About this manual
This user manual helps you to make yourself familiar with OpenOlat while thoroughly explaining its functionality.
The OpenOlat manual is meant for people interested in e-learning as well as in making use of OpenOlat for various reasons. If you have not worked with OpenOlat (former OLAT) before, you will get more information on how to get started with this learning platform step by step which includes searching for predefined learning content, its adaption, as well as the handling of collaborative tools.
You may be familiar with OLAT as a user and would now like to make learning content available in OpenOlat yourself. In this case, the chapters on learning resources, course creation, course elements and course editor, test creation and course operation can support your work.
If you were already an OLAT expert, this manual will serve as a work of reference. Its table of contents is there to guide you in order to find what you are looking for as fast as possible.
Further Sources of Information
Help tools in OpenOlat
Manual link
At the top right of the main menu bar there is always access to the OpenOlat manual (this is where you are currently located) and possibly to further help pages, depending on the configuration by the system administrator. Just click on the question mark .
Info
If the link does not appear, it was hidden in the user tools in the personal settings.
Context help
While working with OpenOlat, you cannot only dispose of this manual, but also use OpenOlat's context sensitive help. This Help feature explains the options you have regarding OpenOlat's configuration--right where you are at that particular moment, by opening the relevant location in this manual. You will recognize this feature by a question mark icon. Just click on that icon to open the manual in a new window.
Help in forms
In addition to that, you will find 3 more types of assistance mainly in forms, but not restricted to, which will provide you with brief information on single form fields. When locating this icon 
to the right of a label, a mouseover will display a short information. Here, an example of the configuration of a test in the course editor:
Light grey text within a form field...
...assists you with filling out the field itself,
Light grey text underneath a field...
...provides information about what is required.
Community, course templates and demo courses
On the community server as well as the demo server, you will find demo courses.
Support
Please contact your local support team. Normally this is found on the OpenOlat login page in the help menu in the header of the page or in the imprint in the header or the footer.
Copyright
This is an extended Adaption of the "OLAT 7.1 - User Manual", used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
Since 2015 the manual is financed and maintained by frentix GmbH, the company behind the Open Source LMS OpenOlat.
In the long history of this manual, many people contributed their part. Please respect the intellectual property and the license under which this manual is published:
Some rights reserved! This document is copyright protected by the owners and companies listed below under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license. For more information check: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ch/
Responsible people (in alphabetical order):
| Name | Contribution | Sponsored by |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Glock | Content | frentix |
| Christian Franck | Content | frentix |
| Christian Meier | Content | TU Dresden |
| Florian Gnägi | Content, Migration | frentix |
| Joël Fisler | Specials | Universität Zürich, MELS |
| Kirsten Scherer Auberson | Content | frentix |
| Kristina Isacson | Content | Universität Zürich, MELS |
| Lukas Witschi | Content | frentix |
| Mandy Menzel | Content | frentix |
| Michael Enz | Migration | frentix |
| Oliver Kant | Technic | frentix |
| Renata Sevcikova | Content | Universität Zürich, MELS |
| Rico Eberle | Content | frentix |
| Sabine Hemsing | Content | VCRP |
| Sabrina Scheiwiler | Content | frentix |
| Sandra Arnold | Content | Universität Zürich, MELS |
| Sandra Hübner | Content | Hochschule Furtwangen |
| Tina Frenzel | Content | frentix |