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