Chamilo Description
According to our most knowledgeable users, Chamilo is among the top 3 Open Source Learning Management Systems. It is also one of the easiest to use.
Chamilo is easy to install and anyone can create courses, upload content, subscribe users, and start teaching.
There are dozens of options for creating documents, forums, learning paths and wikis.
We can support up to 1M users on one instance and up to 5,000 concurrent users taking exams at once.
Highly configurable, reliable, and extremely lightweight.
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Timing out issues makes product a failure Date: Feb 24 2023
Summary: Moodle gave me chaos theory when I tried to theme it. Chamilo does not allow theming except to change the header picture unless you want to jump through hoops. Both are free. I had to use Chamilo because I could at least not see chaos, plus they do have more question variations. Still, if I were to use this in a production site with real students and teachers, I'd hire a programmar to create me a better software and not use anything else. Why? Better chances of it just working for all people without the blatant discrimination with that timing out issue! Plus, you'll be able to have student themes such that those who need bright yellow background with black text can have it. Those who need dark mode to feel calmer can have it. You can accommodate special needs children but only if you hire the right programmer!
Positive: Question options are Ace when they work. Reading question does not work as it spins and doesn't load or save. I do like that I can create several questions under multiple answers, by using the answer space on the left side only, to put in questions that are numbered, with the answer choices going below each question. I also add 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d to each answer as well, just to be sure it's not confusing for the student. This set up I use when the questions are for a reading comprehension problem. I put the story to read in the "enhance question" part instead of using their buggy Reading comprehension.
Negative: Timing out issue. Students and teachers both time out in using the product. You will time out creating questions and then lose all data on that specific question and have to start over. People who have a permission slip to take longer on that test can not use Chamilo period! Teachers can not use Chamilo to create more complicated tests. Anything requiring thinking, in order to create the test can not be done on Chamilo. Chamilo was designed to prevent all cheating and insist that even the admin is a cheater!
Read More...Chamilo Company ResponseDate: Mar 27 2023
Hi Kytriya, Thanks for sharing your thoughts and issues. Sorry to hear you are having issues. We certainly can do better in terms of technical documentation and are working on it. Don't hesitate to ask for help on our forum at https://forum.chamilo.org. Chamilo 1.11.18 and above offer an option to automatically refresh the connection to avoid timing out during tests, but even without this feature, the timing out issue is initially a configuration option (so you are able to set a custom time out if you need). Theming is possible (the easy way) by downloading an existing theme, changing it offline and uploading it again. Chamilo took an estimated total contribution time of 538 person-years (see https://www.openhub.net/p/chamilo/estimated_cost), so while hiring your own developers to build a purpose-specific testing application might be an appealing solution for you, basing it on an existing Open Source system would seem like a wiser choice in many instances.