# About IILearn

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IILearn is an elearning and course management web application,
and is free software (GNU GPL). It's translated into 30 languages,
SCORM compliant, and light and flexible.

IILearn supports many different kinds of learning and collaboration activities.
Teachers/trainers can create, manage and publish their courses through the web.
Students/trainees can follow courses, read content or participate actively
through groups, forums, chat.

Technically, IILearn is a web application written in PHP that stores data in a
MySQL database. Users access it using a web browser.

If you would like to know more or help develop this software, please visit
our homepage at http://www.iilearn.com

#
SCORM

IILearn imports Scorm 1.2 compliant learning contents.
For more information on Scorm normalisation, see http://www.adlnet.org

# Licence

IILearn is distributed under the GNU General Public license (GPL).
Read the GNU General Public license (GPL) .

# Portability

IILearn is an AMP software. This means it should work on any platform running Apache
+ MySQL + PHP. It is then supposed to work on the following Operating Systems :

- Linux
- Windows (98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP)
- Unix
- Mac OS X

It has been tested on

- Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Debian
- Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Mac OS X 10.3

Email functions remain silent on systems where there is no mail sending software
(Sendmail, Postfix, Hamster...), which is the case by default on a Windows machine.

# Interoperability

IILearn imports Scorm compliant learning contents. It imports then "On the shelve"
contents from many companies : NETg, Skillsoft, Explio, Microsoft, Macromedia, etc.

Admin interface imports users through CSV and XML. You can create a CSV file from
a list of users in MS Excel. OpenOffice can export to both CSV and XML formats.
Many database management systems, like Oracle, SAP, Access, SQL-Server, LDAP ...
export to CSV and/or XML.

IILearn includes a LDAP module that allows admin to deactivate MySQL authentication
and replace it by connection to a LDAP directory.

Client side, IILearn runs on any browser : Firefox, MS Internet Explorer (5.0+), Netscape (4.7+),
Mozilla (1.2+), Safari, Opera, ...

You can find more information on the services on http://www.iilearn.com/services.php

Contact address:
IILearn
Mail: poopsoft@163.com