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Basic concepts

In OpenOlat you will find some principles, concepts and tools that are valid across the platform.

Requirements

What is needed to work with OpenOlat? More about this in this section.

Roles and rights

Not all users can do everything in OpenOlat. There are different roles, each with different rights. This ranges from administrators to the guest access, which understandably has few rights associated with it.

Account

Here you can learn more about login, sessions, timeout, etc.

Platform-wide features

Here you can learn more about features and concepts that apply throughout the platform, independent of a single course or group: navigation, search, chat, folders and more.

Technology

Here you can learn more about the tools used to develop OpenOlat. Besides, various supporting technologies are used, e.g. WebDAV or a special editor for math formulas.