Course Preview
The editor tool "Course preview" enables you to see course settings and content from the course participant's point of view. By clicking on "Course preview" you will first get to the configuration menu to simulate your course at a certain point in time, as member of a distinct group, or with other attributes used in your course.
In contrast to the view of the course content you will see all modifications or course elements not yet published in the course preview. Features depending on an interaction between participant and system will not be available in the course preview, e.g. enrolling in groups, starting a test, self-test or questionnaire, and performing tasks in the course element "Task."
Publishing
As long as you have not published your course and granted access, your course participants will not be able to find your course in the search mask or the course list. Course modifications will not be effective during your course; you have to publish it once more. This means that you can prepare new course content in the course editor. Your participants will only see new features after publishing them. All settings and modifications will be effective after using the tool "Publish" in the course editor.
First you have to select all those course elements you have modified and want to publish. Your choice will be reduced to course elements that are available for publishing.
Then you determine who should have access to your OpenOLAT course. See section "Modify settings" to learn more about those four options at your disposal. Now you can complete your publishing process. Just click on "Finish."
At this stage you will be informed on course elements that may not have been configured correctly and could cause problems when starting your course.
At last you will get a summary of your published modifications as well as a message containing the number of course participants working on your course at that very moment.
In case you publish a course while others are working on it all non-saved data (such as entries in forums or Wikis) will be lost.
The course can be published automatically upon closing the editor. You can only publish either all or nothing, with none of the modifications from step two of the wizard available.
