Chamilo LMS Reviews & Product Details

What I appreciate most about Chamilo LMS is its ease of use.

The platform is intuitive and quick to adopt, which significantly reduces training time for both administrators and learners. In addition, Chamilo benefits from the contribution of a very large user community. This strong community involvement ensures that the platform continuously evolves and adapts to real-world use cases, making it a flexible and relevant LMS for a wide range of learning environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One aspect I find noteworthy is that Chamilo often isn’t recognized at its true value. As an open-source project, the primary investment goes into its continuous development and evolution rather than marketing. This focus ensures a robust, flexible, and up-to-date platform, even if it means less visibility compared to commercial alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its ease, its deployment, multilingual, super complete. I have deployed it for a group of people who had never had any contact with technology (some of them had never used a laptop or PC) and the entire work experience on this platform was facilitated for them.

-I highly emphasize the adaptability it has on mobile devices.

-The generation and construction of certificates seems to me to be a winning item.

-The different templates it handles make it very interesting for managing different environments and groups (children, adolescents, women, men, groups, etc.)

-The session management has allowed the creation of unattended courses (MOOCs) where the new user registers and begins their virtual experience without being managed or guided by a real teacher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Your entire unzipped project has a lot of files. Some hosting platforms do not allow unzipping a ZIP or a TAR, which makes it very time-consuming to upload the entire unzipped project via FTP, for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chamilo is an online learning platform with an easy to use and intuitive interface, so it is not necessary to take a training. I like this software for several reasons:

- It is an open source software, so you can customize it as you want.

- It is developed in PHP, which is one of the languages I use most in my work.

- Allows you to grant permissions for administrators, teachers, students, session manager and student supervisors, so that it is easier to manage the roles in the platform.

- It has very useful content features for online learning such as lessons, links, exercises, assistance and assessments.

- It allows to carry out backup copies of the courses.

- It has support for different languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When the software is first installed it is included with a wide variety of basic configurations that in my opinion should be selected in the installation, to avoid the hassle of having to enter the different panels to change them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chamilo is more versatile than other LMS, because use any educational paradigm to create your courses.

You can run Chamilo on servers with very few memory and processor resources and handle hundreds of students at the same time.

I prefer it over Moodle or other LMS for its simplicity and easy handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Templates are not abundant as in Moodle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Is easy to install and configure

It does not take much to learn to use it

Is highly customizable

The responsive design is mobile-friendly

The memory consumption is low Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is little that I dislike... The documentation is a little bit old, maybe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To get started so easy, that would be my first convincing point. Beginners, who have no or just a litte experience with Learning Managment Software will be surprised. Creatng a lesson for example is more or less really intuitive, the most features are self-explanatory. This way you can create more complex scenarios very quickly.

For the advanced users are the most common features build in (evaluation, different types of tests, classbuilding, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. Maybe, but i'd say every software has this problem, sometimes problems with new features if known as beta. But thats up to the user to test, no force :-). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use but also possible to create complex eLearning scenarios.

You have so many options, but also without deeper knowledge there are good results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing i dislike, but in general newer versions should be tested thoroughly :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a pedagogical engineer in one of the biggest university of France, I have to set many distance-learning projects as well as blended learning ones. Chamilo is so easy to use that it only requires a short time of learning for teachers to create relevant on-line courses. Simple to use, Chamilo offers yet many tools that allow teachers to enrich their pedagogical activities. From on-line and full distance learning, to blended learning as well as flipped classroms, Chamilo can support many different pedagogical projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't honestly find something I don't like about Chamilo as it is the tool I use everyday with many different people. Easy to use and very ergonomic, Chamilo offers all of what a teacher needs to create advanced courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an computer engineer Chamilo is easy to install and has a very low RAM and CPU consumption.

As an LMS administrator, no configuration is needed to start using the platform, integration with an existing information system is easy. If needed, you can activate or modify many options to fit your teachers' needs better.

As a teacher, you need a short traning to use the platform. Tool usage is intuitive, and when you get used to them, you can start using the learning path tool to put your course into an educational sequence. In a third step, click on Advanced tool prorperties to improve your Chamilo experience. Teachers can use the platform gradually without being lost.

Students don't need training. It's really an advantage when you have several thousands of students using your platforms, with new students every years.

[warning, technical speaking here ;) ] If you are a web developper, you'll really apreciate the use of the newest develloping tehcnology in Chamilo. Chamilo uses Silex components of the PHP Symfony framework (which is, of course, open sources too)... and it is just great. This is a guarantee of security, resistance, flexibility and easier coding contribution to Chamilo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing i dislike. May be, as for many other softwares, care if you install a very new major version, test it on some of your courses before migrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user experience is very nice : I'm not wasting my time improving this, out of the box the user experience is really good.

I appreciate a lot the Human Resources Management features of Chamilo, the Skills wheel is really very useful and nice : it's easy to see who has what skills in the organisation.

Other point that I really appreciate is that the project is driven by a non-profit association, and that Chamilo is really open source, there isn't any parts that are non open source. We have here the same spirit that there is Drupal for example.

I also really appreciate the Scorm integration contents. It's very clean, while in other open source LMS it's not so visually clean, or not so ergonomic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, just hoping that xAPI will be integrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.