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   2          CLAROLINE 1.8.8 - README
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   4  
   5  TABLE OF CONTENT :
   6  
   7    1. DESCRIPTION
   8    2. LICENCE
   9    3. CREDITS
  10    4. INSTALL
  11    5. DOCUMENTATION
  12    6. CONTACT
  13    7. NEW FEATURES
  14  
  15  1. DESCRIPTION
  16     ===========
  17  
  18  Claroline is an Open Source software based on PHP/MySQL. It's a collaborative
  19  learning environment allowing teachers or education institutions to create and
  20  administer courses through the web.
  21  
  22  The system provides group management, forums, document repositories, calendar,
  23  chat, assignment areas, links, user profile administration on a single and
  24  highly integrated package.
  25  
  26  Claroline is translated in 35 languages and used by hundreds of institutions
  27  around world. The software was initially started by the University of Louvain
  28  (Belgium) and released under Open Source licence (GPL). Since then, a
  29  community of developers around the world contributes to its development.
  30  
  31  2. LICENCE
  32     =======
  33  
  34  Claroline is distributed under the GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL) version 2.
  35  
  36  See LICENCE.txt
  37  
  38  
  39  3. CREDITS
  40     =======
  41  
  42  See CREDITS.txt file
  43  
  44  
  45  4. INSTALL
  46     =======
  47  
  48  See INSTALL.txt file
  49  
  50    PLEASE ENSURE YOU READ THIS FULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH THE INSTALLATION.
  51  
  52  
  53  5. DOCUMENTATION
  54     =============
  55  
  56  Complete manuals for trainers and students are available in different languages
  57  at :
  58  
  59    http://www.claroline.net/documentation.htm
  60  
  61  
  62  6. CONTACT
  63     =======
  64  
  65          Université catholique de Louvain
  66          54 grand Rue 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve BELGIUM
  67  
  68          phone : 32 (0) 10 47 85 48
  69          email : info@claroline.net
  70          web   : http://www.claroline.net
  71          Fax   : 32 (0) 47 89 39
  72  
  73  
  74  7. NEW FEATURES
  75     ============
  76  
  77  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.8.8 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.8.0
  78  -----------------------------------------------------
  79  
  80  * Bug Fixes, new translation ; For more details, see the changelog on our documentation wiki :
  81    http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.8.x
  82  
  83  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.8.0 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7
  84  -----------------------------------------------------
  85  
  86  This new stable version, that comes with a new logo, offers a bunch of interesting new features :
  87  
  88   * A new default layout
  89   * Module system : build your own Claroline extension
  90   * User rights and profiles are now completely customizable
  91   * Classes management improved
  92   * Personal language selector
  93   * Course Tools Improvements :
  94    o Documents : Download all documents in a compressed file
  95    o Exercises : Import/export your exercises, ...
  96    o Wiki : Internal search engine
  97   * Configuration : many new parameters
  98  
  99  You'll find more information and screenshots about Claroline 1.8 in our detailed claroline 1.8 page :
 100  
 101   * http://www.claroline.net/doc/en/index.php/Claroline_18
 102  
 103  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.7 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.6
 104  -----------------------------------------------------
 105  * Translation
 106    * new greek lang file with 8 corrections (since 1.7.5) by Spiros Ioannou
 107    * the html editor that uses inc/htmlarea/lang/el.js doesn't work with greek
 108    at all because all translations in el.js are 16-bit (UTF-8) while the other
 109    site is iso-8859-7 (8bit). The result is seeing garbage on the editor menus,
 110    buttons etc. I translated el.js with iconv (iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-7) and
 111    I send you the correct one that works ok !
 112  
 113  * Security Fix
 114    * Remote inclusion have been discovered in these scripts.
 115      Platform in register_globals off and/or allow_url_open off are not vulnerable.
 116      * claroline/auth/extauth/driver/postnuke.inc.php
 117      * claroline/auth/extauth/driver/mambo.inc.php
 118      (THANKS TO ZONE-H Team, again)
 119  
 120  * Improve Security
 121    * protect blindness all included file to prevent other injection.
 122  
 123  * Bugs
 124    * Documents and links : directory named 0 (zero) causes claro_delete_file to exit without deleting all files in a directory (bug #478)
 125    * Wiki : now wiki page title is always case sensitive
 126    * Wiki : fix some javascript warning 
 127  
 128  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.6 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.5
 129  -----------------------------------------------------
 130  
 131  * Translations
 132  
 133    * Czech 100% by Zdenek Machek
 134       o Claroline in Czech: http://www.claroline.cz (coming soon)
 135       o Translated for: ZUS Police (http://www.zuspolice.cz)
 136    * Dutch - fine tuning including the missing items by Klaas Kroeze.
 137    * Italian - fine tuning by Fausto Barbarito (http://www.nosmet.com)
 138  
 139  * New layouts
 140  
 141    * 1 new Layout : clarcom.css, a new corporate CSS designed by Laurent Colet
 142                     in the context of an internship at Cerdecam Research Center (Brussels)
 143  
 144  Fixed bugs and improvements
 145  
 146  Bug fix
 147  
 148      * Course settings : Cannot enter URL of the department with the character - in it.
 149                          (fixed by Marina from St-Etienne France)
 150  
 151  Security Fix
 152  
 153  Remote inclusion have been discovered in these scripts. Platform in register_globals off and/or allow_url_open off are not vulnerable. (Discovered by beford and Kevin Fernandez "Siegfried", Zone-H Research Team)
 154  
 155   claroline/admin/admin_class_register.php
 156   claroline/auth/extauth/casProcess.inc.php
 157   claroline/auth/extauth/driver/*.inc.php
 158   claroline/exercice/answer_admin.inc.php
 159   claroline/exercice/exercise_admin.inc.php
 160   claroline/exercice/question_admin.inc.php
 161   claroline/exercice/question_list_admin.inc.php
 162   claroline/exercice/statement_admin.inc.php
 163   claroline/inc/claro_init_local.inc.php
 164   claroline/inc/conf/auth.conf.php.dist
 165   claroline/inc/lib/add_course.lib.inc.php
 166   claroline/inc/lib/event/init_event_manager.inc.php
 167   claroline/inc/lib/export_exe_tracking.class.php
 168  
 169  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.5 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.4
 170  -----------------------------------------------------
 171  
 172  This version integrates the last security fixes of claroline 1.7. We highly recommend to upgrade to this recent version.
 173  
 174  * New translation : Slovenian 100% by Sergej Rinc - http://sergej.rinc.ws
 175  
 176  * New layouts : claroffice.css, caucase.css and netscape.css
 177  
 178  * Bug fixes :
 179      * Add user : Deep redesign of the user addition workflow
 180      * Assigments : Don't update visibility when editing assignment settings
 181      * Forum : Change the way rank moving is done for forums and categories
 182  
 183  * Security fix :
 184      * A security hole in the file editing
 185      * A remote inclusion in scorm export tool
 186      * A securityt bug in password recovery tool
 187  
 188  More info here : http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.7.x
 189  
 190  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.4 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.3
 191  -----------------------------------------------------
 192  
 193  * New translation updates : Greek, Italian and Turkish
 194  
 195  * Bug Fixes ; For more details, see the changelog on our documentation wiki :
 196    http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.7.x
 197  
 198  
 199  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.3 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.2
 200  -----------------------------------------------------
 201  
 202  * New translation updates : Spanish Latin
 203  
 204  * Bug Fixes ; For more details, see the changelog on our documentation wiki :
 205    http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.7.x
 206  
 207  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.2 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.1
 208  -----------------------------------------------------
 209  
 210  * New translation updates : Arabic, Polish , Bulgarian, Greek, Persian,
 211                              Spanish Latin, Romanian, Traditional Chinese
 212  
 213  * Security and bug Fixes ; For more details, see the changelog on our documentation wiki :
 214    http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.7.x
 215  
 216  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7.1 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.7.0
 217  -----------------------------------------------------
 218  
 219  * New translation updates : Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, French, Galician,
 220                              Indonesian, Persian, Polish and Spanish
 221  * Security and bug Fixes ; For more details, see the changelog on our documentation wiki :
 222    http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.7.x
 223  
 224  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.7 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.6
 225  -------------------------------------------------
 226  
 227    See http://www.claroline.net/newfeatures17.html
 228  
 229  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.6 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.5
 230  -------------------------------------------------
 231  
 232  * ASSIGNMENTS. New assignment tool dealing with :
 233  
 234      - Planned work sessions.
 235      - Automatically close or open assignments uploads.
 236      - Time planning. (start date and end date)
 237      - Give a personalized (or automatic) feedback to any work session submission.
 238      - Work content can be text, file or text and file.
 239  
 240  * DOCUMENTS AND LINKS. Two new features:
 241  
 242      - new image gallery
 243      - Internal search functionality
 244  
 245  * EXERCISES. important improvements.
 246  
 247      - time planning. (start date, end date and duration)
 248      - optional attempts limit for each user.
 249      - multimedia files. (pictures,documents, flash animations, videos, sounds, ... )
 250      - flash mp3 player.
 251  
 252  * CLASSES. This totally new tool allows platform administrator to
 253    manage more easily users by grouping them in classes and subclasses on
 254    your virtual campus. Then classes can be and enrolled to specific
 255    courses.
 256  
 257  * USERS. Massive import with CSV files or classes.
 258  
 259  * CONFIGURATION FILES EDITOR. New configuration files editor allowing
 260    easy customization of the campus and of the tool parameters.
 261  
 262      - Define which values are required for the creation of new courses.
 263      - Set the disk space limit of the documents and links tool.
 264      - Select which values are required in user profiles
 265      - Choose the number of posts displayed per forum page
 266      - ...
 267  
 268  * TRACKING & STATISTICS.
 269  
 270      - Improvements on exercises and forum tracking.
 271      - Option to erase all statistics of a course.
 272  
 273  * TRANSLATION.  New translation files simplify the process to add or
 274    update language interface of the Claroline system. See documentation
 275    on http://clarolinet.net: How to translate 1.6 ?
 276  
 277  * LAYOUT PERSONALIZATION. Claroline code has been adapted to a more
 278    intensive use of a CSS stylesheet. This makes it easier, and without
 279    any code change, for anyone to modify the appearance (color, style,
 280    logo,..) of new Claroline campus installed. See documentation: Modify
 281    styles with CSS.
 282  
 283  * EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM. New external authentication system
 284    provides methods to authenticate user from a significant number of
 285    systems (LDAP servers, 14 databases from Oracle to ODBC, POP3 servers,
 286    IMAP servers, vpopmail accounts, RADIUS, SAMBA password files SOAP,
 287    and various CMS or LMS applications). This feature improves the
 288    integration of Claroline into your existing computer network
 289    environment.
 290  
 291  * SINGLE SIGN ON (SSO) SYSTEM. Single Sign On (SSO) system enabling
 292    users, once logged into Claroline, to connect to all other web sites
 293    session without the need of physically enter repetitive usernames and
 294    passwords. This feature allows to smoothly associate Claroline into
 295    your institution Portals.
 296  
 297  
 298  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.5 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.4
 299  -------------------------------------------------
 300  
 301  * LEARNING PATH. A completely new tool has been created allowing course manager
 302  to easily organize course resources for student in a framed learning path.
 303  
 304  * WYSIWYG EDITOR. User are now able to create and edit their content on the fly
 305  and store it into documents, posts, announcements, messages, and quizzes.
 306  
 307  * SCORM & IMS. Claroline is now compatible with IMS 1.1.2, SCORM 1.2 (minimal
 308  conformance level + optionnal Data Model Element) and SCORM 2004 (basic
 309  conformance). It means the platform is now able to import Content Package
 310  allowing exchange between various Learning Management Systems.
 311  
 312  * LDAP AND EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION. Claroline is now able to connect itself
 313  simultaneously to several external authentication systems, allowing to retrieve
 314  user settings from the outside. An LDAP example based on this technique is
 315  provided.
 316  
 317  * LANGUAGES. New languages added. Claroline is now translated in 28 languages
 318  (Arabic, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English,
 319  French, Galician, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Polish,
 320  Portugese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkce, Vietnamese).
 321  
 322  * SECURITY IMPROVEMENT. In Claroline 1.4, the init kernel was checking
 323  permission until the course level. The new claroline is more fine grained
 324  checking permission one step further : at tool level.
 325  
 326  * COURSE HOME PAGE. New layout, leaving most of the display area to course
 327  manager, allowing him to fill it with his own content.
 328  
 329  * COURSE BANNER. Navigation improvement allowing user to jump in a single click
 330  from one tool to another.
 331  
 332  * AGENDA. Additional cross course calendar displaying synthetic monthly view of
 333  all the events related to a user.
 334  
 335  * DOCUMENT. You can now create and edit HTML document on line. You can also
 336  create hyperlinks among documents. It means the Claroline 'Links' tool is
 337  deprecated. This feature is no taken in charge more completely by the 'document'
 338  tool renamed 'document and links' for the occasion.
 339  
 340  * TRACKING AND STATISTICS. Performance and display optimization.
 341  
 342  * FORUMS. Email notification of new post in a thread - Forum category categories
 343  are now movable.
 344  
 345  * ANNOUNCEMENT. Possibility to send Messages to selected course members and
 346  groups.
 347  
 348  * USER HOME PAGE. Once logged users are now directly informs about new course
 349  events since last login.
 350  
 351  * GROUP. Chat room for each group has been added.
 352  
 353  * COURSE CATEGORIES. The course categories are not limited anymore to a single
 354  level. You can now create subcategory tree as deep as you want to arrange courses.
 355  
 356  * PLATFORM ADMINISTRATION. Completely revamped user interface of the
 357  administration section. The phpMyadmin database manager isn't needed anymore.
 358  All the administration is handled through this interface.
 359  
 360  * COURSE ENROLLMENT. After long usability tests, the course enrollment device
 361  has been completely changed to make it easier.
 362  
 363  
 364  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.4 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.3
 365  -------------------------------------------------
 366  
 367  The main Claroline improvements are hidden behind the screen. We have totally
 368  recoded the Claroline Kernel to be more stable and more modular.
 369  
 370  * SINGLE DB. Claroline is able now to work on a single DB.   The single DB
 371  feature is an option to choose at install step.
 372  
 373  * LANGUAGE. New languages added. Claroline is now in 20 languages :   Arab,
 374  Catalan, Crotian, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French,   German, Galician,
 375  Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish,   Portugese, Spanish , Swedish,
 376  Thaï, Turkish.
 377  
 378  * LAYOUT. New 'liquid layout' spreading on all the window.   Introduction of CSS
 379  system.
 380  
 381  * MAIN PAGE. New courses list display in a 'dynamic tree' system.   It allows
 382  the main page to display faster, especially on servers with important number
 383  of course.
 384  
 385  * QUIZZ. Totally new quizz tool with 4 different question forms   (multiple
 386  choices / mutiple answers / fill inn / matching). The quizz tool  also allows :
 387  image attachment to questions, questions retrieval from another quizz, random
 388  question list generation.
 389  
 390  * DOCUMENT. It automatically detects IMG tag inside HTML file offering  to
 391  upload the corresponding image.
 392  
 393  * WEB CHAT. simple chat with archive function,
 394  
 395  * FORUMS. Better protection for private forums
 396  
 397  * COURSE ENROLLEMENT. Much simplified enrollment interface.
 398  
 399  * LOST PASSWORD. Allowing user recover to recover his/her personnal   password
 400  
 401  * ASSIGNMENT. New features allowing Course manager to remove,   edit, or hide
 402  assignements send by course students.
 403  
 404  * USER. New interface and new features allowing each course manager   to insert
 405  additional information headings inside its own course.   Each course attendee
 406  can then fill these headings to provide the   information.
 407  
 408  * ADMIN SECTION. Restore sytem to insert previously backed up courses.  Most
 409  admin tools have been consedirably simplified. Bulk user subribe,  possibility
 410  to deactivate self registration.
 411  
 412  * IMPORT / EXPORT : backup and restore for Claroline to Claroline   import, to
 413  prepare IMS and WebCT to Claroline import,
 414  
 415  * TRACKING. The ezBoo statistics tool has been removed.  and a complete tracking
 416  system is implemented recording   every user's action on the platform.
 417  
 418  
 419  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.3 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.2
 420  -------------------------------------------------
 421  
 422  * LANGUAGE. New languages added. Claroline is now in 12 languages : Chinese,
 423  English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish,   Portugese,
 424  Spanish, Swedish and Thaï.
 425  
 426  * GROUPS. A new comprehensive group tool has been added. It allows to easily
 427  organise student groups, attribute them a tutor and create private forum and
 428  document area for each of them.
 429  
 430  * ANNOUNCEMENTS. New annoucements can be sent by mail to students registered
 431  to the course.
 432  
 433  * DOCUMENTS. You can now upload several files in one go by compressing them in
 434  a single zip file. Once uploaded the file is automatically uncompressed and
 435  the files structure accurately reproduced.
 436  
 437  * COURSE INFO SECTION. An archive function has been added. It allows teacher
 438  to keep an archive copy of its course (useful when one needs   to modify the
 439  course for a new session but wants to keep tracks of the   previous session).
 440  
 441  * WEB INSTALL. New functions allowing to upgrade from 1.2 and 1.1 versions to
 442  1.3 has been added.
 443  
 444  * ADMIN SECTION. The new PHPMyAdmin 2.3 has been included and admin tools
 445  completely rewritten.
 446  
 447  
 448  NEW FEATURES IN CLAROLINE 1.2 SINCE CLAROLINE 1.1
 449  -------------------------------------------------
 450  
 451  * Claroline can be installed in a server sub-directory.
 452  
 453  * UCL local settings have been removed (Faculties, IPM link, Course Program...).
 454  
 455  * LANGUAGES. Claroline is now in 7 languages: English, Finnish, French, German,
 456  Italian, Japanese, Spanish. New language adding has been automated. You just
 457  need to add new language directory into claroline/lang dir. It is then available
 458  at Course creation as long as 'Modify Course Info' tool.
 459  
 460  * WEB INSTALL. Open browser and go to (...)claroline/install to install new
 461  package.   WATCH OUT! The web install does not manage claroline1.1.1 upgrade to
 462  1.2.0 yet.
 463  
 464  * TEXT EDITING. In almost all tools, URLs and emails are converted into links
 465  and new   lines into HTML new lines (tags <br>).
 466  
 467  * AGENDA. New layout, clearer view (Month separation and mention of current
 468  day). Language date formatting automated.
 469  
 470  * ANNOUNCEMENTS. Can be moved up and down the list through blue arrow.
 471  
 472  * DOCUMENTS. '.php' files uploads are renamed '.phps ' (increase security).
 473  Renaming a directory doesn't remove its content comments anymore. Directories
 474  size calculation works with PHP 4.1+ (no problem with previous versions).
 475  
 476  * STATS. Install bug fixed (no manual stats settings editing required). Users
 477  registered only once per session per course.
 478  
 479  * ADMINISTRATION. Basic administration tool at claroline/admin/ protected   by
 480  '.htaccess' (protection only functional if Apache server). Contains   phpSysInfo
 481  (only functional in Linux servers) and phpMyAdmin 2.2.6.
 482  
 483  * TODO. Improved from Admin point of view. You can clasify todos, attribute
 484  them to a developper, check state of progress and inform users that their todo
 485  is taken into account, at what stage and by who.
 486  
 487  
 488  =========================================================================
 489                  Europe, Belgium, Brussels - October 3 2007
 490  ================================== END ===================================