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User tools

Section Personal tools in the personal menu, marked with a frame and an arrow, with twelve entries from Calendar to E-mail

You can find the user tools as a section in the personal menu.

Which tools are offered to you here is determined on the one hand by the activation in the system administration. On the other hand, you decide yourself whether the tools appear in the personal menu or as an icon in the main navigation.



Calendar

In the personal calendar, you can see your private appointments as well as entries from group and course calendars that have been added to your personal calendar via the calendar list.

You can create private appointments that only you can see, or public appointments that other OpenOlat users with access rights can also see.

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Subscriptions

Video introduction (German): Subscriptions

Would you like to be informed promptly about changes to courses and groups? Then you can set up subscriptions for the desired course elements. News will then be sent to you once a day by e-mail.

You can subscribe to change notifications for the following objects:

  • Forum
  • Folder
  • Wiki
  • Calendar
  • Task
  • File dialog
  • Portfolio binders
  • Notifications
  • Participant folder
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Video
  • Projects

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File Hub

The File Hub lists all folders you have access to: course folders, group folders, archive folders and more. You can also reach your personal files via the File Hub.

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Notes

You can write notes in every course. Here you can see which notes you have made and can edit and print them out.

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Booking orders

All your booking orders are listed here, including further booking information.

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Other users

You can search for other OpenOlat users, view public visiting cards, browse the "public" section of other users' personal files, view shared portfolio binders or contact the respective persons using the contact form.

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Absences

If the module for lectures and absences is activated, you can view the absences recorded for you at this point.

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Portfolio 2.0

A portfolio is used to collect and document (learning) artifacts, learning outcomes and learning processes, as well as to promote reflection on one's own development process. Learning products can be collected here and made accessible to specific people if required.

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Media Center

The Media Center is the central collection point for media:

  • Different media types (file formats),
  • which (depending on the access authorization assigned) can also be used by different people
  • and can be used in different places in OpenOlat.

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To-dos

The tasks to be completed (to-dos) can be found in several places in OpenOlat (e.g. within a project). In the personal menu you will find all your personal to-dos summarized in an overview.

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E-mails

You can view all e-mails sent and received in OpenOlat under E-mails. The e-mail history in OpenOlat is saved, thus maintaining an overview of e-mails received and sent. For a better overview, you can sort and display e-mails by context.

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Evidence of achievement, certificates, badges, competences and credit points are in the personal menu in the section "Achievements/Successes". You find the links to these pages in the quick links on the page Personal menu.

Tip

If you prefer to have your tools displayed in the main navigation instead of the personal menu, you can move the menu option from the personal menu there. You make the setting for this under
Personal menu > Configuration > Settings > Tab "System" > User tools
All tools that you mark here are displayed in the main navigation at the top right instead of in the personal menu and can thus be accessed more quickly.