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  10. <h1>About Dokeos </h1>
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  15. <p>Dokeos is an elearning and course management web application,<br />
  16. and is free software (GNU GPL). It's translated into 30 languages,<br />
  17. SCORM compliant, and light and flexible.</p>
  18. <p>Dokeos supports many different kinds of learning and collaboration activities.<br />
  19. Teachers/trainers can create, manage and publish their courses through the web.<br />
  20. Students/trainees can follow courses, read content or participate actively<br />
  21. through groups, forums, chat.</p>
  22. <p>Technically, Dokeos is a web application written in PHP that stores data in a <br />
  23. MySQL database. Users access it using a web browser.</p>
  24. <p>If you would like to know more or help develop this software, please visit<br />
  25. our homepage at <a href="http://www.dokeos.com">http://www.dokeos.com</a></p>
  26. <h1>SCORM</h1>
  27. Dokeos imports Scorm 1.2 contents.<br />
  28. For more information on Scorm normalisation, see http://www.adlnet.org<br />
  29. <h1>Licence</h1>
  30. <p>Dokeos is distributed under the GNU General Public license (GPL).<br />
  31. Read the <a href="licence.html">GNU General Public license (GPL)</a> .</p>
  32. <h1>Portability</h1>
  33. <p>Dokeos is an AMP software. This means it should work on any platform running Apache<br />
  34. + MySQL + PHP. It is then supposed to work on the following Operating Systems :</p>
  35. <ul>
  36. <li> Linux</li>
  37. <li> Windows (98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, VISTA)</li>
  38. <li> Unix</li>
  39. <li> Mac OS X</li>
  40. </ul>
  41. <p>It has been tested on </p>
  42. <ul>
  43. <li> Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Debian </li>
  44. <li> Windows XP, Windows 2000</li>
  45. <li> Mac OS X 10.3</li>
  46. </ul>
  47. <p>Email functions remain silent on systems where there is no mail sending software<br />
  48. (Sendmail, Postfix, Hamster...), which is the case by default on a Windows machine.</p>
  49. <h1>Interoperability</h1>
  50. <p>Dokeos imports Scorm compliant learning contents. It imports then "On the shelve"<br />
  51. contents from many companies : NETg, Skillsoft, Explio, Microsoft, Macromedia, etc.</p>
  52. <p>Admin interface imports users through CSV and XML. You can create a CSV file from<br />
  53. a list of users in MS Excel. OpenOffice can export to both CSV and XML formats.<br />
  54. Many database management systems, like Oracle, SAP, Access, SQL-Server, LDAP ...<br />
  55. export to CSV and/or XML.</p>
  56. <p>Dokeos includes a LDAP module that allows admin to deactivate MySQL authentication<br />
  57. and replace it by connection to a LDAP directory.</p>
  58. <p>Client side, Dokeos runs on any browser : Firefox, MS Internet Explorer (5.0+), Netscape (4.7+),<br />
  59. Mozilla (1.2+), Safari, Opera, ...</p>
  60. <h1>Dokeos.com</h1>
  61. <p>Dokeos is also a commercial service company that sells services for Dokeos (hosting, installation, <br />
  62. custom developments, liveconferencing, training, ...) <br />
  63. When buying any of these services you also contribute to the Dokeos open source product<br />
  64. <br />
  65. You can find more information on the services on <a href="http://www.dokeos.com/services.php">http://www.dokeos.com/services.php</a></p>
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  67. <em>Contact address</em>: <br />
  68. Dokeos<br />
  69. Rue du Corbeau, 108<br />
  70. B-1030 Brussels - Belgium<br />
  71. Tel. +32 (2) 669 69 55<br />
  72. Mail: <a href="mailto:info@dokeos.com">info@dokeos.com</a>
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