What exactly is ILIAS?
What exactly is ILIAS?
ILIAS - The open source learning platform
ILIAS is a powerful and flexible software for web-based learning and work. Far beyond the possibilities of a traditional learning management system (LMS), ILIAS can be used in a wide variety of contexts as a learning, knowledge and cooperation platform.
Thanks to its licensing as open source software and its lively development, support and user community, ILIAS can be precisely adapted to the needs of your institution or company. Accordingly, ILIAS installations look diverse and different in practice - exactly as they are needed in each individual case.
A comparison of different learning platforms quickly becomes a comparison of apples and oranges. For example, the character of an open source system is fundamentally different from commercial offerings - but there are also crucial differences in the open source sector.
Learning in ILIAS does not always mean "learning in courses". Instead, you decide on your own didactic approach: from formal to informal, from strictly guided to completely open. Thanks to the combination of the most diverse tools, you have almost unlimited possibilities.
In addition to various options for making your content available, you can also decide whether you only distinguish between learners, teachers and administrative staff - or whether you map your entire organisational structure precisely in ILIAS. Supervisors can then view the learning progress of their own employees, but not that of other departments.
ILIAS is committed to digital sovereignty. This aims to reduce political and economic dependencies in the software sector. It allows people to move independently, self-determined and securely in the digital world.
With ILIAS, you retain complete control over your data - and decisive co-determination options in the further development of the software: The GPL licence not only ensures users access to the programme code and the possibility of further development. It also guarantees the sustainability of development and independence from the corporate policies of commercial software producers.
ILIAS is versatile
ILIAS is yours
ILIAS adapts
ILIAS is social
ILIAS is a large community
ILIAS does not sell anything - not even your data!
ILIAS is standards-compliant and barrier-free
ILIAS is secure
ILIAS meets your requirements
By the way, you can read all about it in our brochure.
The ILIAS Association coordinates software development and process design, and provides the necessary infrastructure for development and quality assurance. It also organises the community events, such as the annual ILIAS conference, the development conferences and the user meetings. The association also finances numerous development projects to improve ILIAS, meet new technological requirements and make ILIAS more user-friendly.
You can also read everything about ILIAS in our current brochure (german only).
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And discover ILIAS live and up close - that's also possible: on our demo.
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