Content area
Full text
Abstract:
A learning management system is an application for the administration, tracking, and reporting of learner progress, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and distribution of educational content. One of the main objectives of this paper is to present a correct approach in developing software module for an open-source learning management system, especially for ILIAS.
Keywords: elearning; learning management system; ILIAS.
ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows you to easily manage learning resources and learners. The last ILIAS version, 4.4.2 release, has been published on 26th March 2014. It supports SCORM1 content creation and tools for communication (chat), collaboration(wiki), evaluation and assessment(test and exercise). The software is published under the GNU General Public License and can be run on any server that supports PHP 5 and MySQL. ILIAS offers a lot of features to design and provide courses in different digital format, create educational learning content, offer exercises and assessments, run surveys and support communication and cooperation among learners. It contains various modules like: Administration, Courses, Groups, Forums, Chat, Wiki, Mail, System Notification, Learning and Content Management, Glossaries, HTML, ILIAS and SCORM Learning Modules, Media, Exercise, Survey, Questions Pools, Test.
According to the installation guide on ilias.de website, ILIAS should be installable on every server that runs a common PHP 5 and Apache. Supported database systems are MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and PostgreSQL - experimental. The ILIAS installation guide recommends Apache 2.2.x or higher.
Our software modules developed for ILIAS like a repository plugin will benefit by support for GD included in PHP and Imagemagick which is preinstalled in ILIAS.
The support for plugin architecture has been introduced since with ILIAS 3. ILIAS modules...