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Welcome to the chamilo-lms wiki!

Chamilo LMS is, as of 2018, one of the 3 top Open Source LMS worldwide and one of the top 8 LMS in use for Higher Education worldwide, as reported by ListEdTech.

This is the technical wiki of Chamilo, meaning if you're looking for more user-side documentation, you should either be looking at Chamilo's website or its online documentation (see below).

Essentials

• Chamilo Teacher, Admin and Developers guides
• Chamilo's Installation guide for versions 1.11.*
• How to report issues also in French or in Spanish
• Chamilo Development Principles
• Chamilo Developer's Starting Guide for v1.*
• Secure Development Policy
• Security Issues

Chamilo 1.*

• Coding conventions
• Database structure
• Extra fields dictionary v1
• Import from Moodle
• Password Management
• Quiz features dictionary v1
• Reports dictionary
• Security issues and reporting procedure
• Session expiry time
• Web services

Chamilo 2.*

• Authentication methods
• Clean-up choices for v1 to v2
• Converting legacy SQL
• Code quality checkers
• Code annotation types
• Coding conventions v2
• Configurations
• Graphical design guide
• Internationalization
• Technical design decisions
• Message queue, emails, etc
• Password Management 2
• Permissions

Procedures

• c_item_property to nodes conversion
• Adding page types (CMS feature)

Extra

• Supported versions
• Release procedure
• Release cycle
• Translations management
• Community support strategy
• Tools and sessions
• Visual design
• (near) Real Time Communications
• Common Cartridge support

Policies

• Privacy Policy of the Chamilo software
• Cookie Policy of the Chamilo software

The main wiki for the Chamilo LMS project is now here. Our wiki was previously kept on a separate tracking system: https://support.chamilo.org/projects/chamilo-18/wiki. Use it for legacy references, like tasks references in this form "CT#1234"