How-to guides
Each guide leads you step by step through a complete task, from the first click to the result. Choose the task that is in front of you right now.
Start here
Each card names, for one role, the guides to start with.
My first course
Ten steps from the Author role to the published course. Sophia helps along the way.
How do I create my first OpenOlat course?
After that:
Prefer to work together? For trainings and workshops for authors, contact your organisation.
Set up exams
Owners set up exams, tests and peer reviews in the course.
Assess
Coaches assess the participants of their course.
Plan in the Course Planner
Course planners plan single courses, products with several courses and certification programs.
Maintain the platform
Clean up data, adapt the terms of the interface, save storage.
Guides by role
If the guide you need is not above, find it here by role. Each card collects the tasks that this role normally does.
For authors: build courses and content
Build courses, create learning resources and provide files in the course.
- How do I create my first OpenOlat course?
- How do I use the course element Selection?
- How do I award badges in my course?
- How can I use the same files in several courses?
- Which folders can I use to provide documents?
- How do I set up document submission options?
- How do I create a blog?
- How do I create a content package?
- How do I create a form learning resource?
- How do I create a podcast?
- How do I create a wiki?
- How do I create an essay question with AI grading?
- How do I prepare the creation of personal portfolios by participants?
- How can I run a survey at the end of a course?
The terms behind it: Introduction for authors in the user manual
For authors, owners and coaches: tests and exams
Create tests, prepare and run exams, assess the results.
- How do I proceed when I create a test?
- Benefits of metadata
- How do I prepare an online exam?
- How do I prepare an exam with the Safe Exam Browser (SEB)?
- Communication during an exam
- How do I assess a test?
- How do I correct a test anonymously in OpenOlat?
- How do I perform a peer review?
- How do I exchange a test?
For coaches: run courses and assess participants
Accompany participants, assess them and make achievements visible.
For planning: Course Planner and offers
Plan single courses and products with several courses in the Course Planner, create certification programs and make the offer visible.
- How do I plan and run a course in several implementations with the Course Planner?
- How do I plan and run a product with several courses with the Course Planner?
- How can I create certification programs with the Course Planner?
- How do I present my courses in the OpenOlat catalog?
- How can I have my courses found by search engines?
- How do I integrate an OpenOlat course into Moodle?
For administrators: operate the platform
Set up, adapt and clean up the platform.
- As a system administrator, how do I set up the Safe Exam Browser (SEB) system-wide?
- How do I comply with legal consent requirements?
- What measures can I take to reduce storage space consumption?
- How do I manage lifecycles of groups, courses or user accounts?
- How can I create custom CSS for my course design?
- How do I use the language adaptation tool?
- How can I transfer files using WebDAV?
- How do I create an Excel list of all available courses?
The terms behind it: Introduction for administrators in the administration manual