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Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/22/2019

"Chamilo is an online learning platform that allows you to interact with students"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chamilo LMS Reviews & Product Details

Chamilo is an Libre/Open Source e-learning management system (LMS) focused on ease of use and speed. It offers a broad spectrum of features including 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.

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Languages Supported

Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Basque, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)

Product Description

Chamilo is an e-learning and course management web application, and free software under the GNU/GPLv3+ license. It's translated into more 30 languages, SCORM compatible, light and flexible.

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Yannick Warnier (Chamilo LMS Open Source project founder, Learning Solutions Manager)

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Present your courses in a public or private catalogue

Test your learners before and after the course to measure its efficiency

Tracking pages let you analyse the adoption on your portal

A global calendar lets student plan for the week or month ahead

The skills wheel lets you organize skills and see which ones you've already learnt

Chamilo LMS Reviews (17)

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Juan Pablo P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/23/2020

"The best and most complete LMS platform - Open Source"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/14/2020

"Easy and powerful"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?

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

Verified User in E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/22/2016

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"It's a good Free Software LMS"

5/5

What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?

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.

What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?

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

Patrick Z.

Webprogrammierer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/29/2017

"LMS for Beginners and Professionals"

5/5

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.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 :-). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexander H.

Debian Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/3/2016

"Awesome simple software with many possibilities"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?

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

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeremie G.

Expert en veille et sites collaboratifs

Public Policy

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/21/2016

"An easy and complete LMS to use. "

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hubert B.

Ingénieur développement et support Internet et Intranet

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/16/2016

"Easy to install, easy to use, easy to manage."

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ghislain F.

Consultant elearning spécialisé en stratégies open source

E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/15/2016

"Great user experience and Human Resources Management features"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?

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

Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:

I think it's one of the best open source user experience elearning platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicolas D.

Gestion de projet

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/22/2016

"Intuitive use and easy to configure and adapt to special needs"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Chamilo LMS:

Just try, it's available and you will love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

rudy w.

Sales manager BeezNest Group (zones francophones) spécialiste Chamilo LMS et e-learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/22/2016

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Chamilo LMS, as the easiest to use and to manage"

5/5

What do you like best about Chamilo LMS?

All tools are accessible through the administration tab. Impossible to miss. Clear and synthetical titles. A search tool helps you find the right elements quickly. All sections and actions are detailes to help you in your daily tasks. No obscure navigation tree, no multi-level dropdown menu. You get access to a complete social learning network: receive and send messages, share documents, start 1×1 videochats, make some learning relationships, etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Chamilo LMS?

I dislike anything ! Chamilo LMS is very easy to use ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.