Course Management

ILIAS allows efficient creation of courses and course materials. It offers standardized tools and templates for the learning and working process including integrated navigation and administration.

Groups and Collaboration

Groups in ILIAS allow cooperative learning and working on the platform without additional tools. Learning groups, working groups or groups for certain fields of interest could be created. Groups can use all ILIAS tools like wiki, forums or file sharing. Users can create groups that are open for everyone or have specially defined access restrictions, e.g. access with a password. more

Learning Content

ILIAS offers multiple ways to deliver learning content. All types of document files can be uploaded, SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2 and AICC are supported.

ILIAS includes also an internal authoring environment to create XML-based learning modules, that can include images, flash, applets and other web media files. It is possible to create glossaries and reuse term definitions within other learning modules.

Since ILIAS 4.0, ILIAS is also offering an integrated SCORM 2004 content editor with several supported export formats. more

Communication

ILIAS supports standard ways of communication as chats, forums and mails. The personal desktop includes an awareness function, that shows users, that are currently online. ILIAS also sends information via RSS to the user and displays external RSS feeds in the system. more

Webcasting

Beside RSS support, ILIAS offers the ability to manage podcasts. To create a podcast is as easy as uploading a audio file to the web. The author decides whether items are available throuh the web, or within the LMS only.

Online Surveys

In ILIAS you can use surveys to easily collect information from a large number of users, for example to evaluate courses or other events. ILIAS surveys are easy to create and administer, even for non-experienced users. With a sufficient basis of survey questions, teachers could create their own evaluations fast and efficient.

Google Maps

A learning management system is a virtual meeting place for your teachers and learners. But in ILIAS users may also share their real locations to meet each other. ILIAS supports Google Maps for user profiles and adds maps of all members to groups and courses.

Personal Desktop

Every user in ILIAS has his or her own Personal Desktop. It collects all resources, that are needed by the learning to fulfill the daily learning tasks. The personal desktop features News, Personal Messages, Learning Resources, Personal Notes, Bookmarks, External Web Feeds and other information. The learner can re-arrange these blocks of information according to his needs. more

Test & Assessment

ILIAS offers an integrated enviroment for the creation and enforcement of tests & assessments. This can be used for the monitoring of learning progress by the users as well as the tutors and examiners. ILIAS Test & Assessment supports multiple choice, single choice, allocation questions, cloze questions (free text, select box), ordering, matching, hot spot and more question types. more

Standard Compliance

ILIAS accomplishs the e-learning-standard SCORM 1.2 and first of all open-source-LMS, it achieves the maximum conformance level LMS-RTE3. It also supports LOM metadata standard, AICC and IMS-QTI. more


ILIAS is also the first open source LMS that has been certified to be compliant to SCORM 2004 3rd edition (since version 3.9). See the list of SCORM certified products at adlnet.org.

Authentication

ILIAS supports a lot of different authentication methods: Standard Login/Password Authentication (Database), LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, Radius and SOAP based Authentication.

SOAP Interface

Today learning management systems are integrated into a larger environment of institutional administrative systems. To enable information exchange with these systems, ILIAS offers a SOAP interface, that allows to control almost everything in ILIAS with an external application.