WelkomstwoordILIAS Dutch Meeting • 18 SEP 2018 • ’s-Hertogenbosch
Matthias Kunkel • ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
ILIAS community and ILIAS society
ILIAS community and ILIAS society
ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.๏ is a non-commercial organisation (vereniging)
๏ is the home of the ILIAS community
๏ is publishing the ILIAS software
๏ is offering processes and structures for software development
๏ is organising the ILIAS conference and other community events
๏ is doing marketing for ILIAS (e.g. fairs or conferences)
๏ …
ILIAS community and ILIAS society
What ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V. is NOT DOING:๏ software development
๏ consulting
๏ training
๏ services
Service Providers
ILIAS community and ILIAS society
ILIAS Community
General Meeting of Members
ILIAS open source e-Learning e.V.
Board
General Manager
Advisory Council
Technical Board
Head of Help
Special Interest Groups
National and Regional
User Groups U S E R S
Private Members
Service Providers
Institutional Members
How to join ILIAS society
๏ Every person can become private member of ILIAS society
‣ Have a word and vote in the general meeting of members
‣ Show that you want to support ILIAS
‣ Membership fee: 60€ / year
๏ Every institution using ILIAS can become institutional member
‣ Have a word and vote in the general meeting of members
‣ Have a word and vote in the Advisory Council (own budget)
‣ Right to vote for bugs (priority bug fixing)
‣ Help to guarantee the sustainability of your preferred LMS solution
‣ Membership fee: 2.700 € / year
ILIAS Service Provider
ILIAS Service Provider๏ Companies offering services for and around ILIAS ‣ Software development, hosting, consulting, training, content development, …
ILIAS Premium Partners๏ Service providers that are member in ILIAS society AND engaged in
community‣ E.g.: testing, language support, moderating forums, …
๏ ILIAS is part of the companies’ business model
User Groups
๏ National or regional meetings of ILIAS users
๏ Purposes / aims:‣ Exchanging experiences
‣ Initiating projects
‣ Coordinating actions on regional / national level
‣ Being a welcome committee for newbies
๏ Organising 2 or 3 user meetings year with changing hosts
๏ Free entry and self-organised meetings
๏ User group should have at least two coordinators
Special User Groups
๏ Focus on a special interest (usage of ILIAS or component)‣ ILIAS E-Assessment
‣ ILIAS Performance
‣ ILIAS @ School
๏ Every SIG has a chairman and vice-chairmen ‣ Organising and coordinating group events and activities
‣ Being contact for product management
๏ Giving recommendations for improvement and development of related components
A short outlook on ILIAS 5.4
Roadmap ILIAS 5.4
Feature Freeze 30 APR 2018
Coding Completed 29 OCT 2018
Beta1 Release and Start of Testing 5.4 31 OCT 2018
Testing Completed 31 JAN 2019
End of Bug Fixing 08 MAR 2019
Stable Version 5.4.0 13 MAR 2019
End of Maintenance apx. SEP 2021
Tile Design
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Tile Design
๏ Aim : Attractive presentation of object lists
๏ Presentation of objects in tiles
๏ Own background per object
๏ Top board with important information
๏ Presentation ( list | tile ) can be chosen per container
Content Page
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Content Page
๏ Aim : Simple and nice presentation of Information for course or learning scenario – without the need to use a folder or category
๏ New object „Content Page“
๏ Creation by using ILIAS page editor
๏ Supports learning progress (page read)
๏ Optional custom icon
๏ No container functionality
Learning History
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Learning History
๏ Aim : Quick overview on personal achievements on a timeline
๏ Presentation of events on a timeline
๏ Information about acquired …
‣ Competencies
‣ Learning goals
‣ Badges
‣ Certificates
‣ Learning progress status ‚completed‘
๏ Link to objects
Learning Sequence
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Learning Sequence
๏ Aim : User-friendly guidance through a set of learning objects
๏ Container for objects (e.g. test, learning module, content page, …)
๏ Sequential presentation of objects → learning path
๏ Easy definition of preconditions
๏ Can be used inside or outside of courses
๏ Following ILIAS version will support presentation of learning sequence in kiosk mode (no top bar and main menu)
News Timeline
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News Timeline
๏ Aim : Visualisation of activities in course / group and offers for interaction
๏ Extension of existing time line
‣ Comments to news entries
‣ Pictures and videos in news entries
‣ Emoticons for liking news entries
‣ Notification about interactions
Outlook to ILIAS 6.0
Page Layout Revision for ILIAS 6
๏ Aim : Development of an easy and intuitive user interface that works both on desktop and mobile
๏ Sound analysis of current situation, problems and possible solutions
๏ Understanding ILIAS as an application and not as a website
๏ Revision of navigation in ILIAS
๏ Definition of rules for consistent development
๏ Realisation with ILIAS 6 (2020)
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Thanks for your attention!