ILIAS goes Web 2.0

The new ILIAS version 3.8 offers a lot of interesting and useful Web 2.0 features like podcasts, RSS support, tagging with del.icio.us or Google Maps. All courses and groups may now have an own news feed to update their members about ongoing activities in the course or group. Every user can subscribe to a personal web feed with all news of items on the personal desktop and access these news with the client’s feed reader. User may create podcasts by uploading MP3 files to ILIAS and offering also to the outside. Google Maps have been integrated in the member lists of courses and groups. If a course or group member offers his or her personal position in the personal profile, ILIAS displays the position of the member on the map. All content items in ILIAS can be tagged and added to the personal del.icio.us site. Other Web 2.0 features will follow in the next versions. On the roadmap are a XML-based ILIAS wiki and tag clouds for content in ILIAS. For more information have a look in the «ILIAS Roadmap and Release» module.

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