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Course Settings

You define the settings that affect the course as a whole under:
Course > Administration > Settings

The "Settings" menu is available to owners of the course, learning resource managers and administrators, and also to persons who have been granted the "Course editor" right in the Members management.

Administration menu with the entry Settings highlighted; the course settings open with one tab per settings area, from Metadata to Options

Video introduction (German): Configuring course elements

Important

Every learning resource has a "Settings" menu, not just courses.

The settings of conventional and learning path courses vary slightly.

You can use the "Metadata", "Info", "Execution" and "Share" tabs to specify information that will be visible on the info page of the course.

Profile

Name Course settings
Available since Release 13.0 (OO-3706)

Tab Metadata

Tab "Metadata" active, first in the tab bar

Metadata name the course and classify it. The metadata can be used to make your course easier to find, for example. Only the title is mandatory.

After creating, copying or importing a learning resource, OpenOlat opens the settings on this tab. This way you check the title and reference right at the start .

Metadata of a course are

  • Title
  • Reference (An external identifier that is displayed in the course overview. E.g. the name from the course catalog or a printed course catalog.)
  • Type of the learning resource (in this case: course)
  • Implementation format (blended learning, self-study, ...)
  • Subjects (from the taxonomy)
  • License

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More about metadata >
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Tab Info

Tab "Info" active, second in the tab bar

Here you define information about the course or learning resource. This includes:

  • Cover image and teaser movie
  • Teaser (text line/term)
  • Description
  • Facts: Authors / taught by, Main language and Expenditure of work
  • Display settings: which sections the info page shows
  • Additional information: Objectives, Requirements and Certification

This information is also visible to interested parties without course access on the info page.

More about the set up of the info page >
More about the content of the info page >
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Tab Execution

Tab "Execution" active, third in the tab bar

Here you can

  • set the implementation period of the course,
  • switch on and configure the "Absence management", provided it is switched on in the system administration under Administration > Modules > Events / Absences,
  • copy a conventional course as a learning path course with "Duplicate as learning path"
  • and for learning path courses set how the learning progress is calculated: based on the number of course elements or on the duration of the course elements.

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Tab Share

Tab "Share" active, fourth in the tab bar

In the "Share" tab, you define how and for whom a course or learning resource is released.

  • Whether access is only possible for selected members, the course itself can be selected and booked or access is completely open
  • When participants can withdraw from the course
  • Whether only administrative roles of a specific organizational unit are granted access
  • Whether and how other authors can access the course
  • Whether external OER catalogs and search engines receive information
  • Whether an offer is made in the catalog for the course and if so, which one
  • Whether the course can also be used from another LMS via LTI

Details about the Share tab >
More about sharing >
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Tab Catalog

Tab "Catalog" active, between "Share" and "Terms of use"

Here you add the course to one or more categories of catalog 1.0. You only see the tab if the administration has switched on catalog 1.0 and the course has the usage "Standalone".

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Tab Terms of use

Tab "Terms of use" active, fifth in the tab bar

Here you store course-related terms of use and a course-related privacy policy that persons agree to before the course opens. You only see the tab if the administration has switched on the option "Course related terms of use and data protection".

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Tab Layout

Tab "Layout" active, sixth in the tab bar

In the Layout tab you determine how the course looks and how participants move through it. Here you

  • select a layout template for the course,
  • set the course navigation
  • and determine the style of the course elements.

Which layout templates are available is determined by the system layout (theme) that applies to your entire OpenOlat instance. The "Default" template is always available. A uniform appearance for all courses (colors, fonts, logo) is therefore implemented centrally via a custom system layout, see Layout. For a single course, choose the option "Customize...": there you set the font and colors for text, headings, links, menu and toolbox and upload a logo. In addition, you can store your own CSS files in the "courseCSS" folder of the course Storage folder. They then appear in the selection as "from course folder". You open the storage folder under:
Course > Administration > Storage folder

In the "Navigation" section you can set the visibility of the menu and crumb navigation. In learning path courses you also specify whether the icons and the path are displayed in the menu ("Display icons in menu", "Display path in menu"). Depending on the linear or flexible scenario, one or the other variant offers itself.

Status symbols on a line on the left, the symbol of the course element in front of each title Only the titles of the course elements, status symbols on the right

In the section "Course element default style" you can define the default presentation of the course elements and, for example, upload a background image and define the style of the image as well as assign a color category. In the preview you can see the effects.

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Tab Toolbar

Tab "Toolbar" active, seventh in the tab bar

Here you can switch the toolbar in the course header on or off and define which specific individual tools are displayed to course participants in the toolbar.

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Tab Assessment

Tab "Assessment" active, eighth in the tab bar

In the Assessment tab, you can make settings for

  • Course assessment with points: sum, average, weighted
  • Requirements for passing the course
  • The role of coaches in the assessment process
  • Activate and configure evidence of achievement
  • Activate and configure credit points
  • Activate and configure course certificates and also set up recertification
  • Activate the award of badges

Important

For conventional courses, only the settings for evidence of achievement, certificates and badges are available in the "Assessment" tab. You set the requirements for passing in the course editor on the top course element in the "Score" tab:
Course > Administration > Course editor > top course element > Tab "Score"

There is no progression for conventional courses.

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For more details on certificates >
For more details on recertification >
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Tab Options

Tab "Options" active, last in the tab bar

Here you activate as required

If you have an administrative role (learning resource manager, administrator), OpenOlat shows you further options here, provided the corresponding modules are switched on:

  • activate the invitation of external users for course owners with author rights
  • activate the "LTI 1.3" release for course owners with author rights

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Further information

Course Administration: Overview >
Creating Courses >

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