Area and modules

When you work in OpenOlat, you switch between the large working areas through the top navigation bar: courses, groups, catalog, coaching. In OpenOlat such an area is called a site and appears as a tab in that bar. (The bar is sometimes also called "header".) Personal areas, in contrast, are accessed through the "Personal Tools".

Which tabs you see is decided by the system administration together with your role. Every OpenOlat instance therefore composes and orders its header differently. The following image shows what is possible: an instance with almost all available areas. Most instances offer fewer.

What decides about a tab

You are looking for an area and cannot find it, while a colleague sees it. Four conditions decide about this. Going through them one by one leads to the cause and tells you whom to ask.

1. The module is activated. Without an active module the area does not appear, even if the site is activated. Administrators switch on the catalog in the Module Catalog, for example.
2. The site is activated and sorted in. The system administration keeps all sites in one list. The "Enabled" checkbox releases an entry, the "Up" and "Down" arrows set the order.
3. The role has access. The "Access" column of that same list determines which roles see the tab, for example "Registered users without guests/external users" or "Learning resource managers and authors only". Two people with different roles therefore see different headers.
4. There is space in the bar. What no longer fits into the header is collected by OpenOlat in the "More" menu on the right. This depends on the width of the screen, not on a setting.

Some entries in the list are named differently from the tab they create: the entry "My courses" appears as the tab "Courses".

Besides the areas of the table below, four info pages and two external sites can be added as a tab. The system administration fills them with a learning resource or a URL.

How the system administration operates this list is described in the administration manual: Sites.

Where the areas are described

You know the area and are looking for the page that explains it. The table lists the areas this manual describes. It does not show which tabs are visible on a particular instance. The number refers to the marking in the image above.

No. in the image	Area	Described on
1	Portal	Portal configuration
2	Courses	Finding courses
3	Groups	Group Management
4	Catalog	Catalog 2.0
5	Authoring area	Authoring
6	Question pool	Question Bank
7	Document pool	Module Document Pool, administration manual
8	Library	Library
9	Video Collection	Video Collection
10	Projects	Projects
11	Course Planner	Course Planner
12	User management	User management, administration manual
13	Coaching	Coaching
14	Absence management	Absence management
15	Quality management	Quality Management
16	Administration	System, administration manual
	Portfolio	Creating Portfolios

The portfolio carries no number, because the instance shown does not offer it.

Further information

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