherightanswers'checkboxes,
entercomments(feedback),
assignatotalscore(positive,negativeounull)forthewholequestion.Thisscorewillonlybe
givenifthelearnerselectstherightcombinationofanswers(novariationisallowed),
clicktheAddthisquestiontothetestbuttontosavethequestion.

12.6Recyclingexistingquestions
Anyquestioncreated,independentlyfromthetestorcoursetowhichithasbeenattached,feedsthe
questionsdatabase.Thisbasecanbeveryusefultoreusequestionsthatareverygeneralortoserve
asafillerwhenyou'reshortofafewquestionsinanewtest.
Duringthetestcreation,thedatabaseshowsquestionsfromothertests,aswellasorphanquestions
(whichhavebelongedtoatestwhichhasbeenremoved).
Whenthequestiondatabaseshows,itpresentsalistofallexistingquestionsinsidethecourse.Use
theFilterandDifficultydropdownliststofilterthequestionsaccordingly.

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Illustration46:ExercisesQuestionsdatabase
ClicktheReuseincurrenttestbuttontoincludethesequestionsinthecurrenttest.
Itisonlysinceversion1.8.8ofChamilothatitispossibletoreusequestionsfromothercoursesyou
teach.

12.7Updateaquestionbelongingtoseveraltests
Thequestionsdatabaseallowsyoutorecoverquestionsfromanotherexerciseinsidethecurrent
exercise.Incaseofupdatingaquestionbelongingtoothertests,thechangewaspreviouslyaffecting
alltests,whichmadeitaverydangerousoption.
Inrecentversions,wehaveupdatedtheprocesssothequestioniscopiedinsteadofreused.This
effectivelymakesitimpossibletosimultaneouslyupdateinseveralquestionsatatime,butitisa
muchsaferoption.

12.8HotPotatoes,IMS/QTI2orExcelimports
ItisalsopossibletoimportexercisesbuiltseparatelywithHotPotatoesinthespecificHotPotatoes
format(whichisjustacombinationofHTMLandJavaScript),orintheIMS/QTI2orXLSformats.
clickonthecorrespondingiconabovethetestslist(theyallshowarepresentativeicon),
clicktheBrowsebuttonandselectthedocumentonyourcomputer,
importthedocument.

Illustration47:ExercisesImportHotPotatoes

Illustration48:ExercisesImportIMS/QTI2
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12.9Exercisesresults
ChamiloletsyouanalyseexercisesresultsbyclickingontheResultsicon(charticon,markedinthe
followingillustration),whichwillgiveyoualltheresultsforthecorrespondingexercise.

Illustration49:ExercisesList

Illustration50:ExercisesResultslist
Rightsidecolumnoptions:
clickonDetailsicontoreviewandcommentlearners'answers(openedquestionscanbescored),
clickontheDeleteicon(redx)todeletethislearner'sattempt(becauseitisnotrepresentativeof
thelearner'slevel,forexample,orbecausetheexercisewasflawedatthetimeoftheattempt).
Uppermenubaroptions:
theBacktotesticonallowsyoutogetbacktothetest
theExporticon(floppy)allowsyoutoexporttheresultsinCSVorXLSformatstosortthemand
generategraphicalevaluationstatistics,
theWithindividualfeedbackicon(listofmarksicon)allowsyoutofiltertheresultsandseeonly
theoneswhichhavealreadybeenreviewed(thedefaultviewshowsonlytheonestobereviewed)

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Chapter13Communication:Forum
Althoughthenaturalorderforthisnextchapterwouldbetodelveintothelearningpathstool(see
Chapter14onpage62),itmakesmoresensetoreviewthenextmostusedtoolontheplatform.
The Forum toolallowsyoutoorganizetheexchangeofideas,opinionsandinformationonthe
courseandthelearningpaths.Thetoolhasbeenconceivedsothatlearnerswithmanyquestions
aboutthecoursecaneasilyfindtheinformationtheyarelookingforwithouthavingtoloolthrough
amassiveamountofinformation.
Theforumisanasynchronousdiscussiontool(itmeansthepeopleinvolvedinaconversationdonot
havetobeconnectedsimultaneouslytoparticipate),justasemail.Asamajordifferencefrome
mail,though,theforumisapublicorsemipublicspace,whereseveralpeoplecanseeinformation
even if they were not part of the discussion initially, which boosts access to highly valuable
informationwhenagroupofstudentsandteachersexchangeideasintheirspecializationfield.
Thestructureoftheforumpageisasfollows:

Illustration51:ForumGlobalview
Inblue:thenameoftheforumCategories(orpreviouslyFolders),
Inred:thenameoftheforums,
Inorange:forummanagementtools.
Exchangesareorganizedinahierarchicalway,inthefollowingexamplearchitecture:
*Forumcategory
Forum
Discussionthread
message
answertothemessage
answertothemessage
message
answertothemessage
answertotheanswer
andsoforth...
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13.1Usingforumviews
Dependingonthecomplexityofexchangesontheforums,severaldisplaymodescanbeusedto
simplifyreadingandtheanswerstodiscussionthreads.
Flatview:simplyshowsmessagesinchronologicalorder,
thematicview:showsonlyoneanswersthreadatatime,
hierarchicalview:usesthethematicviewbutdisplaysacompletesubject.

Illustration52:ForumDisplaymodes

13.2Addforumcategories
IntheForumtool:
clicktheNewcategorylink,
giveitaname,
addacommentifneeded,
clickCreatecategory.

Illustration53:ForumNewcategory

13.3Addforum
FromtheForumpage:
ClickNewforum,
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addadescriptionifnecessary,
intheadvancedsettings,itispossibleto:
authorizelearnerstomodifytheirownanswers,
authorizelearnerstocreatenewdiscussionthreads,
setthedefaultview,
decideiftheforumistheoneofagroup,ifitispublicorprivate,
clicktheCreateforumbutton.

Illustration54:ForumForumcreationform

13.4Manageforumcategories
Managingforumcategoriesmakesuseoffamiliaricons:
Icons

Features
Updatesettingsofaforumcategory
Deletetheforumcategoryandallitscontents
Controlvisibilityofaforumcategory
Lock/unlockaforumcategorytopreventitsedition

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Icons

Features
Reorganizeforumcategories

13.5Manageforums
Managingforumsmakesuseoffamiliaricons:
Icons

Features
Updateforumsettings
Deletetheforumandallitscontents
Controlaforum'svisibility
Lock / unlock a forum to prevent its edition (but previous articles can still be
accessed)
Reorganizetheforumsposition
Asktobekeptuptodatebyemailwhenamessageisaddedtotheforum

13.6Startanewtopic
Whenthecontentofaforumisshown:
clickontheNewmessagelink,
completetheNameandDescriptionfields,
advancedsettingsallowusto
scoreadiscussionthreadasateacherandgiveitamaximumscore.Todothis:
selecttheMarkthisthreadbox
setamaximumscoretoreflectthelearnersparticipationinadiscussionthread,
enterorupdatethetitleofthecorrespondingcolumnfortheassessmentstool,
give a weight to the participation in the discussions thread in comparison to the other
componentsoftheassessmenttool.

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Illustration55:ForumDiscussionthread
receiveemailalertsifananswerisaddedtothediscussionthread,
setadiscussionthreadtoappearontopofthethreadslist,
addanattachmenttoanymessage,togetherwithacomment,
ClickCreatethread

13.7Managediscussionthreads
Thedaytodayadministrationoftopics(alsocalleddiscussionthreads)isidenticaltotheoneof
categoriesorforums.Youmay,however,moveatopicfromoneforumtoanother,bettersuited,one.
Icons

Features
Change the settings (name, message and advanced settings: see
previouspage)ofthetopic
Delete(afterapproval)thetopicandallthemessagesitcontained
Controlthevisibilityofatopic
Lock/unlockatopictoforbiditsmodification(butitsreadingwill
stillbeauthorized)
Moveatopictoanotherforum
Asktobesentanotificationbyemailwhenanewanswerisadded
Visualizethetopic'sparticipantsandscoretheircontributionsifthe
topichasbeenmarkedasscored

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Movingatopicfromoneforumtoanotherhastobedonethroughadropdownlist.Selectwithin
thatlistthedestinationforum,thenclickontheMoveThreadbuttontoproceed.Theeffectis
immediate.

13.8Managemessages
Amessageisananswerwithinoneofthediscussionthreads.
Icons

Features
Change the settings (name, text and advanced settings) of the
message
Deletethemessage(afterapproval)
Controlamessage'svisibility
Replytothemessage
Movethemessagetoanotherthread
Quotethismessage(andansweronthebasisofthequotedmessage)

13.9Scorealearner
Ifyouchosetoscoreatopic(ordiscussionthread),youwillhaveassignedamaximumscoretothis
thread.Anewitemwillappearintheassessmentsandaponderationisassignedtothiselement.
Fromthethreadslistinaforum:
clickontheLearnerslisticon,
scrolldowntoseethelistoflearners,
clickontheMarkactivityiconnexttothelearner'sname,
onthenewpage,locatethelistofallthecontributions(messages)writtenbythelearnerscoredas
wellasastatisticaltablebasedonthesesamecontributions,
enterthescoreyouwanttoassignthelearner:helpingyourselfwiththelistofcontributions,
chooseaqualitativeevaluationforthesecontributions.Thestatisticaltableallowsaquantitative
evaluationofthecontributions,
ClicktheMarkthisthreadbutton.

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Illustration56:ForumMarkingathread

13.10Giveascorefromamessage
ClickontheMarkactivityiconundertheuser'spicture,
Thenewpagegathersthelistofallmessagespostedbythelearneraswellasastatisticaltable
basedonthesemessages,
ClicktheMarkthisthreadbutton.
Thescoregiventothelearnerswillbeshownintheassessmenttool.

13.11Addamessagetoathread
Inthelistoftoolsavailabletomanagethediscussionthreads,locatetheReplytothisthreadicon.T
allowsyoutoaddamessageatthesamehierarchicallevelasthestartingmessage.
clickingtheiconwillgiveyouaccesstotheonlineeditortowriteyourmessage.Anareaallowing
youtoreadtheothermessagesofthethreadappearatthebottomofthepage,
giveashorttopictoyourmessage,
enteryourmessage,
choosewhetheryouwanttobenotifiedbyemailincaseanybodyanswersyourmessage,
attachadocument(optional)and,ifyoudo,addasmallcommentdescribingthedocument,
clickontheReplytothisthreadbutton.

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13.12Replytoaspecificmessage
TheReplytothismessageicon(
),locatedbelowthemessageauthor'spictureallowsyoutogive
ananswerwhichwillbelinkedtothechosenmessageandwillbehierarchicallydependentonthat
message.
Thereplyprocedureisthesameasthepreviousone,exceptthemessagetopicincludestheinicial
message,prefixingitwithaRe:indicatingthetwomessagesarerelated.

13.13Quoteapreviousmessage
Insideathread,withinaforum,itisoftenmostpracticaltobeabletoquoteawholeorpartofa
message.Thisistheaimofthisoperation,triggeredbythedoublequoteicon( ). The answer
willbeaccompaniedbytherelatedmessagetowhichitismakingreference(it will appear in
anothercolourinyouranswer).

13.14ReplyorReplytothistopic
Themaindifferencebetweenthosetwooptionsresideinthehierarchyofthedifferentmessagesand
theiranswers.
Reply createsnewanswerswhichwillbedeletedaltogetherwhentheinitialmessagesremoved,
while Replytothisthread createsmessageswhichwillbekept,evenifthestartingmessageis
removed.

13.15Searchaforumelement
Allthescreensofthe Forum toolincludeasearchfeature.Thesearchcanbeexecutedinallthe
forumsatonceandyoucancombinesearchtermswiththe+sign.Theresultsaresentintheform
ofalistindicating:
theforumcategory,
theforumtitle,
thetitleofthethreadinwhichthesearchedwordshavebeenfound.

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Chapter14Structure:Learningpaths
14.1Introduction
A learning path is a learning sequence split into sections which contain activities or learning
objects.Itcanbeorganizeddependingonthecontent.Itwillconstituteatableofcontentsor,
dependingontheactivities,itwillbeusedasanagendaofthingstodotoacquireaknowledge,a
skill.
Alearningpathcanalsobesequenced.Thismeanssomeactivitiescanbesetasprerequisitesfor
otheractivities(e.g.youcan'taccesstoactivityBbeforeyoufinishactivityA).
Thesequencecanbesuggestive(showsectionsoneafteranother)orrestrictive(thelearnerisforced
tofollowthesectionsinapresetorder).Itisimportanttounderstandthatalearningpathismore
thanjustthedicedupcoursecontent:itisanitinerarythroughknowledgewhichmightinclude
tests,discussions,evaluations,experimentation,...
Inacoursespace,clickontheLearningpathslink:

Illustration57:LearningpathsAccessthroughcourse'shomepage
Onceinsidethelearningpathtool,youareofferedthepossibilitytoimportanAICCorSCORM
content,butyoucanalsocreateoreditalearningpath:

Illustration58:LearningpathsList

14.2Createalearningpath
Clickonthecreationicon(iconwithyellowstar):Createanewcourse
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Illustration59:LearningpathsCreation
Giveanametoyourlearningpathandclick Continue.Thelearningpathiscreatedimmediately
(withoutcontentfornow).Itwillappearinthelearningpathslist.Oncethelearningpathiscreated,
yougetaccesstoaseriesoftoolsto:

Illustration60:LearningpathsElementseditionpage
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

updatethelearningpath'ssettings,
useaviewpreparedforbuildingthelearningpath,
addanactivity/object/document,
addanewsection,
useapreviewscreentocheckhowit'sgoingtolookforlearners,
organizethiscourse.

14.2.1Learningpath'ssettings
Theexampleimageontherightoftheformrepresentswhatwillbeseenbythelearnerwhenusing
thelearningpath,dependingontheoptionsconfiguredintheform.

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Illustration61:LearningpathsSettings

14.2.2Build

TheBuildtaballowsyoutocomebacktothemainmenuofthelearningpathcreationscreen.

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14.3Addanactivity/object/document
Thistabiscomposedoftwoparts.OneallowsyoutocreatealearningpathfromChamilo,theother
allowsyoutoaddresourceswhichcancomefromexternalsources:

Illustration62:LearningpathsComponentsedition

14.3.1Createanewdocument
Thisoptionallowsyoutogenerateadocumentwhichwillbeaddedtothelearningpathandsavedin
the.htmlformatinthelearningpathdocuments.
Itispossibletousestyles,addimages,videos,etc.Inotherwords,acompletelearningpathcreation
tool:

Illustration63:LearningpathsOnlinecreation

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14.3.2Useexistingresources
Youcanimportadocumentpreviouslyimportedintothedocuments toolofthecourse(e.g.a
SCORMcourse,.htmlpages,videos,images,etc.see
Onpeutimporterundocumentquiatpralablementimportdanslesdocumentsducourse(par
exemple,uncourseSCORM,despagesen.html,desvidos,desimages,andc.:cfCreatinganew
document).
Youcanaddtests,links,assignmentsandforums.Theresourcethenappearsinsidethelearning
path,insidethelistofotherelements.
Links,tests,assignments anforums canbecreatedpreviouslyinthe Production or Interaction
sectionsinsideyourcourse'shomepage,thenaddedfromthesesectionsintoyourlearningpath,or
theycanbecreateddirectlyfromtheeditionsection:

Illustration64:LearningpathsImportingexistingresources

14.3.3Addanewsection
Allowstoseparatelearningpathstomakethedifferencebetweenseveralcategories,chapters,etc
insidethelearningpath.

Illustration65:LearningpathsNewsection

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14.3.4Show
Showtheresultsofthelearningpathyoujustbuilt:

3
2

Illustration66:LearningpathsLearner'sview
1.Seealearningpath
2.Throughthesmallteacher'smenu,getbacktothelistoflearningpathsortheeditionscreen,
3.Progressofthelearnerinsidethecurrentlearningpathandbuttonstomovebackandforward,
4.Getbacktothecourse'shomepage

14.3.5Organize
Shapeyourlearningpath,changetheorderofelements,updateorremoveanyelementandadd
audiofiles:

Illustration67:LearningpathsOrganizeview

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14.4Addaudio
Toincreasetheimpactofalearningpath,youcanaddaudiotoeachdocumentinsideit.Theaudio
filewillhavetobecreatedinparallel(youcoulddoitthroughtheDocumentstool,forexample)and
thenattachedtoanystepinsideyourpath.
Toattachanaudiofiletoastep:
clickontheAudioicon,
clickontheBrowsebuttonlocatedinfrontofthedocumentnametowhichwewanttoattachthe
audio,
oncethefileisassociatedtothedocument,clickontheSaveaudioandorganization.
Note:Thescreenwhichallowsyoutoattachanaudiotoadocumentalsoletsyouorganizesections
andlearningpathssteps,aswellaseditthenames(andcontents)ofsections(ordocuments).

Illustration68:LearningpathsOrganizeviewUploadaudios

14.5ImportAICCandSCORM
Chamilo usesstandardslike SCORM and AICC fortheexchangeofcontents. It'seasytoimport
documentsusingthistool:

Illustration69:LearningpathsImportSCORM
YoucansimplyselectthecorrespondingformatdocumentonyourharddiskandclicktheImport
buttonandthat'sit,yourlearningpathisready.
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Note:Chamilo1.8andallitsderivations(includingD0keos)onlysupportSCORMinversion1.2.

14.6Updatealearningpath
GotoMycourses,pickacourseandclickLearningpaths:

Illustration70:LearningpathsList
Therightsidecolumnincludestoolstoupdateyourpaths:
Icons

Features
Updatethelearningpathsettings
Deletethelearningpath
Entertheeditionscreentoupdatethelearningpath
Display/hidethelearningpath
Show/hidethelearningpageon/fromthecoursehomepage
Exportthelearningpathinthe.zipformat,whichcanthenusedas
SCORMcontentinsideothertools
Allow/preventmultipleattemptstolearners
Setthelearningpathinfullscreenornormalview
Reorganizethelearningpaths
Export the complete learning path as a large multipages PDF
document

14.7Prerequisites
Ifalearningpathcontainsseveraldocuments,itispossibletoindicatethegoalandtheusewe
expectthelearnertodoofthelearningpaththroughprerequisites.
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Thistoolisaccessiblethroughthelearningpathconstruction:

Illustration71:LearningpathsPrerequisites
Itallowstheteachertoforcethelearnertoreadaspecificdocumentinthelearningpathtoaccess
thenextstep,ortopassanexercisetocontinue,etc.
Touseit,clickonanydocumentandactioniconswillappearinthemenu,whichallowyouto
select,betweenothers,agreencheckrepresentingprerequisites.Theonlystepleftistopickthe
prerequisitestep(thestepwhichyouwanttobeseenbeforeseeingthecurrentstep).

Illustration72:LearningpathsSelectingprerequisites

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Chapter15Reporting
Severaltoolsletteachersfollowtheprogressoftheirlearners,eitherthroughthetrackingtool,or
throughtheassignmentofhomeworksandexercisesduringthecourse.Thisway,learnersaswellas
course'sresourcescanbetracked:

Illustration73:CoursesAdministrationtools

15.1Trackinglearners
Thistrackingshowsthewayinwhichalearnerusesthecoursethankstoseveralcriterialikethe
Timecorrespondingtothetotaltimespentinthecourse,orDetailswhichincludemoreinformation
aboutthelearner.

15.2Showsyntheticdataforlearner
ClickontheReportingtoolleadsyoutoalearnerslist.Itispossibletouseitasasynthesistableto
findlearnerswhoseactivityistoolowornull(youcandefineanumberofdaysbetween2and30,
orNever)byclickingthedropdownlistlocatedontopofthepage.

15.3Showlearner'sdetailedreporting

Illustration74:ReportingLearners
Fromthesynthetictable:
clicktheDetailsiconnexttothenameofthelearneryouwanttocheckupon.Thenewpageshows
thecompletelearner'sactivityinsidethecourse,bytoolorbyactivitytype,
clicktheAccessdetailsiconontopofthepagetoshowthelistofloginsandconnectiontimesof
thelearner,
ifnecessary,itispossibletoprintthedetailedreportingsheetortoexportthemintheMSExcel
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format(.xls).

Illustration75:ReportingDetails

15.4Coursereporting
Thisparticulartrackingtypeisbaseontheuseofthecoursebythelearners,globally.

Illustration76:ReportingCoursereporting
Thesynthetictableoflearnersandthetoolsusagedetailscanbothbeprintedorexportedtothe.xls
format(MSExcel).

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15.5Notifyaninactivestudent
Fromthesynthetictableoflearners,usingthedropdownlistontopofthescreen,theteacherwill
beabletochooseandaninactivityperiodabovewhichitwillbenecessarytowakethelearnerup.

Illustration77:ReportingNotifyinactivestudents
Theperiodcanbechosenbetween2and30days.Aniconrepresentingawarningroadsignshows
nexttothelearnerswhomatchthiscriteria.
Tosendanemailnotificationtotheinactivelearners:
clickontheRemindinactiveusersicon,
onthenewscreen,createanannouncement.Thedestinationshavealreadybeenpreselectedand
youareofferedatemplateemailtobeupdatedandsent,
intheannouncementpublicationscreen,iftheboxSendthisannouncementbyemailtoselected
groups/usersischecked,thentheannouncementwillbeaddedtothenormalannouncementsof
thecourse(destinationsoftheannouncementwillonlybetheonesrelatedtotheinactivity)and
theinactivelearnerswillreceivethemailyoujustwrote.

Illustration78:ReportingReminderannouncement

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Chapter16Assignments
Thistoolallowsalearneroragroupoflearnerstouploaddocumentsfortheteachertoreview.Thee
assignmentscanbeseenanddownloadedbyotherlearnerifnotconfiguredotherwise(iftheteacher
checkedthisboxinVisibility).
Thesedocumentscanbehomeworksrequiredbytheteacherorinterestingfilestosharewithothers
(wearegenerallyspeakingaboutthefirstcase).Itcanbeusedtoreceiveindividualorcollective
reports,answerstoopenquestionsoranyotherformofdocumentelaboratedbythelearners.
Thetoolalsoallowsforthemodificationofthevisibilityoftheassignmentssentbythelearners.
Theygetthepossibilitytosendfiles(exercises,reports,writtenproduction,)tothecourseinside
whichthecoursedelegatewillevaluatethem.
Italsoallowslearnerstochecktheassignmentsofoneanother.Itisaway,forthem,tolearnmore
bybenefitingfromother'swork,butithastobeusedcarefullyassomelearnersarenotreadytobe
given so much freedom. The choice between private (only visible to the teachers) or public
assignments (all learners can see assignments from others) can be made by clicking the right
visibilityoption.

Illustration79:AssignmentsOptions

16.1Assignmentscreation
Ifthenumberoflearnersinyourcourseisimportant,therewillbemanyassignmentstomark...
Toeasetheclassificationupalittleandpreparetheircorrection,Chamilorequiresthecreationof
assignmentsintheformoffolders.Eachfolderrepresentsanassignmenttobedeliveredandall
learnerswillhavetoplacetheirassignmentinthesamefolder.
Tocreateanewassignment:
clickontheCreateassignmentlink,
giveyournewassignmentaname,
addadescription(optional),
clicktheCreateassignmentbutton.

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Illustration80:AssignmentCreation
Theadvancedsettingsallowyouto:
definewhethertheworkwillbemarkedinsidetheassessmentstool
pickanexpirationdatefortheassignmenttobehandedout(officialdate,seefurther)
pickanenddatefortheassignment(hidden,seefurther)
decidewhethertheexpirationdateshouldbeaddedtothecourseagenda.Ifyoudidn'tselect
anexpirationdate,theassignment'screationdatewillappearintheagenda

16.2Manageassignmentsfolders
Theassignmentsfoldersmanagementreusesaseriesofknownicons:
Icons

Features
Updatethenameofanassignmentfolder
Deleteafolderandalltheassignmentsitcontains(confirmationpopup)

16.3Settinguptheassignmentevaluation
You can include assignments' evaluation inside the assessments. The marks assigned to the
correctedassignmentswillbepartoftheassessment,withanimportancedependingontheweight
definedforthisassignment.
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Toincludeassignments'evaluationintheassessments:
clickontheAdvancedsettingslink
addaMaximumscoregreaterthan0
checktheAddtogradebookbox
clickontheCreateassignmentbutton.

Illustration81:AssignmentsAdvancedsettings

16.4Expirationdates
Chamiloofferstwotimebasedoptionsfortheassignments:
anexpirationdate,
anenddate.

16.4.1Expirationdate
ThedatepastwhichallassignmentssentbythelearnerstotheplatformaremarkedExpiredinred
inthelistofassignments.Pastthisdate,assignmentscanstillbesent,buttheyaremarkedto
indicatelatedelivery.

16.4.2Enddate
The date past which it becomes impossible for the learners to send an assignment in the
correspondingfolder.Itisthedefinitivedateafterwhichtheteacherwillnotconsideranymore
worksent.

16.4.3Sortingassignments
Insidethefolder,itispossibletosortassignments:
byclickingonthecolumnheaders(Type,TitleandDate)
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 byclickingonthefilteringoptionsintheactionsbarabovethelist,whichallowyoutoshow:
assignmentsalreadymarked,
assignmentsstilltobemarked.

16.5Markingassignments
Tomarkadocumentuploadedbyalearner:
clickontheCorrectandrateicon(greencheck)ontherightsideofthedocument'sline,
inthefollowingscreen,youcan:
openordownloadthedocumentbyclickingthecorrespondinglink,
enterthescoreintheScore.
Tosavethenote,clicktheUpdatethistaskbutton.

16.6Manageassignments
Assignmentsmanagementusesfamiliaroptions:
Icons

Features
Updatethedocumenttitle,descriptionorscore.
Deletethedocument
Moveanassignmenttoanotherassignmentsfolder
Show/hidethedocumentfromthelearners

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Chapter17Users
Theuserstoolgathersalllearnersandteacherssubscribedtothecourse.Itallowsyoutomanagethe
listofsubscribedusers,registernewlearnersandassignthemspecificrolesandresponsibilities.It
alsoallowsyoutofollowtheactivitiesofalluserssubscribedtothecourse.

Illustration82:UsersMainscreen

17.1Subscribeusers
Let'sseehowtosubscribenewusers...

Illustration83:UsersActionbuttons
fromthe Users tool,clickonthe Enrolluserstocourseicon. Thelistofusersnotsubscribed
appears,
tosubscribeonlyoneperson,clicktheRegisterlinkontherightsideofthecorrespondingline,
tosubscribeseveralpeopleatonce,checktheuserswiththeboxesontheleftsideofthetable,
selecttheRegisteroptioninthedropdownlistatthebottomofthetableandclickValidate,
aconfirmationwindowappearstoensureyouwanttosubscribethem,
onceconfirmed,aconfirmationlistappearsindicatingwhichusershavebeensubscribed.

17.1.1Addteachers
Youcanalsosubscribeanotheruserasteacherinyourcourse.Justclickthe Enrollteacher icon
(secondicon)andrepeatthesubscriptionprocess.

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17.1.2Unsubscribeauser
Youcanunsubscribeanyuserindividuallyoringroup.
Tounsubscribeauniqueuser,clickthe Unregistericon(lasticon)nexttothecorrespondinguser
andconfirmyourchoice.
Tounsubscribeagroupofusers,checktheusers'boxesontheleftsideofthetaleandselect
Unregisterintheactiondropdownlistatthebottomofthetable,thenclickValidate.
Note : You cannot remove the main teacher of a course from this screen. Only the platform
administratorcandothat.

17.1.3Add/updateauser'sdescription
ClicktheEditiconontherightsideofauser'sentry,
theuser'sdetailsappear,
completeorupdatetheDescriptionfieldtoinformotherusersoftheroleplayedbythisuser,
Savechanges.
TheAssistantbox(previouslytitledTutor)allowstheassignmentofaspecialCourseassistantrole
and its corresponding permissions. These permissions will allow the user to see exercises and
assignmentsresultsfromotherlearnersinthecourse,sohecanassisttheteacherinhisfulfillment
ofhisassistantrole.

17.1.4Searchasubscribedlearner
Iftheteacherneedstofindaspecificlearnerinthelistofuserssubscribedtothecourse,thesearch
featurewillallowhimtofindoneorseveralusersfromallorpartofhisfirstnameorlastname.
Just fill the search field with the corresponding characters and click the Search button. The
matchingusersappear.

17.1.5Exportthelistofsubscribedusers
Fromthesubscribeduserslist:
clickoneoftheexporticons(CSVexport or Excelexport)todownloadthelistofusersinthe
correspondingformat,
youmightwant,independentlyfromthebackupcopiestakenbyyourcarefuladministrator,to
keepaseparatecopyofyouruserslist.
Note:notallusersdetailsareexportedthroughthisfeature(theirpasswords,forexample,are
confidentialinformationnotavailabletootherusers,noteventotheteacher).

17.1.6Displaylearnersreporting
Onceintheuserslist:
clicktheReportingiconnexttotheuser'sname
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 thedetailedcourseaccessesreportappears.
Withintheextensivedataavailable,you'llfindoptionstoreviewallexercisesorlearningpaths
results,seetheirdetails,orseethedetailofaccessestothecourse(timesanddates)throughthe
Accessdetails iconintheactionbarontopofthescreen.Thisgeneralreportingscreengivesa
generalideaoftheparticipationofthelearner,whichisgenerallyusefultojudgeoftheinvolvement
ofthelearnerinsidethecourse.
Fromthisscreen,youcan:
exportareportingsheet,
send a reminder email to the
student,
printthereport,
seetheaccessdetails.

Illustration84:UsersAccessdetails

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Chapter18Assessments
Thistoolallowsyoutodefinepedagogicalobjectivesaswellastherulesforthegenerationof
digitalcertificates.

Illustration85:AssessmentsExample
Itallowsyoutoprepareaskillsreportwhichwillshowasyntheticviewoftheresultsobtainedby
usersinthecourse.Theseresultsareshownthroughthecombinationofactivitiescomingfrom
almostallpartsofthecourse(orfromyourclassroom).
Beforewegofurtherintheassessmentstool,makesureyouhaveatleastonelearnersubscribedto
yourcourse.Thisiswhywe(smartly)putChapter17:Usersbeforethischapter.Inthischapter,it
willbemucheasiertogoalongtheexamplesifyoualreadyhavelearnerssubscibedandaseriesof
activitiescreated.Don'tforgettheuserwillnotbeabletoseethecourseanyway,ifitisconfigured
asclosed.

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18.1Assessmentpreconfiguration
Theassessmenttool,inordertoworkperfectly,requiresafewelements(remindedbycorresponding
orange warning messages) to be set: activities weighting, a minimum certification score, skills
rankingandacertificatetemplate.

18.1.1Totalweightandminimumcertificationscore
Havealookatthegeneralsettingsiconsonthetoprightsideofthescreen.

Illustration86:AssessmentsGeneralsettings
Thetotalweightisimportantforweightingoftheactivities(seefurther).Theminimumcertification
scoredefineswhenthelearnerreachesthepedagogicalobjectivesofthecourse.

18.1.2Weights
Theweightsallowyoutodefinetherelativeimportanceofeachoftheactivities(fromtheplatform
orinperson)withintheassessment.Clickonthepercentageicon(Weightinreport)togothe
generalponderationspage.Ifyoudon'thaveanyactivityregisteredatthispoint,comebacktothis
sectionabitlater.

Illustration87:AssessmentsWeights

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Itisalwaysrecommendedtodefinethetotalofweightstobe100(orthevaluedefinedinthe
previoussection),otherwiseitbecomesreallycomplicatedtounderstandallthepossiblerelative
scoringissues.

18.1.3Skillsranking
Skillsrankingallowyoutodefineranksforthescores,sothattheycanberepresentedliterallyand
graphicallymoreeasily.
Clickonthepodiumicon(lasticon).

Illustration88:AssessmentsSkillsranking
Ontheresultingscreen,checkthetwoboxes,write50inthetextboxandclickValidate.

Illustration89:AssessmentsSkillsrankingAdvanced
Thesamescreennowletsyouaddadditionaloptions:thenamesyouwanttogivetoanyscorespan
tomakeitfastertoreadgenericreports.
Getinspiration,ifyoulike,fromIllustration89.We'llseefurtherwhatthisisusedfor.

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18.1.4Certificatetemplate
Finally,itispossibletocreateacertificategeneratedautomaticallywiththelearner'sdata.Toset
thisup,clickthelargecertificateicon.You'llgettoascreensimilartothedocumentcreationtool.

Illustration90:AssessmentsCertificatetemplatecreation
You'llfindafewtokensabovetheeditionarea.Thesetokens,ifplaced(asis)inthecertificate
template,willautofillwiththelearner'sdatawhenhefinallyfulfillsalltheassessment'sobjectives.
CreateyourownCertificatemodelorsendoneinHTMLformat.

Illustration91:AssessmentsCertificatestemplateslist
Clickontheicontoselectthisdocumentasthedefaultcertificatetemplate(smallcertificateicon,
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getcoloredwhenselected).Finally,comebacktotheassessmentsscreenthrouhthebreadcrumb
navigation(clickAssessments).

18.2Addclassroomactivity
Aclassroomactivityisacomponentoftheglobalassessmentthatyoudidn'torganizeinsidethe
Chamiloplatform.Assuch,itcannotbeincludedintheplatformexceptifyouadditmanually.This
iswhatthiselementisabout...Takeaninclassexam,thenaddaclassroomactivityandmakeitpart
ofyourcourseassessment.Importlearners'resultsandgetgoing!
Intheassessmenttool,clickontheAddclassroomassessmenticon(firsticonontheleft).

Illustration92:AssessmentsClassroomactivity

Youmust
giveyouractivityatitle,
giveaweightandamaximumscore(20,forexample),
giveadescription(optional),
choosewhetheryouwanttheresultsofthisactivitytobevisibletolearners,
choosewhetheryou'lladdthescoresimmediatelyoryoujustwanttocreatetheactivity.
Youwillonlybeabletoaddresultsforclassroomactivitiesiftherearelearnerssubscribedtoyour
course.

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Illustration93:AssessmentsClassroomactivitiesFillingresults

18.3Addonlineactivity
Thistoolallowsyoutocreatealinkfromtheassessmenttooneofthefollowingtypesofresources
inyourcourse(theseresourcesalreadyhavescoringcapabilities):
Exercises,
Assignments,
Learningpaths,
Forumthreads,
Attendances,
Surveys
Itisthenvisibleinthelistofactivities
forthisassessment,andcanbeusedas
oneofthepedagogicalobjectives.
Illustration94:AssessmentsAddonlineactivity

18.4Listview
Thisviewallowsyoutolistalllearnersandtheirresults,aswellasspecificresultsrepartitioncharts
foreachresourceandacombinedchartforallresources.

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Illustration95:AssessmentsListview
Note:Thisviewonlyworksifskillsrankingruleshavebeenfullydefined.

18.5Manageactivities
Itispossibletomanageactivitiesswiftlythankstotheiconsfoundnexttoeachofthem:
Icons

Features
Updatetheactivity'ssettings(title,weight,etc)
deleted,onlineactivitiesdetachedfromtheassessment
Changethevisibilityoftheresultsoftheactivityforthelearner
Showthehistoryofchangesofthisactivity'ssettings

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Chapter19Wiki
Thewikitoolisacollectiveorcollaborativeredactiontool.Itallowsuserstoworktogetheronone
singledocument,aswellastofollowthehistoryofmodifications.Italsoallowsyoutosavetime
andbemoreefficientduringagrouptask.Itcancompletetheforumtoolinmanyways.
Thewikipagescancontainmanylinkstootherpages,ofwhichthecontentexistorisstilltobe
created.Thewikipagescanbeupdated.Eachcontributorposessesthesamerightstowriteandedit
content.Originallythoughttofavorthecollaborationbetweenlearners,thewiican,atthebeginning
ofacourse,becomposedonlyofalistoflinksinsertedbytheteacher,pointingtoemptypages
whicheachlearnerwillhavetobuildthankstotheideas,pointsofviewandexperiencesofone
another.

19.1Startthewiki
Themainpageistheentrypointofthewiki.Itcanbeupdatedonlybytheteacher,whichunlocksit
thatway.Whilehehasn'tdoneit,learnerscannotaccessit.

Illustration96:WikiMainpage
ClicktheEditthispageicon,
Removetheexistingcontentandreplaceitbynewcontent(forexample,alistoflinkspointingto
otherpagesofthewiki),
Addacommentexplainingyourcontribution,
ClickSave.

19.2Addanewlinkedpage
Fromthepageyou'regoingtoaddthelinkto:
clicktheEditthispageicon,
clickthelineyouwanttoaddthelinkon,thenchoose:
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 whethertoaddthetextbetweensquarebrackets[[linktothepagetobecreated]].Oncesaved,the
textenteredbetweenbracketswillbetransformedintoalinktoanewemptypage,
ortoclicktheInsert/EditWikiLinkiconintheeditortoindicatethenameofthenewpagetobe
created,
clickSave.

19.3Addaneworphanpage
By clicking the Add new page link inside the dropdown menu icon, you create a new page,
unrelatedtotherestofthewiki.Thisisawaytoprepareapagewhichwilltemporarilynotbe
visibletousers(atleastnotthroughusualways).
Note:OrphanpagescanbelistedfromtheAllpageslinkinthedropdownmenu.

19.4Commentingapage
ByclickingtheDiscussthispageicon,yougetaccesstoaformtoaddandseecomments.Thisarea
isvisibleandcanbeupdatedbyanyuser.
Otheractionscanbeexecutedonwikipages:
Icons

Features
Checkthehistoryofchangesofapage
Showalistofpageslinkedtothecurrentpage
Deletethecurrentpage
ExportthepageasanHTMLdocument
ExportthepageasaPDFdocument
Getanemailnotificationofallchangesmadetothispage
Makeapagevisible/invisibletolearners
Lock/Unlockapageforeditionbylearners

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19.5Otherwikifeatures
Themenulocatedinthetopleftcorner(dropdownmenu)givesaccesstootherwikifeatures,
whateverthecurrentpageis:
searchtitlesorcontentsofpages,
displayalistofallthepages,
listonlythelastmodifications,
removethewholewiki(becarefulwiththiscommand),
seethemostactiveusers,
seethemostvisitedpages,
seethemostupdatedpages,
seeallorphanpages,
seeallemptypages(wantedpages)createdthatwayasawaytosuggestsomebodyelsetoadd
contentonthattopic.

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Chapter20Links
Thistoolallowsyoutcreatealibraryofinternalandexternallinkstocompleteacourseorlearning
path.

20.1Linkscategories
Chamiloallowsthecreationoflinkscategories,whichallowsforabetterlinksstructurewhenyou
havemanyofthem.
ClicktheAddacategoryicon,
Giveaclearnametoyourcategory,
Addadescriptionifneeded,
ClickAddacategory.

Illustration97:LinksAddcategory

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20.2Links
Alinkcanbeaddedinacategoryorattherootlevel:

Illustration98:LinksAddlink
Toaddalink:
ClicktheAddalinkicon,
Addthelink'sURL,
Giveitalabel,
Addadescriptionofwhatisontheothersideofthelink,ifdesired,
Selectacategoryifdesired,
Choosewhethertoshowthelinkonthecoursehomepageornot,
ClicktheSavelinkbutton.

20.3Managelinks
Linksmanagementusesthesameactioniconsasusual:
Icons

Features
Updatelinksorcategories
Removelinksorcategories
Reorganizelinksandcategoriesorder
Show/Hidealink

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20.4Linkschecker
Sinceversion1.8.8.4,youcan(manually)checkwhetheralinkisalive.Todothis,clickthesmall
magnifiericonontherightsideofthelink.Afterafewseconds(orless),aniconappears.Agreen
iconmeansthelinkisvalid.Arediconmeansthelinkisbroken.
Note:thelinkscheckereffectivelytriestoconnecttothegivenlinkfromtheserver.Assuch,alink
thatworksforyoucouldnotworkfortheserver,andviceversa.

Illustration99:LinksLinkchecker

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Chapter21Announcements
This toollets yousendamessagebyemailtoyourlearnersand/ortopublishaninformation
directlyinthecourse.
Theseannouncementscanbeusedtoinformthelearners,forexample,oftherecentavailabilityofa
document,oftheexpirationdayofanassignmentoranypieceofinformationrelatedtothecourse.

Illustration100:AnnouncementsList

21.1Addanannouncement
Onceinsidethetool:
clicktheAddanannouncementicon,
by default, the announcement will be sent to all users. It is possible to update the list of
destinations:

Illustration101:AnnouncementsChoosedestinations
theannouncementcanbesentbyemailtothecourseusers(checktheSendthisannouncementby
emailtoselectedgroups/usersbox),
addanannouncementtopic,
addamainannouncementtest,
addanattachmentifdesired,
clickSendannouncement.
Note:sinceversion1.8.8.4,youcanusetokensinsideyourannouncements(justcopypastethem).
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Thesetokenswillbeautomaticallyreplacedbythecorrespondingvaluewhensent(byemail)or
shown(ontheplatform)totheusers.

Illustration102:AnnouncementsCreation

21.2Announcementsmanagement
Announcementscanbemanagedthroughcommonactionicons:
Icons

Features
Updatethetitle,bodyorsettingsoftheannouncement
Deletetheannouncement
Reorderannouncementsposition
Show/Hideannouncementtolearners

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Indicatestheannouncementhasbeenpublishedintheplatformas
wellassentbyemail
Indicatestheannouncementhasbeensenttosomeusersofthecourse
(iftheannouncementissenttoallusers,thisicondoesnotappear)

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Chapter22Glossary
Chamilointegratesaglossarytooltoallowtheteachertodefinetermsorexpressionsthesameway
as a dictionary. No term is defined by default and it is the teacher's responsibility to define
importantterms.

Illustration103:GlossaryTermslist

22.1Newterm
Toaddanewterm:
clickonAddnewglossaryterm,
givetheterm'sname,
givetheterm'sdefinition,
clicktheSavetermbutton.
Adefinitioncanbeenrichedbyimagesandlinks.

22.2Glossarytermsmanagement
Glossarytermsmanagementisdonethroughtheusualactionicons:
Icons

Features
Editterm
Deleteterm
Showthelistview
Showthetableview

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Chapter23Attendances
In2010,afamousinstituteinLimacofinancedthedevelopmentoftheattendancestoolaswellas
the courseprogress tool(seecorrespondingchapter) with a setof basicspecifications. Later,the
toolgotimprovedprogressivelythankstocommunityusers(throughmanysuggestions)andsome
customers(throughfinancing).Today,it'samoreadvancedtool,butitisstillveryyoung,which
explainsitsinterfacewhichleavesspaceforimprovement.
Thetoolisstructuredattwolevels:attendancesheets,whichallowforthedefinitionofseveraltypes
ofattendances,ormaybeseveralteacherstakingnoteofattendances,forexampleonesheetfor
laboratorysessionsandonesheetfortheoreticalcourses,andattendancedates,whicharethedates
ofsessionstoattendto,inanyspecificsheet.
Beforeyougetdeeperintothischapter,makesureyouhavelearnerssubscribedtoyourcourse,as
otherwiseyourtestswillbeallbutrealisticorcomplete.Ifyouneed,reviewtheUserschapteron
page78.Withoutlearnerssubscribed,itispracticallyimpossibletomakesenseoftheattendances
tool.

23.1Createanattendancesheet
The process to create a complete attendance sheet is long enough but it is scheduled for
improvementsinnextversionsofChamilo.Inshort,youwillhaveto:
fillashortform
seethecurrentlistofdates(thefirsttime,therearenodates)
createdates(generallywithaspecificrepetitionfrequency)
getbacktothelistofdates

Illustration104:AttendancesNewattendancesform

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Illustration105:AttendancesIntermediarystepfordatescreation
InIllustration105,clickontheclockicontoaccessthescreentoregisterdatesandtimesforthe
sessionstobeattended.

Illustration106:AttendancesCreatingdatestobeattended
Selectthedateofthefirstcoursesession.Ifyouwanttoindicateaweeklyrepetition,checkthe
Repeat date box andselect the Weekly option from the dropdown box.Then indicate the last
repetitiondateforthisweeklysequence.

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Illustration107:AttendancesListofcreateddates
Thegenerateddateslistappears.Youcanupdateorremoveanyofthesedatesincaseofexception
(theremightbeaholidaypreciselyononeoftheselecteddates).Clickthefirsticontogobackto
theattendancesscreen.
Bydefault,allattendanceswillappear.Youcanchangethefilterinthedropdownlisttoseeonly
today'sattendances,onlytheonesthatremainoraspecificdate.

Illustration108:AttendancesListofalldates

23.2Takingnoteofattendances
Once you get your course sessions all setup, you'll need to start taking note of your learners'
attendances.Todothat,getinsideyourattendancessheet(Illustration108).You'llseealistof
learners'namesinthefirstcolumn,thenonecolumnforeachattendancedate.Generally,thedefault
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columnenabledwillbethefirstonethathasn'tbeenmodifiedyet.
Bydefault,thesystemassumesalllearnersareattendingthecoursesession,soyouonlytakenote
ofmissinglearners,byuncheckingthelearner'sboxtomarkhisabsence.
Alearnermissingmorethan10%ofthetotalnumberofsessionswillbemarkedbyanorange
background.Alearnermissingmorethan25%ofthesessionswillbemarkedbyaredbackground.
Thesearespecificrateswhichcannot,atthispointintime,bemodifiedinsidetheplatform.
Anattendancesheetcanbeusedintheassessmentstoolasamarkedresource,tobepartofthe
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Chapter24Courseprogress
TheCourseprogress,orCoursediary(thenameofthistoolisstillinadecisionprocess)allowsthe
teachertobuildacourseprogramtobeshown(optionally)onthecoursehomepageandwillinclude
a progress status relative to the current teachers and learners' progress in the scheduled topic
preparation.
Thistoolisonlyusefulinthecaseofsynchronouscourses,inwhichtheteacherprogressesinside
thecourseatthesamerhythmthanthelearners.
Thecourseprogressconfigurationisquiteeasy,althoughquitealongprocess.

24.1Createathematicsection
Thethematicsectionsaretheuppermostunitinthecourseprogress'creation.Youneedtocreate
sectionsinordertobeabletocreateotherlevelsofthestructure.

Illustration109:CourseprogressButtons
Tocreatethefirstsection,createtheNewthematicsectionicon.

Illustration110:CourseprogressCreation

24.2Definethethematicplan
Oncethesectioniscreated,youcanedititsentryinsidetheThematicplancolumn.TheThematic
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plan isthedefinitionoftheobjectives,methodologyandotherdetailsofthepreviouslycreated
courseprogramsection.

Illustration111:CourseprogressThematicplan

24.3Createstepsforthecourseprogress
Thesteps(orthematicadvance)aredatesonwhichyouwillteach(inparticularthecontentofthe
sectionpreviouslydefined)

Illustration112:CourseprogressStepscreation

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You can, for the definition of course sessions dates, recover dates previously defined in the
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Chapter25Agenda
Theagendaisatoolpresentbothinsideeachcourseandasapersonaltooforeachuser.Anagenda
isattachedtoearchcourse.
TheglobalagendaisalsoavailablefromtheAgendatab.Theagendatab(globalagenda)gathersall
eventsofcoursesgowhichtheuserissubscribedandcanbeenrichedwithpersonaleventswhich
willnotappearinotherusers'agendas.Teacherswillseeglobalevents,courseseventsandpersonal
events,andwillbeabletoediteventsfromtheircoursesorpersonalevents.Learnerswillseethe
samebutwillonlybeabletoedittheirownpersonalevents.

Illustration113:AgendaList

25.1Addeventtocourseagenda
clickontheAddeventlink,
clickontheVisibletolinktochoosewhomthisagendaeventwillbevisibleto.Ineachlist(left
columnarepotentialdestinations,rightcolumnare designateddestinations), youcanmultiple
selectpeople.JustholdtheCTRLkeypressedwhileselectingtheusers,
completethe Startdate and Enddate fields: youcanusetheminicalendartoselecttheseby
clickingtheSelecticon
,
iftheeventwillberepeatedovertime,opentheRepeateventsection(clickingtheRepeatevent
link),checktheRepeateventboxandindicatethetypeofperiodicrepetition(day,month,year),
givetheeventaname,
addadescriptiontotheevent(youcanaddanimage,avideo,alink,...),
addanattachment(optional),
clicktheAddeventlink.

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Illustration114:AgendaCreation

25.2Managecourseagendaevents
Daytodayadministrationofeventsintheagendareusesiconsyou'veseenbefore(formost):
Icons

Features
Updatethesettingsordataofanevent(notethatupdatinganevent
doesn'tupdateitsrepetitions)
Deleteanevent(doesn'tdeleteitsrepetitions)
Controlanevent'svisibility
Addanevent
Printtheevent
Displaytheviewbymonth(grid)
Displaytheeventsasalist

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Theeventismeantforaselectedgroupofusers,notallofthem
Copytheeventtotheannouncementtool(incaseyouwanttosendit
byemail)
Importanevent(orseveralevents)iniCalformat

25.3Personalagendatab
Thepersonalagendagroupsalleventsrelatedtotheuser:

Illustration115:AgendaPersonalview
Youcanfiltereventsbyday,weekormonth(asinIllustration115).Justclicktheevent'snametoget
moredetails.
Ifallowedbytheadministrator,userscanaddtheirownpersonaleventstotheiragenda.These
eventswillonlybevisibletothem.

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Chapter26Dropbox
Thedropbox(or Documentssharing)allowsuserstoleavefilesforeachother,tobedownloaded
later and avoid heavy email downloads. Files can be dropped there from a teacher for the
learners,fromalearnertootherlearners(iftheplatformadministratorenabledit)orfromalearner
totheteacher(althoughitisnotmeantfordeliveryofhomeworksorassignments,forwhichthe
Assignmentstoolisthebestoption.
Thetoolissimilartosites like dropbox.io,featurewise,althoughthefeaturepredatesthesite
considerablyandisnowsufferingfromitsoldage.

Illustration116:DropboxFilesreceived
Sharedworkonaspecificdocumentcanbemuchsimplifiedforstudentsandthetoolmanages
versionsveryeasily(seebelow).
Filessentbyausercanbecommentedbythepeoplewhoreceiveit.Thisallowsthecourseteacher
totakenoteofthecontributionofeachstudent.

26.1Createfolders
Theteachercanaddfolderstoorderhisfilesabitbetter.Thesharedfilesfolders(betheysentor
received)areinvisibleforlearnersandareonlytherefororganizationalpurposes.
Tocreateanewfolder:
clickontheAddanewfoldericon,
giveitaname,
clicktheCreatecategorybutton

26.2Sendafiletospecificusers
clicktheShareanewfileicon(bluearrow)
clickthebrowsebuttonandselectthefileonyourcomputer,
intheSendtolist,selectthedestinationpeople(groupscanalsobeselected)holdingtheCTRL
keypressedwhileclickingthenames,
clicktheUploadbutton.

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Illustration117:DropboxSendingafile
1 The Sentto columnindicates whomthefilehasbeensentto,andthedestinationuserscan
immediatelyhaveaccesstothefile.
2 TheReceivedfilestabwillcontainthefilesreceivedfromotherusers(oryourself).
Whensendingthesamefilemultipletimes,thedropboxtoolkeepsallversionsofthefile,without
renamingthembutdifferenciatingthemthroughtheiruploadtime.Thisis,inaway,amanagement
ofthedifferentfilesversions.
Tomaintainasingleversionofafile,checkthe Overwritepreviousversionsofsamedocument?
box.

26.3Managedropboxfiles
Thedropboxtooloffersaseriesofnewmanagementicons:
Icons

Features
Updatethenameofafolder
Deleteafolder
Addacommenttothesharedfile
Showsnexttothenameofanynewfile
Movethefiletoanotherfolder

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Saveonyourcomputeracompressedarchiveofallthefilesinthefolder
Saveacopyofthecorrespondingfileonyourcomputer
Note:Whenalearnerdeletesafilesenttothesystem,thisfileisstillavailabletotheteacher

26.4Readandaddcommentsattachedtoafile
clicktheCommenticonnexttothefile'sname,
readtheexistingcomments,
addacommentinthetextareaavailable,
clicktheSavefeedbackbutton.

Illustration118:DropboxComments

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Chapter27Groups
TheGroupstoolallowsyoutocreateandmanageworkinggroups(bypairforlaboratorypractices,
byfourformoreelaborategroupwork,etc).
Afreshlycreatedgroupisalwaysempty.Youcanfillthemautomaticallyormanually,thenassign
differenttoolstoagroup(documents,agenda,assignments,announcements,forumandwiki).Ifyou
configurethemcorrectly,thesetools canbesetas private spaces forthegroupsthemselves(no
outsidegrouporlearnerwillbeabletoseetheircontents).

Illustration119:GroupsList

27.1Creategroup
Fromthegroupshomepage:
clicktheCreatenewgroup(s)icon,
giveanumberofgroupstocreate(thiswillspeeduptheprocessifyouwanttocreatemorethan
one),
clicktheProceedtogroupscreationbutton,
giveanameandanumberofemptyseatsinthegroup,
clickCreategroup(s).

Illustration120:GroupsCreation

27.2Groupssettings
Fromthegroupshomepage:
clicktheEditsettings(tools)icon,
updatethegroup'snameornumberofseats,
choosewhetheruserscansubscribetothegroupsornot,
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definegrouptutorsandmembers,
clickEditsettings.

27.3Letlearnerssubscribe
Thismodeletslearnerssubscribetothegroupsbythemselves,butitisonlyavailableifyouupdated
thegrouppropertiescorrespondingly.Usingthismethod,theteacheronlypartiallycontrolsthe
initialcompositionofgroups,buthewillstillbeabletoupdatethiscompositionlateron.

Illustration121:GroupsRegistration

27.4Autofillingagroup
Fromthegroupshomepage:
clickthe Addusers icon(representedbyabucket)tofillagroupautomatically.Usethebatch
processing(dropdownlistatthebottom)toautomaticallyfillseveralgroups.
Thegroupscompositionisnotcontrolleddirectly,butyoucanalwaysupdateitafterwardbyediting
thegroups.

Illustration122:GroupsAutofill

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27.5Manualfilling
Inthegroupshomepage,clickthesettingsicon(tools)andaddtutorsandusersmanually:

Illustration123:GroupsManualfilling

27.6Gettingintoagroupspace
Fromthegroupshomepage:
clickthenameofagroup.
TheForums,Documents,Agenda,Assignments,Announcements,Wikiandchatlinksallpointtothe
privatetoolspaceofthesegroups.

Illustration124:GroupsGroupspace
Fromthegroupspace,youcanqueryalearner'sinformationsheetbysimplyclickingonhername
inthelistofmembersinthelowerpartofthepage.
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27.7Overview/Exportofgroupmembers
Inthegroupsoverview,youcanseethelistofgroupsandsubscribedmembers.Theexportfeature,
whichisdescribedinthechapterdedicatedtotheUserstoolisalsoavailablehere:
clickontheExcelexporticon,
openorsavethefileonyourcomputer.

27.8Groupsmanagement
Theindividualmanagementofgroupsreusescommoniconsandafewnewones:
Icons

Features
Updateagroup'ssettings
Deleteagroup(confirmationpopup)andallitscontents
Fillagroupwithusers,randomly
Emptythegroup

27.8.1Batchmanagement
Batchesmanagementallowsyoutoselectseveralgroupsatonceandusethedropdownlistatthe
bottomofthetableto:
deleteor,
addusersor,
unsubscribeusers
fromallgroupsatonce.

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Chapter28Chat
The Chat tool is an instant messaging tool which allows users in a course to exchange ideas,
questionsandanswersinlive,writtenconversation.
ThebigadvantageofthistoolcomparedtoMessengerorothertypesofexternalchattingtoolsisit
worksaspartoftheplatformand,assuch,doesnotrequireanyexternaltooltouseit.Itisthus
guaranteedtoworkonallcomputerswiththecapabilitytouseChamilo.
Theonlydisadvantageisitmighttakealittlelongerthannormalchattoolstoupdateandhaveless
advanced,morecomplexfeatures.Thetimebetweentwoupdatesofthechatisgenerallyof3
seconds.Thiscanonlybemodifiedbyadeveloper.

Illustration125:ChatTeacherLearnerconversation
Ifusershaveconfiguredtheirpictureinthe Socialnetwork(orProfile)tab,itwillappearnextto
theirname.It'suptotheteachertodeletepreviousmessageswhenheconsidersitnecessary.

28.1Sendamessage
Enterthetextinsidethefieldlocatedatthebottomofthepage,thenclickthe Sendmessagebutton.
Insidethemessageslist,themessagesfromtheteacherappearwithacorrespondingiconinfrontof
theuser'sname.

28.2Emptymessages
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reconnectthesameday.
Todeleteaconversationbeforestartinganewone,clicktheClearthechatlink.
Note:Chathistorylogsarenormallysavedinsidethedocumentstool,inahiddenfoldercalled
Chathistory.Clearingthechatwillalsodeletethehistoryofthechatforthiswholedate.

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Chapter29Survey
Thistoolallowsyoutoquerytheopinionoflearnersthroughsurveys.

29.1Surveycreation
clicktheCreatesurveyicon,
giveyoursurveyaCode,aTitle,aSubtitle(description),
optionallysetastartandenddatesothesurveyisonlyavailableforalimitedtime,
decidewhetheryoursurveywillbeanonymous(users'answerswillnotbeidentifiable),
giveasruveyintroduction(thisisatextthatwillappearjustbeforetheuserstartsthesurvey),
giveaFinalthanksmessage(thiswillappearwhentheusersfinishthesurvey,tothankthemand
maybeinformthemofwhentheresultswillbecompiledandused),
in the Advanced settings,choose whether youwant this survey to be considered an essential
elementoftheassessmentstool(Gradebook), whetheryouwantittobeattachedtoaparent
survey(notdocumentedinthisguideyet),whetheryouwanttohaveonequestionperpageand
whetheryouwanttoshufflequestions.
clicktheCreatesurveybutton.

Illustration126:SurveysCreationform

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29.2Addsurveyquestions
Oncetheskeletonofyoursurveyhasbeencreated,you'llhavetodefineaseriesofquestionsfroma
fewpredefinedtypes:openquestions,percentageselection,multipleanswers,etc.

Illustration127:SurveysQuestionscreation

29.3Surveypreview
Oncethequestionshavebeencreated,youcanpreviewyoursurveybeforepublishingit:
clickthePreviewicon,
thepreviewscreendrivesyouthroughthequestionsasifyouwerealearner:

Illustration128:SurveysPreviewsurvey

29.4Surveypublication
Ifyouaresatisfiedwiththesurvey,youjustneedtopublishit(makesureyouarenotcontradicting
yourself with the start date, sending the invitation by email for a survey which is not yet
available...):
clickthePublishicon
selecttheusersyou'llsendthesurveyinvitationto
add additional invitations through email addresses directly (semicolumn separation). These
invitationscanbesenttopeoplewhoarenotregisteredasusersoftheplatform(tomaybesendthe
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invitationtopotentialcustomers,ortoparentsoflearners)
addanemailtopicandinvitationmessage
choosewhetherthisisafirstinvitationmessage,aremindertouserswhodidn'tansweryet,ora
remindertoallusers
clickthePublishsurveybutton.

Illustration129:SurveysPublicationoptions

29.5Results
Analyzing surveyresults can be an exhaustingprocess. The tools provided in this section will
probablybeofgreatassistance.

Illustration130:SurveysResults
Thesetoolsallowyoutosee:
adetailedreportbyquestion,
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acomparativetable,
acompleteandexportable.csvor.xlsreport.

29.6Surveysmanagement
Aseriesofcommoniconsaremadeavailableforthemanagementofsurveys,aswellasafew
specificicons.
Icons

Features
Updatethesurveysettings
Deletesurveys
Emptysurveyresults
Surveypreview
Publishsurvey
Accessreportfeatures
Changetheorderofthequestionsinsidethesurvey

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Chapter30Notebook
The Personalnotes (or Notebook) toolisakindofnotepadattachedtoeachcourse.Itallowsthe
userstotakenoteofthingstheywouldotherwisewriteonapieceofpaper.

Illustration131:NotebookList
Notescanbeupdatedasneededanddatesofcreationandoflastupdatearesaved.Notestakenbya
userarenotvisiblebyotherusers.Inthissense,theyare,indeed,personal.

30.1Notescreation
clickontheAddnewnoteinmypersonalnotebookicon,
giveyournoteashorttitle,
writedownyournote,
clickCreatenote.

Illustration132:NotebookCreationform

30.2Sortnotes
Notescanbesortedbycreationdate,lastupdateorbytitle.

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Chapter31Projects
The Projects or Blogs tool was developed in 2006 at the request of a large Belgian telecom
company.Theideabehinditwastoimplementablogwithlightweightprojectmanagementfeatures,
whichwastaggedunderthenameofSmartblogs.Itsphilosophyistoallowfortheassignmentof
taskstothelearnersinordertowritethecontentsofastorytellingtypeblog.
Theteachertakestheresponsibilitytochooselearnerswhowillcontributetothebloganddefines
theprojectandtheassignmentoftasks(orrolestakenbythelearners).Thecreationofarticlesis
sharedbetweentheteacherandthelearners.
Thetoolcan,however,beusedasaclassicalblog.
Note:Whenanewprojectiscreated,itappearsinthelistofcourseproductiontoolsonthecourse
homepage.Itsvisibilitycanbecontrolledastheoneofothertools.Asamaindifferencewithother
tools,onecancreateseveralblogsinthesamecourse.Theywillappearasmultipleentriesinthe
productiontoolinmuchthesamewayaswhatcanbedonewithlinksandlearningpaths.

Illustration133:ProjectsList

31.1Projectcreation
Fromtheprojectshomepage:
clicktheCreateanewprojecticon,
giveyourprojectanameandashortdescription,
clickSaveblog.

Illustration134:BlogsBlogcreation

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31.2Subscribelearnerstoaproject
Yourcanmanageseveralprojectsinsideasamecourse.Youcanthusselectthelearnerswhowill
contributetoeachprojectindividually.
Tosubscribelearnerstoaprojectfromthehomepageofthisproject:
clicktheUsersmanagementicon,
checktheboxesnexttothelearnersyouwanttoassociatetothisproject,
clicktheValidatebutton.

Illustration135:ProjectsUsersmanagement

31.3Newarticle/task
Fromtheproject'shomepage:
clicktheNewtaskicon,
givethearticleaname,
writedowntherealarticle,
attachadocument(optional),
clicktheSavebutton.

31.4Rolesmanagement
TheRolesmanagementiconcanbeusedtocreatedetailedtasksofaprojectsteportoassignroles
tothemembersofaproject.
Tocreateanewtask(orrole):
clicktheRolesmanagementicon,
clicktheAddanewrolelink,
givetheroleatitle,descriptionandassignpermissions,
chooseacolorthankstothedropdownbar,
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Thenewroleappearsintheroleslist.

Illustration136:ProjectsNewrole

31.5Assignaroletoalearner
Oncetherolehasbeencreated,youmustassignittoalearner:
clickontheAssignroleslink,
selectalearnertoassigntheroleto,
selecttherolestobeassigned,
selectadatetoachievetheobjectiveoftherole,
clicktheValidatebutton.

Illustration137:ProjectsAssignarole

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31.6Indicatetheexecutionofatask
Whetherforateacheroralearner,tasksassignedtoanyuserareshownatthebottomleftofthe
projectspageundersectionMytasks.
Toindicatethesuccessfulexecutionofatask:
clickonanexecutedtask,
intheprojectstepslist,selectthearticleyouwanttoattachthetaskto,
intheresultingscreen,fillthetaskname,acommentandoptionallyadocument,
clickSave.
Theexecutionreportofthetaskappearsasacommenttothearticle.

Illustration138:ProjectsTaskscomments

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31.7Learners'taskmanagementreport
ByclickingtheUsersmanagement,yougetalistofuserstobesubscribedtotheprojectandalistof
usersalreadysubscribed.

Illustration139:ProjectsUsersmanagement

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Chapter32Coursesettings
Thesettingstoolallowsyoutoupdatethebehaviourofthecourse(mostoptionsaffectseveral
tools).Althoughitisplacedinaremotelocationatthebottomofthepage(andattheendofthis
manual),itisgenerallyagoodideatouseitatthebeginningofyourcoursetomanagesubscription
settingsandcourseaccesses(seefurther32.2Visibilityandaccesssection).
Note: Course tutors using the course inside the session will not have access to this tool as
configurationchangesmightaffectothersessions.

32.1Updategeneralcoursesettings
Inthissection,youanalways:
updateteachersandthecoursetitle,
updatethegeneralcategorytowhichthecoursebelongs,
updatethelanguageinwhichthecourseinterfaceisset(itcanbesettoanotherlanguagethanthe
oneoftheplatform,whichisparticularlyusefulforimmersivelanguagecourse).

Illustration140:CoursesettingsGeneral
Sinceversion1.8.8,youcanalsouploadanimagethatwillrepresentyourcourse.Itwillappearin
thecoursecatalog.Itisaneasywaytomotivatelearnerstosubscribetoyourcourse(thisshouldbe
combinedwithanicecoursedescription,asshortlydescribedin10.2.1Coursedescriptiononpage
24)

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Illustration141:CoursescatalogExampleofcoursesillustrations
Note:thedepartmentisafeatureforwhichsupporthasbeendroppedsofar.Dependingonvisual
styles,thedepartmentmightappearasalinkinthecampusheader(forold,deprecatedstyles).This
isalladepartmentwillchange.InmorerecentversionofChamilo1.8,ifyouneedtomanage
coursesbydepartmentsinsideauniversity,werecommendyouusethemultiurlfeature,described
intheadministrator'sguide,littlebrotherofthisguide.

32.2Visibilityandaccess
TheCourseaccesssectionallowsyoutodefinehowopentheaccesstoyourcoursewillbethrough
theCoursevisibilitysettings(alreadydefinedinChapter7onpage18).
Theadditionaloptionsallowyoutoslightlyalterthesesettings.
Finally,thecoursepasswordisasimplewordorsentencewhich(ifsettoanythingotherthan
empty)willberequiredtosubscribetothecourse.Oncesubscribed,itisnotnecessarytogivethe
passwordanymore.

32.3Emailnotifications
Emailnotificationsareagoodwaytokeeptheteacherinformed,inrealtime,ofcertainevents
happeninginhiscourse.

Illustration142:CoursesettingsEmailnotifications
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Inthissection,youcanchoosetoreceiveanemailnotificationif:
ausersubscribedtoyourcourse(thisfeaturehastobeenabledbytheplatformadmin),
anewfileissubmittedintheAssignmentsortheDropboxtools,
atestispassedbyalearner.
Furthermore,itispossibletosetanemailnotificationtoalluserswhenanew assignmentis
created.

32.4Userrights
Thissectionallowsyoutogivespecialpermissionstousersinthelimitedcontextofyourcourse:
addeventstothecourseagenda,
addannouncementsinthecourse.
Italsoallowsyoutohidepersonaluserpicturesintheforums,aswellasdecidewhetherusershave
accesstotheuserslist.Thisisindependentofthevisibilityofthetoolinthecoursehomepageand
isarealaccesschange(thevisibilityoftoolsisonlyahomepagesettinganddoesnotpreventusers
toenterthetooliftheyknowtheURL).

Illustration143:ConfigurationsettingsUserspermissions

32.5Chatsettings
Byselectingthecorrespondingoption,choosewhetherthechatopensinthepageorinanew
window.

Illustration144:CoursesettingsChatsettings

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32.6Learningpathsettings
Chamilo includes several graphical packages for the platform. These styles can be selected to
displaythecoursedifferently,independentlyfortheglobalplatformstyle.

Illustration145:CoursesettingsLearningpathsettings
Iftheplatformadministratorenabledthisfeature,theteachercanchangethegraphicalstyleofhis
course.Anotheroptionallowsthechangeofstyleperlearningpath,whichisyetanotherlevelof
control.
AlearnercouldtheoreticallyenterhisChamilocampus,seetheplatforminaparticularvisualstyle,
mostlyblue,enteracourseandseethestylechangetored,thenenteralearningpathandseethe
stylemostlygreen...Forvisualcomfort,itisrecommended,however,toavoidstylechangesifthey
arenotjustifiedbyarealpedagogicalreason.
TheautolaunchfeaturehasbeenaddedinChamilo1.8.8.4andallowstheteachertoselectone
specificlearningpathtoautostartwhentheuserentersthecoursehomepage.
Inordertousethisfeature,you'llneedto:
enabletheoptioninthecoursesettings
save
openthelearningpathslist
clickontherocketiconwhichrepresentstheautolaunchofoneofthelearningpaths

Illustration146:LearningpathsAutolaunch
Onlyonelearningpathcanbesetasautolaunchatatime,anditwillstartassoonasthelearner
entersthecoursehomepage.Otherlearningpathsshowagrayrocketicon.
Totesttheeffectofthisoption,you'llhavetoconnectasalearnerasithasbeendisabledfor
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teachersforpracticalreasons.
Note:thelearnerwillbeabletogetbacktothecoursehomepagefromtheleftmenuinsidethe
learningpath.Theideaisnottodisableorhidethecoursehomepage,butrathertospeedhis
accesstothecoursecontent.

32.7Thematicadvanceconfiguration
ThissectionallowsyoutochoosewhichoptionsoftheCourseprogress(orThematicadvance)will
bevisibleonthecoursehomepage(ontherightsideoftheintroductionsection).

Illustration147:CoursessettingsCourseprogress
Theseoptionsrequireagoodunderstandingofthecourseprogresstool.Theresultsofthethird
option,forexample,willbesimilartotheonesshowinIllustration148below).

Illustration148:CourseprogressDisplayoncoursehomepage

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Chapter33Backup
Chamilosimplifiesthecoursemaintenancetasksbysplittingmaintenancetoolsfromthecourse
settings. Deleting, emptying, copying, saving or recovering the contents of a course (party or
completely)canbeexecutedquickly.

Illustration149:BackupGeneral
Note:Features forsaving,copying,recoveringetc.havebeendevelopedwiththeintentionof
managingcontent.Forthisreason,interactionswithorbetweenusersarenotsaved.Tosavethem,
you'llhavetoaskyourplatformadministratortodoafullbackupoftheportal. Ifyouarethe
administrator,thisprocedureisdescribedintheadminguide.

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33.1Createbackup
Forsecurityorproceduralreasons,itisrecommendedtocreateabackupcopyofthecomplete
contentsofyourcourse.Thisprocedureisautomated.Itallowsyoutocreateacompletebackupora
partialbackup,basedonyourselectionofelementstosave,throughafewsimpleclicks.
Tostartthebackup:
clickontheCreatebackuplink,
onthepagethatshows,selectwhetheryouwantafullcopyorjustafewelements(inthiscaseyou
willhavetopickthemonthenextpage),
clicktheCreatebackupbuttontolaunchtheprocedure.
Thebackupismadeavailableintheformofacompressedfilewhichyoucandownloadonyour
computer.Itisalsostoredontheserverforquickrestorationifneeded.

Illustration150:MaintenanceBackupcreation

33.2Importbackup
Each backup is a compressed file (a Zip file) which is stored on the server (in the archive/
directory).Itcanalsobedownloadedonyourcomputer.
Chamiloalsoallowsyoutoimportthecontentsofabackupcopyinsideanewemptycourse.This
canbeusefulforateachercreatinganewcourse.
Tostarttheimport:
clicktheImportbackuplink,
choosethesourceofbackup:eithera.zipfileonyourcomputeroronestoredontheserver,
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 choosewhetheryouwanttoimportthewholecourseoronlyspecificsections(tobeselectedin
thenextscreen),
decidewhethertoduplicatespecificfilesduringtheimportationoperationortoreplacethem,
clickImportbackuptostarttheimport.

Illustration151:MaintenanceImport
Note:Amessagewillconfirmthebackuprestorationexecutedsuccessfully

33.3Copycourse
Thisfeatureallowsyoutoduplicatewholeorpartofacoursetoanother(empty)course.Touseit,
youfirstneedtohaveanothercourseavailabletocopyitto.
Fromthemaintenancepage:
clickCopycourse,
selectthedestinationcourse
selecttheelementstocopy(wholeorpartsoftheorigincourse)
selectwhattodoincasethefilesinthedestinationcoursealreadyexist,
clicktheCopycoursebutton.
Note:Amessagewillconfirmifthecoursecopywassuccessful

33.4Emptythiscourse
Thistoolempties(recycles)thewholecourse(oronlyafewelements).Itdeletesthedocuments,
forums,links,etc.Thisprocedurecanbeexecutedafteracoursehasendedandyouwanttostart
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anewinthesamespace.Ofcourse,itisgenerallyrecommendedtokeepahistoryofthesecourses.
Warning:Beforeyouemptythecourse,makesureyoutakeabackupcopy,justincase!
Toemptyacourse:
clickontheEmptythiscourselink,
selectwhetheryouwanttoemptythewholecourseorjustspecifictools,
clicktheEmptythiscoursebuttontoproceed.

Illustration152:MaintenanceEmptycourse

33.4.1Deletethecoursearea
ClicktheDeletethecoursearealinktodeletethecoursecompletelyfromtheserver.
Giventhefactthere'snowaybackfromthis,wehighlyrecommendyouconsiderthistwicebefore
confirmingit.
Warning:Thisfeatureshouldbeusedwithextremecaution!

Illustration153:MaintenanceCoursedeleting

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Chapter34Reporting
Thereportingtool,alsoavailablethroughthetabofthesamename)isonlyspecifictoacourseif
youusethereportinglinkfrominsidethecoursetogettoit.Itallowsyoutogetanoverviewof
what'shappeninginsidethecourse,whiletheReportingtaballowsyoutogetanoverviewofwhat's
happeninginsideallyourcoursesorsessions.Inthischapter,we'llanalyzetheReportingtab.Just
knowthattheReportinglinkinsideacourseisjustafilteredversionofthefollowingandhasbeen
analyzedindetailsinChapter15Reportingonpage71.

34.1Owncoursesandsessionsreporting
Thefirstsynthesistableshowsthelistofcoursesandsessionsofwhichyouareresponsible.Each
entryshowssomestatisticaldatawhichallowsyoutotracktheprogress andtheresults ofall
learnersasanaveragevalue.

Illustration154:ReportingGeneralcoursesandsessionsreporting
Byclickingthe Details icon(doublebluearrow),you'llgetaccesstoamoredetailedlistforthis
specificcourseorspecificsession.ClickingonanyDetailsiconinanyofthosescreenswillgetyou
atadeeperlevelofdetails.Thereareabout45levelsofdetailsandthisguidedoesnotcoverthem
all.Werecommendyoutakesometimetohavealookthroughalltheoptionsandseewhichreport
isthemostsuitedtoyourneeds.

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Chapter35Socialnetwork
Chamiloallowsteachersandlearnerstousesimpleprofileandsocialnetworkfeatures.Aninternal
messagingsystemisavailabletousersanditispossibletocreategroupsofinterest.Notethatsome
ofthesefeaturesneedtobeenabledbytheplatformadministrator.

Illustration155:SocialnetworkHome

35.1Updateprofileinformation
Toupdateyourpersonaldetails,gototheSocialnetworktab:
clicktheEditprofilelink,
updatethefields,
clickSavesettings.
Simpleprofileoptionsallowyoutoupdateyourpictureandlanguage.Theextendedprofile(if
enabledbytheadministrator)allowyoutoadd:
Mycompetences,
Mydiplomas,
WhatIamabletoteach,
Myproductions,
Mypersonalopenarea.

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Illustration156:SocialnetworkExtendedprofileupdate

35.2Internalmessaging
FromtheSocialnetworktab,leftmenu,theMessagesentryallowsyoutosendorreceivemessages.
Itissimilartomostmessagingtools.

Illustration157:SocialnetworkInternalmessagingInbox
Towriteamessagetoanotheruser(orafriend)subscribedtotheplatform:
clicktheMessageslinkbelowyourpicture,
clicktheComposemessageicon,
startwritingthefirstlettersofthenameoftheusertowritetoandChamilowillautocompleteit,
enterthetopicandmessage(optionallyyoucanaddanattachedfile),
clicktheSendmessagebutton.
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Note:Iftheotheruserhaschosento,themessagewillalsobesenttohisemailasanotificationof
internalmessage.However,hewillhavetoentertheplatformtoansweryou.

35.3Friends
Inthe Socialnetwork tab,youcanmakecontactsandinvitethemas Friends (whichisaliberal
notionofthefriendtitle).Youcansearchpeoplethrough:
clickingtheInvitationslinkintheleftmenu,
searchforfriends'names,
clickSearch.
By simply entering a few characters of the user firstname or lastname, Chamilo will help by
proposingalistofusersmatchingthesecharacters.Theinvitationcanthenbesenttotheuser,who
canchoosewhethertoacceptorrefuseit.

Illustration158:SocialnetworkInvitationreceived
The Friends linkgathersallfriendsyouhavelinkedtoontheplatform.Itallowsyoutoseethe
sharedprofileoftheuserandsendhimamessagewithaclickonhisname.

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Illustration159:SocialnetworkSharedprofile

35.4Socialgroups
This tab gathers all groups that exist on the platform. These groups can only be created by
administrators,unlesstheyhaveenabledthisoptiontoallusers.
Therearetwogroupsaccesstypes:
public,everybodycanjoin,
private,thegroupadminmustauthorizethemembershiprequest.

Illustration160:SocialnetworkSocialgroups
TheMygroupsentrygathersthegroupsofwhichyouareamember.Thesegroupsworkasaforum.
Theadmnistrator(ormoderator)createsdiscussiontopicsandusersstartcontributing.
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Illustration161:SocialnetworkSocialgroupsinterface

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Chapter36Sessionview
SinceChamilo1.8.8,anewviewtypeisavailablefromthe Mycourses tabwhenyourplatform
makesuseofcoursesessions.Itisaspecialsessionsscreen,inwhichyoucanfindadifferent(tosay
theleast)wayofpresentingcoursesandtheirresources(learningpathsandexercises,mostly).

Illustration162:MycoursesSessions
AsamaindifferencefrompreviousversionsofChamilo,thesessiontitleisnowalinkwhichleads
directlytoapageofwhichthepresentationdiffersinmanyaspectsfromtherestofChamilo.Itisa
newwaytopresentthingsthatwewillstudyduringthenextmonths,thankstoyourhelpand
feedback.LetusknowwhatyouthinkontheChamiloforum:http://www.chamilo.org/
This newconceptdepends highlyonanew timebasedprogrammingofexercises andlearning
paths.Assuch,itisnotwellsuitedtoasynchronousteaching(purelyremoteelearning):bymaking
sureeachexerciseandlearningpathhasastartandenddate,thedatashowninthesescreenstake
muchmoresense.

Illustration163:SessionsNewsessionsscreen
Thereare4mainoptionsonthefirstscreen:Courses,Learningpaths,MyMCQ(MultipleChoice
Questions),andMystatistics
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36.1Coursestab
Thecoursestabgivesalistofcoursesavailableinsidethesessions.Clickononeofthesecoursesto
filtertherestofthetabsandshowonlyitemsfromthiscourse.
Clickingdirectlyononeofthetabswillshowacompletelistofallcorrespondingresourcesinthe
session(thelearningpathstabwillshowalllearningpathsofthesession,allcoursesmixed,unless
youpreviouslyclickedonespecificcourseinthefirsttab).

36.2Learningpathstab
Thistabgivealistoflearningpathsfromthesession,filteredonthecourseifyouclickedacourse
inthefirsttab.

Illustration164:SessionsLearningpaths
Thepublicationdateofeachlearningpathsgivesyouanideaofthelearningpathschronology.In
caseyouhaveseveralsimultaneouscourses(whichmightbethecasinasession)whichalloffer
severallearningpaths,organizingtherightlearningpathsschedulewillgiveaclearindicationtothe
learneroftheexpectedorderinwhichweexpecthimtofollowthem.
Fromthisscreen,thelearnercanenterdirectlythelearningpathsbysimplyclickingtheirname.
Note:therearethreeviewtypesforlearningpaths:All,Perweek,Bycourse.Theydonotaffectthe
waycontentsareordered,sodon'thesitatetotrythemout.

36.3MyMCQtab
Thistabcontainsallexercisesofallcoursesinthesession,sortedbypublicationdate.Giventhe
results of these exercises are given in a comparative fashion (in comparison to other learners'
results)andinachronologicalorder,itistwiceasimportanttodefinepublicationdatesforallyour
exercises.

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Illustration165:SessionsMyQCMtab
Exerciseswhichremainwithoutattemptsareindicatedbyayellowstar.Thenumberofattemptsis
indicatedaswellastheexercisestesultsandthebestresultsobtainedbywhicheverlearnerofthe
session.Finally,thepositionshowshisresults'positionasalearnerwithinthissession.
Byclickingthetesttitle,thelearnergetsdirectlyintothetestor,incaseallattemptshavebeenused,
intothetestresultsscreen.

36.4Mystatisticstab
The Mystatistics tabbringsaninnovativesetoffeaturesifpublicationdateshavebeenusedfor
exercises.Learnerswillthenbeabletoseeavisualresultoftheirscoresasacomparisonwithother
learners.

Illustration166:SessionsMystatisticstab
Byclickingthedoublebluearrowforanycourse,you'llgetaseriesofmoredetailedresults.

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Illustration167:SessionsStatisticaldetails
Thedetailedviewallowustohaveagraphicalvisualizationofthescoresrepartition.Eachbar
represents a rank of results (020%, 2140%, 4160%, 6180%, 81100%). The global chart
representstherepartitionofallstudents'resultsforthisexercise.Theorangebaristhebarinwhich
thecurrentuser'sresultsarelocated.Youcanclickthecharttohaveagreaterversionofthischart.

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Chapter37Appendix
37.1Glossary

Administrator:TheuserwhocontrolsandmanagestheChamiloportalglobally.
Courseadministrator:Seeteacher
Student:Seelearner
Assistantdecourse:alearnerwhoreceivedadditionalrightsinsidethelimitedscopeofa
course:hecantrackotherlearners'resultsandchecktheirassignmentsandanswerstotheir
exercises
Coach:teacherofacourseinsidethecontextofasession
Course:acoursearea,orcoursespace,includingits20orsotools
Learner: Theuserwhohastheright,withinacourse,toaccessresourcesastheteacher
preparedthem
Trainer:Seeteacher
Training:Seecourse.Inversions1.8.5to1.8.8ofChamilo,thetermTrainingreplacedthe
termCourse,whichleadtoanawfullotofconfusion,notonlyinEnglish,butalsoinother
languageswhichdependedonEnglishfortranslations.Thetermcanberedefinedoneach
portaldependingontheneedsthroughtheportaladministrationinterface,butCourseisused
globallynow.
Teacher:Theuserwhocreatesand/orcontrolsacourse(outofthesessioncontext)
Tutor:SeeCoach
User:AnyuserwhohasanaccesstoyourChamiloportal,independentofhisrole

37.2Frequentlyaskedquestions
Thislistofshortquestionsandanswersmighthelpyousortouthowtodospecificthingswith
Chamilowhicharenotexplicitlyexplainedinthepreviouschapters.

37.2.1HowcanIsetasurveyasarequirementtocompleteacourse?
ThenotionofcompletingacoursecanonlybebuiltupontheAssessmentstool,bysettingupa
certificatethatwillonlybegeneratedwhenachievingacertainsetoflearningobjectives(exercises,
learningpaths,assignments,etc).Surveyscanthenbeconfiguredasalockingmechanismwhere
astudentcannotgetacertificateifhedoesn'tcompletethesurvey.
Todothis,gotothesurveytoolandcreateyoursurvey.InAdvancedsettings,checktheQualifyin
gradebookboxandselectaweightof50(yes,50,that'susuallyquitelarge).
NowgototheAssessmentstoolandclickthepercentageicon(Weightinreport).Whateverthetotal
weighthasbeensetto,ensurethatthesurveyisworthhalfofit(ifthetotalweightis100,thesurvey
mustweight50,butyoucanalsosetthetotalweightto200andmakethesurveyweigh100).The
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otherobjectives,combined,willbeworthhalftheweight.Thismeansthat,evenifthelearnerhas
thebestresults,hewillonlyeverbeabletoachievea50%score,whichshouldn'tbeenoughtoget
thecertificate.Becausethesurveyisjustayes/notypeofresult(answeredornotanswered),thereis
noothereasywaytomakethesurveybearequiredelement.
Oncethelearnerhascompletedthesurvey,hisresultswilljumpuptothesufficientresulttogethis
certificate.
Justmakesurethattheavailabilitydatesforyoursurveydonotpreventcompletelyausertogethis
certificate,bynotbeingabletotakethevalidationsurvey.

37.2.2HowcanIcreateacrosswordstypequestion?
Inanyexercise,createanewFilltheblankstypequestion.Inthequestioneditionbox(onlinemedia
editor),clicktheTableiconandchoosehowmanyrowsandcolumnsyouwantyourcrosswordsto
be.Nowwillthecrosswordswithletters.Onceyou'redone,selectthelettersyouwantuserstofind
outandreplacethemwiththesameletterwithbracketsaroundit.Theseletterswillnowdisappear
fromthestudentviewandthey'llbeabletocompletethetablethatway.

37.3Documentlicense
Allrightreserved.
Rightsgivenbythecopyleftlicensesareindicatedbelow.
Copyright(c)20072i2LSarl.Permissionisgrantedtocopy,distributeand/ormodifythisdocument
underthetermsoftheGNUFreeDocumentationLicense,Version1.2oranylaterversionpublished
bytheFreeSoftwareFoundation;withnoInvariantSections,noFrontCoverTexts,andnoBack
CoverTexts.Acopyofthelicenseisincludedinthesectionentitled"GNUFreeDocumentation
License".
Thecontentsofthistutorialareavailableunderadoublecopyleftlicense:
GNUFDL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt
and
CCBYSA:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bysa/2.0/fr/
Inthetruespiritofsoftwarefreedom,allfixesandupdatestothistutorialarewelcomeatthisemail
address:info@chamilo.org

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37.4Illustrationsindex
Illustration1:Iconslabel....................................................................................................................10
Illustration2:Foldedhelp...................................................................................................................10
Illustration3:Unfoldedhelp...............................................................................................................10
Illustration4:Contextualhelppopup.................................................................................................10
Illustration5:Homepage....................................................................................................................13
Illustration6:"Mycourses"page........................................................................................................14
Illustration7:Chamiloheader.............................................................................................................15
Illustration8:BreadcrumbNavigation...............................................................................................15
Illustration9:Studentview.................................................................................................................15
Illustration10:Personalmenublocks.................................................................................................16
Illustration11:Creatingacourseshortversion...............................................................................16
Illustration12:Createacourseextendedversion............................................................................17
Illustration13:Courseadmintools.....................................................................................................18
Illustration14:CoursesettingsVisibility.........................................................................................18
Illustration15:Sortmycourses..........................................................................................................19
Illustration16:Personalcoursescategories........................................................................................20
Illustration17:Coursescatalog...........................................................................................................20
Illustration18:CoursetoolsClassicaloption..................................................................................22
Illustration19:Productiontoolsinipadtypeview.............................................................................22
Illustration20:CoursehomepageIntroductiontext........................................................................23
Illustration21:Productiontools.........................................................................................................24
Illustration22:ProductiontoolsLearningpaths.............................................................................25
Illustration23:Interactiontools..........................................................................................................27
Illustration24:Administrationtool....................................................................................................29
Illustration25:Productiontools..........................................................................................................31
Illustration26:DocumentsDirectoriescreation..............................................................................32
Illustration27:DocumentsListofdefaultdirectories.....................................................................33
Illustration28:DocumentsIconsUpload......................................................................................34
Illustration29:DocumentsDocumentsupload...............................................................................34
Illustration30:DocumentsDocumentsuploadinprogress.............................................................34
Illustration31:DocumentsDocumentuploadfinished...................................................................35
Illustration32:DocumentsIconsCreation....................................................................................35
Illustration33:DocumentsCreatinganewdocument....................................................................36
Illustration34:DocumentsDownloadacopy.................................................................................37
Illustration35:DocumentsOptions.................................................................................................37
Illustration36:DocumentsQuota....................................................................................................38
Illustration37:ExercisesList...........................................................................................................39
Illustration38:ExercisesSimplecreation.......................................................................................39
Illustration39:ExercisesCreatinganexerciseAdvancedoptions...............................................42
Illustration40:ExercisesQuestiontypes........................................................................................44
Illustration41:ExercisesMultipleanswerquestioncreationform..................................................44
Illustration42:ExercisesFilltheblanks..........................................................................................46
Illustration43:ExercisesOpenquestions.........................................................................................47
Illustration44:ExercisesHotspotquestioncreation........................................................................49
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Illustration45:ExercisesExactcombination...................................................................................50
Illustration46:ExercisesQuestionsdatabase..................................................................................52
Illustration47:ExercisesImportHotPotatoes..................................................................................52
Illustration48:ExercisesImportIMS/QTI2....................................................................................52
Illustration49:ExercisesList...........................................................................................................53
Illustration50:ExercisesResultslist...............................................................................................53
Illustration51:ForumGlobalview..................................................................................................54
Illustration52:ForumDisplaymodes.............................................................................................55
Illustration53:ForumNewcategory...............................................................................................55
Illustration54:ForumForumcreationform....................................................................................56
Illustration55:ForumDiscussionthread........................................................................................58
Illustration56:ForumMarkingathread.........................................................................................60
Illustration57:LearningpathsAccessthroughcourse'shomepage................................................62
Illustration58:LearningpathsList..................................................................................................62
Illustration59:LearningpathsCreation..........................................................................................63
Illustration60:LearningpathsElementseditionpage....................................................................63
Illustration61:LearningpathsSettings............................................................................................64
Illustration62:LearningpathsComponentsedition.......................................................................65
Illustration63:LearningpathsOnlinecreation...............................................................................65
Illustration64:LearningpathsImportingexistingresources..........................................................66
Illustration65:LearningpathsNewsection....................................................................................66
Illustration66:LearningpathsLearner'sview................................................................................67
Illustration67:LearningpathsOrganizeview.................................................................................67
Illustration68:LearningpathsOrganizeviewUploadaudios.....................................................68
Illustration69:LearningpathsImportSCORM..............................................................................68
Illustration70:LearningpathsList..................................................................................................69
Illustration71:LearningpathsPrerequisites....................................................................................70
Illustration72:LearningpathsSelectingprerequisites...................................................................70
Illustration73:CoursesAdministrationtools..................................................................................71
Illustration74:ReportingLearners...................................................................................................71
Illustration75:ReportingDetails.....................................................................................................72
Illustration76:ReportingCoursereporting.....................................................................................72
Illustration77:ReportingNotifyinactivestudents..........................................................................73
Illustration78:ReportingReminderannouncement........................................................................73
Illustration79:AssignmentsOptions...............................................................................................74
Illustration80:AssignmentCreation................................................................................................75
Illustration81:AssignmentsAdvancedsettings..............................................................................76
Illustration82:UsersMainscreen...................................................................................................78
Illustration83:UsersActionbuttons...............................................................................................78
Illustration84:UsersAccessdetails................................................................................................80
Illustration85:AssessmentsExample..............................................................................................81
Illustration86:AssessmentsGeneralsettings.................................................................................82
Illustration87:AssessmentsWeights...............................................................................................82
Illustration88:AssessmentsSkillsranking.....................................................................................83
Illustration89:AssessmentsSkillsrankingAdvanced.................................................................83
Illustration90:AssessmentsCertificatetemplatecreation.............................................................84
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Illustration91:AssessmentsCertificatestemplateslist...................................................................84
Illustration92:AssessmentsClassroomactivity.............................................................................85
Illustration93:AssessmentsClassroomactivitiesFillingresults.................................................86
Illustration94:AssessmentsAddonlineactivity............................................................................86
Illustration95:AssessmentsListview............................................................................................87
Illustration96:WikiMainpage.......................................................................................................88
Illustration97:LinksAddcategory..................................................................................................91
Illustration98:LinksAddlink.........................................................................................................92
Illustration99:LinksLinkchecker..................................................................................................93
Illustration100:AnnouncementsList..............................................................................................94
Illustration101:AnnouncementsChoosedestinations....................................................................94
Illustration102:AnnouncementsCreation.......................................................................................95
Illustration103:GlossaryTermslist................................................................................................97
Illustration104:AttendancesNewattendancesform......................................................................98
Illustration105:AttendancesIntermediarystepfordatescreation.................................................99
Illustration106:AttendancesCreatingdatestobeattended............................................................99
Illustration107:AttendancesListofcreateddates........................................................................100
Illustration108:AttendancesListofalldates................................................................................100
Illustration109:CourseprogressButtons......................................................................................102
Illustration110:CourseprogressCreation.....................................................................................102
Illustration111:CourseprogressThematicplan...........................................................................103
Illustration112:CourseprogressStepscreation............................................................................103
Illustration113:AgendaList..........................................................................................................105
Illustration114:AgendaCreation...................................................................................................106
Illustration115:AgendaPersonalview..........................................................................................107
Illustration116:DropboxFilesreceived........................................................................................108
Illustration117:DropboxSendingafile........................................................................................109
Illustration118:DropboxComments..............................................................................................110
Illustration119:GroupsList...........................................................................................................111
Illustration120:GroupsCreation...................................................................................................111
Illustration121:GroupsRegistration...............................................................................................112
Illustration122:GroupsAutofill...................................................................................................112
Illustration123:GroupsManualfilling.........................................................................................113
Illustration124:GroupsGroupspace............................................................................................113
Illustration125:ChatTeacherLearnerconversation.....................................................................115
Illustration126:SurveysCreationform.........................................................................................117
Illustration127:SurveysQuestionscreation..................................................................................118
Illustration128:SurveysPreviewsurvey.......................................................................................118
Illustration129:SurveysPublicationoptions.................................................................................119
Illustration130:SurveysResults.....................................................................................................119
Illustration131:NotebookList.......................................................................................................121
Illustration132:NotebookCreationform......................................................................................121
Illustration133:ProjectsList.........................................................................................................122
Illustration134:BlogsBlogcreation.............................................................................................122
Illustration135:ProjectsUsersmanagement.................................................................................123
Illustration136:ProjectsNewrole................................................................................................124
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Illustration137:ProjectsAssignarole..........................................................................................124
Illustration138:ProjectsTaskscomments....................................................................................125
Illustration139:ProjectsUsersmanagement.................................................................................126
Illustration140:CoursesettingsGeneral.......................................................................................127
Illustration141:CoursescatalogExampleofcoursesillustrations...............................................128
Illustration142:CoursesettingsEmailnotifications....................................................................128
Illustration143:ConfigurationsettingsUserspermissions...........................................................129
Illustration144:CoursesettingsChatsettings...............................................................................129
Illustration145:CoursesettingsLearningpathsettings................................................................130
Illustration146:LearningpathsAutolaunch................................................................................130
Illustration147:CoursessettingsCourseprogress.........................................................................131
Illustration148:CourseprogressDisplayoncoursehomepage....................................................131
Illustration149:BackupGeneral....................................................................................................132
Illustration150:MaintenanceBackupcreation.............................................................................133
Illustration151:MaintenanceImport.............................................................................................134
Illustration152:MaintenanceEmptycourse.................................................................................135
Illustration153:MaintenanceCoursedeleting..............................................................................135
Illustration154:ReportingGeneralcoursesandsessionsreporting..............................................136
Illustration155:SocialnetworkHome...........................................................................................137
Illustration156:SocialnetworkExtendedprofileupdate.............................................................138
Illustration157:SocialnetworkInternalmessagingInbox.........................................................138
Illustration158:SocialnetworkInvitationreceived......................................................................139
Illustration159:SocialnetworkSharedprofile.............................................................................140
Illustration160:SocialnetworkSocialgroups..............................................................................140
Illustration161:SocialnetworkSocialgroupsinterface................................................................141
Illustration162:MycoursesSessions............................................................................................142
Illustration163:SessionsNewsessionsscreen..............................................................................142
Illustration164:SessionsLearningpaths......................................................................................143
Illustration165:SessionsMyQCMtab.........................................................................................144
Illustration166:SessionsMystatisticstab....................................................................................144
Illustration167:SessionsStatisticaldetails....................................................................................145

37.5Alphabeticalindex
AICC.............................................................................................................................................62,68
AVI......................................................................................................................................................31
feedback..............................................................................................................................................40
fillintheblanks..................................................................................................................................40
Flash....................................................................................................................................................31
forum....................................................................................................................................................9
HotPotatoes.........................................................................................................................................39
HTML.................................................................................................................................................31
IMS/QTI2...........................................................................................................................................39
LibreOffice.........................................................................................................................................31
MP3.....................................................................................................................................................31
MSExcel.........................................................................................................................................31
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MSExcel........................................................................................................................................71
MSPowerPoint................................................................................................................................31
MSWord.............................................................................................................................................31
MSWord..........................................................................................................................................31
OGG....................................................................................................................................................31
OpenOffice.org...................................................................................................................................31
PDF...............................................................................................................................................31,37
Photoshop........................................................................................................................................36
Quicktime.........................................................................................................................................31
score....................................................................................................................................................41
SCORM..................................................................................................................................62,66,68
XLS...............................................................................................................................................39,72

37.6Documenthistory
Date

Collaborator

Contact

Updated

2010

2i2l.fr,AnalBoulier

info@2i2l.fr

RdactiondumanuelpourChamilo1.8.7

April
2011

BeezNest Belgium info@beeznest.com Misejourpour1.8.8,correctifs,miseon

SPRL,YannickWarnier
page,ajoutsdedtails

July
2011

BeezNest Belgium info@beeznest.com Mise jour pour 1.8.8.4 and

SPRL,YannickWarnier
rorganisationdeschapitres;rcriturede
l'introduction, listing des options, ajout
desnouvellesfonctionnalits,rvisiondu
texte. revoir:outilsSuiviandRseau
social.

August BeezNest Belgium info@beeznest.com AddedFAQ,fixesanddetails.

2011
SPRL,YannickWarnier
TranslatedtoEnglish.

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