ILIAS functions

Personalising ILIAS

• Personal desktop: display all current courses including the fully booked ones, learning modules, forums, working groups, contacts, etc.
• Administration of the personal profile
  • Multilingual user guidance (currently 22 languages, Chinese, Russian amongst others)
  • Publication of the profile as web page 
  • Google Maps with address search function
  • Session reminder
• Bookmark administration (both as ILIAS internal and as external bookmarks)
• Calendar with project management functionalities (milestones)
• Private and public notices
• Individual settings for receiving internal mails
• Individual monitoring of learning progress

 Course management functions

• Automated registration
• Course preview from a student’s perspective
• Events and educational schedules for courses
• Time controlled and test sensitive approval of learning materials
• Presentation of learning material subject to the learning objective
• Monitoring learning progress at course level for course participants
• Management of exercises with given deadlines (remaining working time available, comments for learners, notes)
• Feedback module for courses and groups

Communication

• Who-is-online-function with invitation to chat
• vCard including export
• Chat (moderator function: protocol, blocking of participants, progress export) as well as chat viewer on your personal desktop
• Discussion forums (moderator function, file appendices, notification about new contributions, export, statistics on forums)
• Integrated mail system (file appendices, processing of mail and external addresses)
• Email to groups and course participants
• Interface to virtual classroom iLinc and Centra

Co-operation

• Group system
  • Establishing and administering groups
  • Password protected and time-based registration
  • Administration of resources
• Wiki
• Group mail and public notices
• Automatically prepared member galleries per groups and courses
• Container for co-operative processing of files (including virus protection)
• Version documentation of files
• Time schedules for groups

Test and assessment tool

• Types of tests: online exam, preparation for tests, self learning tests, random tests
• Types of questions: single/multiple choice, text gap including error tolerance, numeric question, text subset, assignment and placement tasks per drag & drop, hotspot, essay questions, Java Applet and Flash questions, file upload task
• Preparation and administration of question pools
• QTI interface for integrating externally raised questions
• Certification function, determination of working options, duration, grade (mark) schemes, test notification
• Differentiated evaluation of results (including export)
• Integrated survey tool for anonymous/public surveys

Authoring 

• Integrated authoring environment (XML based, optional JavaScript support,
  SCORM 2004-editor)
• Import interfaces (SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, AICC, HTML, Import from Open Office per elaix)
• Export (XML, HTML, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004)
• Automatic check of external hyperlinks
• Print function for learning module, notices, copy & paste of page elements
• Activation/deactivation of individual pages in the learning module, setting the time frame for access to certain pages
• Individually adjustable style sheets
• Standard layout for the entire ILIAS learning module or for individual pages of a learning module
  e.g.: full view, 2 frames view, dynamic frame view
• Glossary with pointer indicating links to learning modules
• LaTeX support for establishing formulas in learning modules, tests and forums

Functions for the system administration

• Flexible role based access system
  • Global/local roles (unlimited)
  • Roll templates for easy re-use of rolesettings
  • Automatically generated forums, group and course roles
  • Inheritance of access rights including possible stops or discontinuation and role protection
• Client capability
• Data bases: MySQL, Oracle
• Automatic registration, password generation/ mailing
• External course management via SOAP
• Authentication methods: LDAP, SOAP, Shibboleth, CAS, RADIUS
• LDAP interface: automatic user allocation as per LDAP properties
• WebDAV
• SFTP upload of learning modules
• Disk space contingent
• Flexible adaptation of the graphic design via templates/skins
• PayPal payment with integral PDF invoice
• Central definition of requirements regarding the layout of certificates
• Placeholder functionality during the IP check
• Avoidance of double log in