# Chamilo LMS Reviews **Vendor:** BeezNest **Category:** [Learning Management Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/learning-management-system-lms) **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Chamilo LMS Chamilo is a leading Libre/Open Source e-learning management system (LMS) focused on ease of use, security and speed. It offers a broad spectrum of features including deep AI integration for content creation and grading, SCORM and xAPI support, complex exams configurations, certificates generation, skills management, courses catalogue and courses shopping cart. It has proven use cases with more than 700,000 registered learners and more than 5,000 simultaneous connected learners. Cloud-compatible, high-availability capability and the fastest security flaws resolution in the industry. ## Chamilo LMS Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **strong community involvement** of Chamilo LMS, ensuring continuous evolution and relevance for diverse learning needs. (1 reviews) - Users value the **continuous development** of Chamilo LMS, benefiting from regular updates driven by a strong community. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Chamilo LMS, appreciating its intuitive design and reduced training time. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility** of Chamilo LMS, which adapts to diverse learning environments and needs effectively. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility of Chamilo LMS** , as its intuitive design reduces training time and fosters community-driven improvements. (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Intuitive Experience (1 reviews) ## Chamilo LMS Reviews ### 1. Chamilo LMS: Where smplicity meets performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rudy w. | Sales manager BeezNest Group (zones francophones) spécialiste Chamilo LMS et e-learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Chamilo LMS is simple to use, and its management can be learned quickly. With Chamilo, you optimize the time spent on user training, and every minute saved translates into real cost savings. Its intuitive design allows teams to focus on delivering learning rather than struggling with the platform. What’s more, Chamilo benefits from a very large and active user community, which ensures the platform continuously evolves to meet real-world needs. As an open-source project, most of the investment goes into development and improvements rather than marketing, which means users get a robust, flexible, and up-to-date LMS that adapts to modern learning requirements. ### 2. The best and most complete LMS platform - Open Source **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Pablo P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** Don't think about it any longer. Chamilo offers everything that other LMS tools offer. It is very robust and easy to deploy, manage, and transform if you decide to do so. You quickly realize how your users or target audience learn to use it in the shortest expected time. I spent a lot of time comparing and deploying Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, and others, and Chamilo definitely met all my expectations. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Facilitate the study and self-learning of homogeneous groups. Other LMS platforms become complex to manage and understand. I am a graduate of Computer Engineering from a 100% virtual university, and the LMS platform I used sometimes was complicated for me to navigate, considering that (modestly! I am skilled with technologies), so anyone who approaches this platform will find it very easy to handle without any problem. Its illustrated environment makes the work even easier. The well-represented icon, every button, every menu. ### 3. Chamilo is an online learning platform that allows you to interact with students **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** For all those education centers that want to venture into the world of online learning, Chamilo is a 100% free option to develop their platforms. I recommend it. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The company I currently work for sells courses related to the fitness world. With the incursion of technology they decided to enter the ecosystem of online courses, so we decided to implement Chamilo to teach online classes, so that students who could not go to face-to-face classes for different reasons, could study through our website. Chamilo allows us to load lessons, assessments and at the same time interact with students through a chat. ### 4. Easy and powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** Templates are not abundant as in Moodle. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Templates are not abundant as in Moodle. ### 5. LMS for Beginners and Professionals **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick Z. | Webprogrammierer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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.). **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** 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 :-). **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most commong problems are academic, there are many requests for eLearning in that area. But there are also a lot of company who use Chamilo in workshops. Therefore we realized these workshops or gave instructions. ### 6. Awesome simple software with many possibilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander H. | Debian Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** There is nothing i dislike, but in general newer versions should be tested thoroughly :-) **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** If you think moodle could be more easier, have a look at Chamilo. More features, most modules/plugins are onboard (and therefore maintained to next versions from core developers). But it has a totally different approach. Also, you should have a look at the oogie - Powerpoint-Converter or the integration of bbb (bigbluebutton). Both are really good to use, and give you further possibilities. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We provide several portals for medical education, language skills, computer knowledge, and many more. In case of medical education, Chamilo is used to deliver new informations for nurses and doctors and the available portal is approved by Bavarian State Chamber of Physicians. ### 7. An easy and complete LMS to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremie G. | Expert en veille et sites collaboratifs, Public Policy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** Feel free to test, it worths it as it is not a complex LMS at all and yet very powerfull. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Chamilo's community is very active and responsive. It's a pleasure to always have someone who can help if needed. The platform is in constant evolution so as to meet teachers and students needs. ### 8. Easy to install, easy to use, easy to manage. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hubert B. | Ingénieur développement et support Internet et Intranet, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** You are sure to make the right choice using Chamilo, beginner LMS Teachers usersand advanced ones will take advantage of the platform. New LMS teacher users will easilly use it and will be able to improve there Chamilo experience gradually. More experimented teachers will find the usual LMS tools, and will be able to use advanced tools and functionnalities at short notice. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The developping community is really nice and skilled. It's a great advantage for us, we can developpe or improve new functionnalities for our teachers (new quizzes, new reporting chart...), and after a strong code review, these functionnalities can be added to the official platform distribution. We can share our work with over universities, or Chamilo developpers, and vice versa. ### 9. Great user experience and Human Resources Management features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ghislain F. | Consultant elearning spécialisé en stratégies open source, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** 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. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** Nothing, just hoping that xAPI will be integrated. **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** I think it's one of the best open source user experience elearning platform. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** LMS elearning consulting : my customers have their needs and projects, and I help them choose their LMS and make their projects effective. Recently, Chamilo is one of the LMS that corresponds a lot to the customers' projects. For example, for a company that wants to provide elearning contents to their employees, or for a company that wants to sell elearning contents. ### 10. Intuitive use and easy to configure and adapt to special needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas D. | Gestion de projet, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?** The best for me in chamilo is that it is easy to install and understand it's code to create new functionalities. It has a lot of configuration to adapt to many different kind of use. And if a specific extension is needed it's easy to implement. **What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?** I don't really find any thing I dislike. When ever I find something, I just indicate it an it gets corrected and on the next update everything is ready. **Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:** Just try, it's available and you will love it. **What problems is Chamilo LMS solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my case I use chamilo to help my customer having a perfect fit for there project for learning institution to industy company. So since it has most of the functionnality the work lot is much lower and the final price for my client is better, so I get more competitive. ## Chamilo LMS Discussions - [In the roadmap, for which would you natively have the deployment of the APP for mobiles?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26552-en-el-roadmap-para-cual-tendrian-nativamente-el-despligue-de-app-para-moviles) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [call logout method from another domain](https://www.g2.com/discussions/24594-call-logout-method-from-another-domain) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [A free LMS? What's the trick?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/a-free-lms-what-s-the-trick) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can you brand Chemilo with your own company logo?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-you-brand-chemilo-with-your-own-company-logo) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Chamilo LMS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/chamilo-lms/reviews/chamilo-lms-review-147285?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-12+23%3A22%3A40+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=381da480-4bfe-462e-b1eb-0cdea7724f2b&secure%5Btoken%5D=fb901852da696bc44400fa84f2062b9053f50d85db59b3a1cd6567fd8c5f1966&format=llm_user) ## Chamilo LMS Features **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Course Authoring** - Course Builder - Role-Based Templates - Assessments & Quizzes - Instructor-Led Training **Course Delivery** - Learning Paths - Communication & Notifications - Assignment Scheduling **Course Management** - Gamification - Varied User Types - Certifications - Industry Compliance **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **LMS Marketplace** - E-Commerce - Course Marketplace - Subscriptions **Interface** - White Labeling - Multilingual **Training & eLearning** - Assessments and Practice - Content Delivery and Tracking - Content Creation - Customer Training - Manager Portals - Content Storage and Management - Content Libraries **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image **Agentic AI - Corporate Learning Management Systems ** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction ## Top Chamilo LMS Alternatives - [Canvas LMS](https://www.g2.com/products/canvas-lms/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,730 reviews) - [Moodle](https://www.g2.com/products/moodle/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (431 reviews) - [Blackboard](https://www.g2.com/products/blackboard/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (1,015 reviews)