GDF ILIAS with User Manual and
Learning Module Examples

 Gábor Dénes Főiskola

Comenius Edumedia 2006.

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2. Introduction of the ILIAS Web-based Content Development and Learning Management System

ILIAS (Integriertes Lern-, Informations- und Arbeitskooperations System = Integrated Learning-, Information and Co-Operative Work-System) is a web-based content development and distance learning system has been developed by the University of Cologne since 1997 in the VIRTUS project. This L(C)MS has been specifically developed for higher education institutions and continually improved, the latest version is 3.6).

  • ILIAS is applied widely in more than 70 higher education institution of 18 countries (see: Installations and Examples, 2006. 04. 05)

  • Comparison and testing of several L(C)MSs shows that ILIAS is competitive with the best profit-oriented L(C)MSs available on the market.

  • ILIAS is available as an open source software (downloadable from http://www.ilias.de/ios/source.html) under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Universities, educational institutions, private and public companies, and every interested person may use the system free of charge and contribute to its further development. Software environment necessary to run ILIAS could also be developed with free, open source program packages (LINUX, MySQL etc..), though the system runs on Windows NT, 200x and XP, too.

  • ILIAS Version 3 is design keeps in mind the up-to-date layer model. Its modular and object-oriented system architecture guarantees its implementation and tailoring into the IT system of any higher education institution.

  • ILIAS is compatible with the international e-learning standards (SCORM and AICC) and handles metadata by the LOM standard.

"ILIAS is a powerful web-based learning management system that allows users to create, edit and publish learning and teaching material in an integrated system with their normal web browsers. Tools for cooperative working and communication are included as well. "

"The current version of ILIAS offers the following features:

  • Personal desktop for each user with information about last visited courses, new mail or forum entries

  • Learning environment with personal annotations, test, glossary, print function, search engine and download

  • SCORM 1.2 and AICC compliance

  • Course management system

  • Communication features like mail system, forums and chat

Base functions of ILIAS

  • Group system for collaborative work and organizing users and resources

  • Integrated authoring environment (Editor) to create courses even without any HTML knowledge

  • Support of metadata for all levels of learning objects

  • Context-sensitive help system for learners and authors

  • User and system administration interface"

Dennis Gabor College first started to use ILIAS in Hungary, few other institutes and firms have been interested in it until now.

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