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Overview

Chamilo

4.7

(50)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Chamilo

Chamilo is a cloud-based learning management solution that enables businesses of all sizes to develop virtual campuses for semi-online and online training. Created as an open-source platform with GPLv3/GNU license, Chamilo is used primarily by SMBs, large enterprises, public administrations and freelancers.

Chamilo’s key features include certificate generation, SCORM support, courses catalog, configurations, compliance training, synchronous virtual classroom, blended learning and user authentication. The solution allows users to install web hosting solutions, create web content, manage learning methodologies, leverage auditive, visual and practical e-learning tools and handle staff selection.

Additionally, Chamilo extends services such as document management to manage training cycles and SOAP web services for remote management. With cloud compatibility, Chamilo can be accessed from Android or iOS applications and support is extended via email and documentation.

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Chamilo Pricing and Plans

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Free Version

Basic

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Chamilo Features

Popular features found in Learning Management System
Assessment Management
Asynchronous Learning
Blended Learning
Built-in Course Authoring
Certification & Licensing
Gamification
Learner Portal
Learning Paths/Tracks
Mobile Learning
SCORM Compliance
Synchronous Learning
Training Management
More features of Chamilo
Academic/Education
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Assignment Management
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Corporate/Business
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Tracking
Customizable Branding
Data Import/Export
Document Management
eCommerce Management
For Schools
Learning Management
Self-paced Learning
Social Learning
Surveys & Feedback
Tests/Assessments
Third-Party Integrations
Video Conferencing

Chamilo Integrations

WordPress

Drupal

Meta for Business

PrestaShop

Chamilo User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

74%

20%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.5

Maria G.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Best open source LMS

I have used it to complement face-to-face training and it is excellent, I recommend everyone to give it a try

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's open source so is free. It's easy to use and its interface is very intuitive. It supports SCORM. The support community is very big and helpful.

Cons:

It is complicated to install and configure, and takes a lot of memory, but once you start using it it's worth the effort

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Chamilo is good and free

Chamilo is a breeze, easier to set up and use than most FOSS and proprietary systems.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Free AND easy to use! Not common for a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

Cons:

Not enough compatibility with third-party systems. (Mostly falls on third party's responsibility)

Reasons for choosing Chamilo

Cost. Admittedly a larger project might require a different evaluation rubric.

Reasons for switching to Chamilo

Cost, technical overhead, ease of use - training expenses

Vendor Response

Thanks for your review.

Replied March 2021

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

A very clean and easy to use educative platform (compared to others...)

We set up our own installation of Chamilo and set up a virtual classroom for thousands of users. The experience was successful. We also had to fix some bugs that came with the platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Having used different platforms in the past, I can say Chamilo is very simple to use and understand by the end user.

Cons:

At the team, we are not 100% happy with the architecture behind Chamilo. It's not easy to make modifications since the html code is distributed in hard to follow chunks all over the place. The fact that it's using an unsafe language like PHP doesn't make it easier.

María José M.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Friendly and reliable e-learning platform

We use chamilo to offer our researchers and teachers a place to create their learning courses, collaborative areas and support materials for very different uses. Right now we have over 30000 users enrolled.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best thing of Chamilo is its usability. The great majority of our users require little or no support in setting their online courses and start using them. Both teachers and students. It has all the basic options you could expect from a flexible e-learning platform, regarding communication tools, authoring, testing, statistics...of course there are other platforms with far more options in each of these tools, but in my experience most users don't use them anyway.

Cons:

It would be desirable to count on more plugins to integrate external tools.

Reasons for choosing Chamilo

The three of them were born from original Claroline and we loved its philosophy, but relied in the team that is running Chamilo, which, besides, has local support in our country and region.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your feedback Maria Jose

Replied March 2021

Jennifer F.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

It is a very useful platform for learning and handling.

App to be used more if you want to use it as a means of learning and more information to use in updates for seniors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Super easy to use, it allows a quick learning in addition to the fact that the people who use it, are older, it allows it to be easier to handle.

Cons:

With the updates, older people have had to be trained in its use, although afterward they no longer have problems.

Vendor Response

Thanks Jennifer for your comments. We try to include everybody in opur design process when preparing updates. The old ones are always also on our roadmap so we tend not to do massive cnages in our interface to slowly move to new functions withou causing a massive breakdown.

Replied April 2022

Benjamin R.

Verified reviewer

Internet

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Chamilo work fine

Good alternative to systems like moodle, simpler to admin and easy to learn

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Free - Easy to learn - Easy to understand by students - Intuitive administration

Cons:

- There are functions that do not work very well - I have not been able to get the email notifications to work

Reasons for choosing Chamilo

I thing that is better that others

Reasons for switching to Chamilo

To try other system than moodle

Vendor Response

Thank you Benjamin. Regarding e-mail notifications, do not hesitate to ask for help in our public forum or reach a provider to solve. IT is probably related to your mail provider.

Replied March 2021

Akhilesh K.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

A true blue alternative for Moodle that is just so underrated ... Deserves better recognition

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Well , I liked almost everything about Chamilo . 1) Open source and so completely free 2) Has an in built authoring tool that is so comprehensive that you will need to seriously plan your content before you start using its authoring tool . 3) Supports SCORM content 4) The look is minimal and yet with enough customisations to give a very elegant polished finish . Chailo is very easy to use and you will almost require no customisations . It works beautifully out of the box.

Cons:

Although it supports SCORM content , some of the SCORM files I tried on Chamilo didn't work . That was the reason I had to move away . However , its internal authoring tool developed content functioned very smoothly.

Jurgen G.

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2016

User friendly open source project

Chamilo is really easy to use as a student. As a teacher it is intuitive but very broad. You can create simple basic courses (text courses with multiple choice quizzes) or really advanced courses (conditional questions, wiki, assignments, group collaboration, forums, ...) It offers a huge set of features to organize students in classes, work with sessions (date based set of courses) or single courses. It fully pulls the card of open source and is thus invested in reaching out to open source solutions like Big Blue Button or OpenMeetings for webinar features. Support could be better - while you have a very active (Spanish but also English) community, response from the developers is limited and happens if you're lucky. If you pay for support (which is cheaper than the paid providers), you get premium service though. I guess it's not really fair to expect premium service on a free product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's open source - you can tweak the code if you are inclined to Its very easy user interface Its very friendly community The social features in the LMS

Cons:

Cluttered code - it's a fork of a fork. They are working on this though. Huge (both in number of files as in size of download) Lack of English certification/training

Verified

Reviewer

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

We used Chamillo as a learning management system for our client

Very short set up time for a quick e-learning project.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Perhaps it is important to mention our case: we needed not the "best" but "good enough" system for host a post-face-to-face training e-learning module and Chamillo just hit the bill. It is free, works almost out of the box and has a nice interface.

Cons:

It's considered to be used in educational environments, so out of the box set up is typical for a school or university.

Tito C.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Amazing!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The platform is really amazing. Easy to use and accesible through mobile devices.

Cons:

Nothing. Right now everything Is working perfectly.

Vendor Response

Waw, your review sound like music for our ears :) Thanks for your super positive feedback. Hope future versions of Chamilo keep providing you such a good experience.

Replied February 2021

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