Documentation

Chamilo community has started to work together on the 18 th of january. We still have to work on some documentation to adapt it to the new features of the software. So please, come back to this area in the following weeks to get the first manuals, tutorials, and other stuff.
If you want to join us on creating manuals and materials to help others to use Chamilo, go to the contact page and send us a message. We will be glad to hear from you! Thanks.
 
Translate
A short manual to work with the Chamilo Translation Tool is now available! You can download it here: http://www.chamilo.org/files/translate_chamilo_org.pdf
 
Teacher manual for Chamilo 1.8.7 (French only)

http://support.chamilo.org/attachments/969/chamilo-guide-utilisation-enseignants.pdf
 
Admin manual for Chamilo 1.8.7 (French only)
http://support.chamilo.org/attachments/968/chamilo-guide-utilisation-administrateur.pdf
 
Chamilo 2 Documentation
A lot of documentation for developers is available on google docs. Join our team to get access.
Get a taste by reading this document on how Chamilo 2 connects to external repositories such as Google docs, Flickr, Picasa and other Youtube's.
 
Website edition
If you would like to translate this website in a new language or feel it lacks a bit of dynamism in your own language, please, don't hesitate to write to us and let yourself know. We will be glad to count you inside the team.
If you are going to contribute as a translator or a moderator on this website, you should know a few tricks for the job:
Always put a short URL for each content. This allows for better SEO and makes it much more ordered and clear when referencing from another website.
For example: nieeuws/chamilo-reeds-twee-maanden for Dutch, breves/chamilo-deux-mois-deja for French. The system manages translations by itself, no need to put a language prefix if you are already editing the news in the right language.
The "nieeuws" or "breves", or "news" prefix allows to order things. Not putting a prefixing slash allow us to possibly change the domain one day without losses, and the completely literal, "-" separated URL allows for better indexing.
These rules work out for all languages, of course.
 
Fact sheet
Data taken from http://support.chamilo.org/projects/chamilo-18/wiki/Chamilo_187_-_Features

Chamilo 1.8.7 or its close predecessors have been tested without major influence on the server load with:

  • 800 simultaneously connected users (in a 240 seconds timeframe)
  • 32,000 courses
  • 229,000 registered users
  • 35,000 connexions per day

Current http://campus.chamilo.org has ...

  • 19,600 registered users
  • 300 simultaneously connnected users (120 seconds timeframe)
  • 3,500 courses
  • ... and runs on ...
  • 2 x Intel Xeon Dual-Core 5130
  • 2GB RAM
  • 250GB SATA HDD
  • X7DBN Motherboard
  • 5TB / month bandwidth

The videoconference tool has been tested on a virtual machine with 300MB of RAM with 20 people connected simultaneously and has shown no defect or excessive load. It has also be tested with up to 45 users in the same institution and has proven to be a bit slow and add audio delay. This was mostly due to testing it with so many computers in the same network, making the work difficult for the streaming server in terms of address translations.
It is also estimated that the practical limits for a cuad-core processor with 8GB of RAM and a ZFS-type file system (given small interface improvements) would be:

  • 1 000 000 users registered
  • 5000 simultaneously connected users (with a time window of 60 seconds)
  • 32 000 courses
  • millions of sessions

Learning more about Chamilo
There is a considerable number of resources available on the web about Chamilo, so we'll try to be as exhaustive and organized as possible...
Software aspects
 
Pedagogical aspects
International aspects
Corporate productivity aspects