Glossary

A reference glossary of product-specific terms used in OpenOlat. These terms have specific meaning within the OpenOlat LMS. The glossary is generated automatically from the OpenOlat term model and holds 712 terms.

A

Absence

A person missing an event. It counts as authorized or not authorized, depending on whether a recognised reason has been given.

German: Absenz · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Absence list

The printable list of the recorded absences of an event, per participant and unit. It is produced from the event's menu after the roll call.

German: Absenzenliste · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Absence management

The entry in the main navigation for handling absences across courses by absence managers: cockpit, events, absences, notices, appeals, user search and report over all courses.

German: Absenzenverwaltung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Absence manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It manages the events, attendances and absences of its own organisation and closes the events.

German: Absenzenverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Abstention

A committee member's explicit refusal to judge an application.

German: Enthaltung · Domain: Selectus

Access code

An offer type in which only people with the right code can book. The code is handed out outside OpenOlat.

German: Zugangscode · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Access configuration

The area of a learning resource where the offers are set: who may book, at what price and in which period.

German: Zugangskonfiguration · Domain: Course · Manual

Access control

The module that decides who may enter a learning resource and on what conditions. It manages the offers, the bookings and the payment methods.

German: Zugangskontrolle · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Access for coach

The publication status in which a course is visible to the coaches but not yet to the participants. It serves the preparation in the team before the start.

German: Freigabe Betreuer:innen · Domain: Course · Manual

Accessibility

The accessibility of the interface for people with a disability. OpenOlat follows WCAG 2.1 level AA and can be operated with a keyboard and a screen reader.

German: Barrierefreiheit · Domain: Platform · Manual

Access roles

The roles for people without a regular account: guest and invitee.

German: Zugangsrollen · Domain: Roles

Account

A person's access to OpenOlat, with a username, profile entries, roles and organisation membership. In German this object is called Konto and not Benutzer:in, because the gendered form becomes unreadable in running text.

German: Konto · Domain: Platform · Manual

Action to-dos

The measures that follow from the results of a data collection, kept as to-dos with a responsible person and a deadline. They close the circle from measurement to improvement.

German: Massnahmen To-dos · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Active Directory Federation Services

The connection to Active Directory Federation Services for signing in with the organisation's Windows account.

German: Active Directory Federation Services · Domain: Platform

Activities

The complete list of the actions in a project, with the person and the point in time. It makes it traceable who changed what.

German: Aktivitäten · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Activity

A single action in the project, for example creating a note or changing an event.

German: Aktivität · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Additional condition

A further rule beside the first one. The interface separates the main condition from the additional ones, but all of them are checked alike.

German: Zusatzbedingung · Domain: Course · Manual

Additional sheet

An extra sheet in the printout of a test that gives the candidate room for side calculations and notes.

German: Zusätzliche Seite · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Administration

The area for configuring the system. It can only be reached through the system role System administrator.

German: Administration · Domain: Platform · Manual

Administrative access

The assignment of a learning resource to one or more organisations. It decides which administrators and learning resource managers may manage the resource, regardless of who owns it.

German: Administrative Freigabe · Domain: Roles · Manual

Administrator

Organisation role. An organisation role that unites all administrative roles of one organisation. It is the superuser of that organisation. Its reach ends at its own organisation and its sub-organisations; it does not act system-wide and does not open the system configuration.

German: Administrator:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Adobe Connect (Course)

A course element that embeds an Adobe Connect room into the course. Coaches schedule sessions, participants join from inside the course.

German: Adobe Connect · Domain: Course · Manual

Adobe Connect (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the web conferencing system Adobe Connect.

German: Adobe Connect · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

AI call

A single request from OpenOlat to an AI model, triggered by an AI feature. Every call is recorded as a row in the usage log, with the feature, provider, model, duration, tokens and the status Success or Failed.

German: KI-Aufruf · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

AI Feature

One place of use of AI in the product, for example the MC question generator. Every feature is switched on individually and is given a provider, a model, an upper limit for input and output, and a timeout.

German: KI Funktion · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

AI feedback

The formative feedback learners fetch on their free text answer in the quiz of a page. It consists of the assessment, an overall assessment, the reliability and the sections "What went well", "What is missing", "Next step" and "Language". It awards no points. In the question editor the tab that holds the grading kit carries the same name.

German: KI-Feedback · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

AI module

The module that manages the connection to AI services: which providers are available, which features are active, which model each feature uses and how many calls may run at the same time. It provides no feature for learners itself but serves the features of other modules.

German: KI Modul · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

AI processing pool

The quota of simultaneous AI calls per server node. The AI module keeps two pools apart, so that one long job does not block the calls someone is waiting for.

German: KI-Verarbeitungs-Pool · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

AI Provider

The service whose models an AI feature uses. Several providers can be set up at the same time, and each feature picks one of them. A provider is only ready for use once its API key has been checked.

German: KI Anbieter · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Alias

A self-chosen name a person writes under in a forum. The alias hides the real name from the other participants, not from the coaches.

German: Pseudonym · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Analysis

The area where the answers of several data collections are analysed together, with filters, groupings, a heatmap and a trend.

German: Analyse · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Analytics module

The module that embeds an external service for analysing usage behaviour: where people spend their time, which browsers and devices they use. Google Analytics and Matomo are available. The operator must inform people about the service.

German: Analytics Modul · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Animation

A learning resource for an animation file.

German: Animation · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Annotation

A text box that appears over the video for a set time and shows an explanation.

German: Annotation · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Answer

One answer option of a question. It is stored as right or wrong and carries the points that choosing it brings.

German: Antwort · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Anthropic Claude

The AI provider Anthropic Claude, connected through an API key. Using it produces costs on the operator's account.

German: Anthropic Claude · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

API-Key

A pair of client ID and client secret a third-party system signs in to the REST API with. User management creates it under Authentication; the secret can be read only once. The administration can restrict API access to accounts with an API key.

German: API-Key · Domain: Platform · Manual

Appeal

A person's objection against a recorded absence. It is only possible within the appeal period.

German: Rekurs · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Applicant

Selectus role. A person who applies for a call in Selectus.

German: Bewerber:in · Domain: Roles

Application

An applicant's submission for a call, made up of personal data, academic background and the uploaded documents.

German: Bewerbung · Domain: Selectus

Application form

The multi-step form with which a person applies for a call: personal data, academic background, project, up to four custom steps of the call, documents and attachments, data protection. The staff configures the steps and fields per call.

German: Bewerbungsformular · Domain: Selectus

Apply

The site for applicants. It shows the published calls and leads through the application form. Applicants reach it without an OpenOlat account through the link of a call or through the login page.

German: Bewerben · Domain: Selectus

Appointment

A single selectable time slot in an occasion of the appointment scheduling, with a start, an end, a location, an optional limit of participants, an enrolment deadline and an online room. Participants enter and withdraw themselves.

German: Termin · Domain: Course · Manual

Appointment booking

A type of occasion: participants enter themselves for one or more fixed appointments from a selection, optionally with a limited number of participants and confirmation by the organizers.

German: Terminbuchung · Domain: Course · Manual

Appointment finding

A type of occasion: participants pick all appointments that suit them, the organizers then confirm the final common appointment.

German: Terminfindung · Domain: Course · Manual

Appointment scheduling

A course element that groups appointments into occasions. As an appointment booking, participants enter themselves for fixed appointments; as an appointment finding, they pick suitable appointments and the organizers confirm one of them.

German: Terminplanung · Domain: Course · Manual

Archiving & Reporting

The course tool with which owners create a complete or a partial archive of the course and generate reports such as the forum report.

German: Archivierung & Reports · Domain: Course · Manual

Article

The content part of a wiki page, as opposed to its discussion and its version history.

German: Artikel · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Assessment (Assessment)

The judgement on a person's performance in an assessable course element, expressed as a status, points or a grade. It judges people; quality management judges offerings instead.

German: Bewertung · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Assessment (Course)

A course element in which coaches assess a performance without anything being submitted in OpenOlat. It serves performances outside the platform, for example a presentation or an exam in the classroom.

German: Bewertung · Domain: Course · Manual

Assessment (ePortfolio)

The coaches' judgement on a binder: points and passed per section, entered in the binder's Assessment tab. The result flows into the portfolio task course element and thus into the course's assessment tool. Single entries are not assessed, only commented on.

German: Bewertung · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Assessment (Tasks and practice)

The step in which coaches assess the submitted work and award points, a status or a grade.

German: Bewertung · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Assessment documents

Files coaches store with an assessment, for example a corrected exam sheet or an assessment rubric.

German: Bewertungsdokumente · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Assessment inspection

The supervised look at one's own corrected exam. The person who took the exam sees their answers and the assessment in a set window of time, without being able to change anything.

German: Prüfungseinsicht · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Assessment management

The management of assessment mode and assessment inspection. In the course it is the tool of the course administration with the two tabs assessment mode and assessment inspection. In the administration under e-Assessment it lists the assessment modes of all courses and holds the settings.

German: Prüfungsverwaltung · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Assessment mode

A window of time in which a course becomes an exam. During the assessment mode all other areas of OpenOlat are locked, access can be limited to particular machines and the Safe Exam Browser can be required.

German: Prüfungsmodus · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Assessment orders

The area of the coaching site that collects one's own open assessment work across all courses: open assessments, open levels/gradings, assessments to release and one's own grading assignments.

German: Bewertungsaufträge · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Assessment tool

The area of a course where coaches and owners see, assess, release and reset all results of the participants.

German: Bewertungswerkzeug · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Assignment (ePortfolio)

A brief in a section of the binder, set by the template: an essay, a document or a form. The learner picks the assignment for editing and answers it with an entry.

German: Aufgabe · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Assignment (Tasks and practice)

The step in which the participant receives their assignment. It is assigned to them or chosen by them from a list.

German: Aufgabenstellung · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Assignment coaches/participants

The workflow setting that assigns one coach to every participant, manually or automatically. The assigned coach then assesses these submissions and is notified about new ones.

German: Zuweisung Betreuende/Teilnehmende · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Assignment of dates

A course element for handing out single dates, for example exam or consultation slots.

German: Terminvergabe · Domain: Course

Assignments

The section of the Coaching entry page with one's own work: Assessment orders, Reports and Order management. Which buttons appear depends on role and modules.

German: Aufgaben · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Assistant professor

The professorship type for a fixed-term professorship at the start of the academic career, often with an option to become permanent.

German: Assistenzprofessur · Domain: Selectus

Attendance

The record that a person took part in an event. It is recorded per unit and condensed into the attendance rate.

German: Anwesenheit · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Attendance list

The printable list of the participants of an event with a column for the signature. It is signed before or during the event and proves attendance on paper.

German: Präsenzliste · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Audio (Content and media)

An audio recording on a page, from the Media Center or recorded in the browser.

German: Audio · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Audio (Learning resources)

A learning resource for a single audio file.

German: Audio · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Audio/video recording

The module with which people record audio and video directly in the browser: in the media center, in the content editor, in the task and in the video editor. The recording is converted in the background into a browser-friendly format, locally or by an external service.

German: Audio/Video-Aufnahme · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Authentication

The proof that a person is who they claim to be. OpenOlat supports several methods side by side, and one account can carry several of them.

German: Authentifizierung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Author

Organisation role. An organisation role. It allows learning resources to be created in the authoring area. Authors manage their own resources, not those of the organisation.

German: Autor:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Authoring

The area where learning resources are created, edited, copied and managed. It is only accessible with the Author role or with an administrative role.

German: Autorenbereich · Domain: Platform · Manual

Automation

The rules the Course Planner uses to carry out recurring work on its own, for example creating courses from templates or opening and closing implementations.

German: Automatisierung · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Automation rule

A single rule of the automation. It consists of a trigger, either a status change or a point in time relative to the implementation period, and an action such as instantiate a course or set a status. The element type provides it, the implementation can override it.

German: Automatisierungsregel · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Award criteria

The conditions under which a badge is awarded, for example a passed course or a score that has been reached.

German: Vergabekriterien · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Awarded badge

The single badge a person has received from a badge class, with recipient, date of award and image. The metadata sits inside the image itself; that way the badge can be downloaded, shared on LinkedIn and verified.

German: Vergebener Badge · Domain: Evidence · Manual

B

Badge

A digital credential following the Open Badges standard, with an image, criteria and an issuing body. Unlike the certificate it can be shown outside OpenOlat and checked by a machine.

German: Badge · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Badge class

The kind of a badge, with an image, a description, an issuer and award criteria. The single credential is one issue of this class to a person. A badge class can exist in several versions; recipients keep the version that was awarded.

German: Badge-Klasse · Domain: Evidence · Manual

BigBlueButton (Course)

A course element that embeds BigBlueButton rooms into the course. Coaches schedule sessions, participants join from inside the course, recordings stay available in the course.

German: BigBlueButton · Domain: Course · Manual

BigBlueButton (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the free web conferencing system BigBlueButton. Coaches create online meetings in the course element, the course, the group, the appointment scheduling and the coach chat. OpenOlat balances the load across several BigBlueButton servers and controls the rooms through room templates. Recordings are kept on the BigBlueButton server or in Opencast.

German: BigBlueButton · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Billing address

The address the invoice goes to. It can differ from the address of the person booking, for example when the employer books.

German: Rechnungsadresse · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Binder

The collection in which a person organises their portfolio work: a binder is divided into sections, and every section holds entries and assignments. It comes into being empty, from a template, from existing entries or by collecting a portfolio task in a course. The owning person shares it, wholly or in parts, for commenting and assessment.

German: Mappe · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Black list

The list of courses or implementations a generator is to skip. It exempts single cases from an otherwise general rule.

German: Negativliste · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Blog (Course)

A course element that embeds a blog learning resource into the course. It informs participants about current topics in reverse chronological order.

German: Blog · Domain: Course · Manual

Blog (Learning resources)

A learning resource for posts in reverse chronological order. Readers can subscribe to the posts and comment on them.

German: Blog · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Booking

The process by which a person gains access to a learning resource. It ends with the membership in the course or with a place on the waiting list.

German: Buchung · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Booking order

The record created by a booking. It holds who booked what, when and at what price, and is kept after the course has ended as well.

German: Buchungsauftrag · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Building

A building that rooms belong to. It carries a reference, an address with a map, a colour for lists and calendars and the restriction to particular organisations.

German: Gebäude · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Bulk assessment

Assessing many participants in one pass, through an uploaded table or an input form. It saves opening every single person.

German: Massenbewertung · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Business analyst / Supplier

A role in the project for external supply or analysis. It creates and edits objects in the project but manages no members.

German: Business-Analyst:in / Lieferant:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

C

Calendar (Collaboration)

A calendar with events. OpenOlat keeps personal, course and group calendars apart and shows them layered. Calendars can be subscribed to from an external calendar program.

German: Kalender · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Calendar (Course)

A course element that ties the course calendar into the course menu.

German: Kalender · Domain: Course · Manual

card2brain

The connection to the flashcard platform card2brain for learning with online flashcards.

German: card2brain · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

card2brain flashcards

A course element that shows a flashcard set of the card2brain platform in the course so that participants practise with online flashcards.

German: card2brain Lernkarten · Domain: Course · Manual

Catalog (module)

The module that puts learning resources and implementations with an offer on display for booking. It is structured through the taxonomy and the launchers. Without an offer a resource does not appear. Without signing in it is reachable as the web catalog, if that is switched on.

German: Katalog · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Catalog (navigation entry)

The Catalog entry in the main navigation through which signed-in people open the catalog. It is the platform's shop window. For people without an account the web catalog mirrors it.

German: Katalog · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Catalog (Collaboration)

The folder structure of the library as readers see it. It is the content of the resource folder chosen as the library in the administration.

German: Katalog · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Catalog administration

The entry in the main navigation through which catalog 1.0 is maintained: its categories and the assignment of learning resources. It appears only when catalog 1.0 is switched on. Catalog 2.0 is managed in the administration under modules.

German: Katalogverwaltung · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Certificate

A PDF that certifies the successful participation in a course or the completion of a certification program, with name, date and serial number. The evidence of achievement shows what someone has done; the certificate attests it to the outside world. Externally earned certificates can be uploaded if the administration allows it.

German: Zertifikat · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Certificate of Study

A certificate confirming a completed course of study.

German: Studienbescheinigung · Domain: Selectus

Certificate template

The template OpenOlat generates a certificate PDF from. It is a PDF form or an HTML template as a ZIP with index.html; the HTML template needs the PDF service. The administration provides system-wide templates, course owners upload their own.

German: Zertifikatsvorlage · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Certification program

A program that ties several courses together into one certification and watches over its validity. It calls for a recertification once the validity has run out.

German: Zertifikatsprogramm · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Certification program owner

A role in the Course Planner. Certification program owners manage a certification program: they add members, renew or revoke certificates and maintain the settings and messages.

German: Zertifikatsprogrammbesitzer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Challenge

An intermediate goal made up of several practice series. After finishing a challenge the participant sees their ranking and their learning status statistics.

German: Challenge · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Change log

The record of every change to an assessment, with the person and the point in time. It is the basis when an assessment is contested later.

German: Änderungsverlauf · Domain: Assessment

Chapter

A jump mark in the video. Learners pick a chapter and land at that point.

German: Kapitel · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Chat

Short messages in real time between signed-in people, one to one or in the room of a course or a group.

German: Chat · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Chatroom

A chat room belonging to a course or a group. All members can enter it without writing to each other one by one.

German: Chatraum · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Check box

A single item of a check list, with a label, a description, an optional file and points. Participants or only coaches tick it off.

German: Checkbox · Domain: Course · Manual

Check list

A course element with a list of points that participants or coaches tick off. Working on it can be locked after a submission date, and the ticks can award points.

German: Checkliste · Domain: Course · Manual

Check list (old)

The earlier implementation of the check list, kept for existing courses. New courses use the check list.

German: Checkliste (alt) · Domain: Course

Citation

A highlighted quotation with its source. It lives as a medium in the Media Center and can be used more than once.

German: Zitat · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Clinical expertise

Evidence of an applicant's clinical experience. It is required for medical professorships.

German: Klinische Expertise · Domain: Selectus

Cloud login

The collective term for the sign-in methods in which a third-party provider handles the sign-in and OpenOlat only receives the confirmation. In the interface the area is called Cloud Login.

German: Cloud Login · Domain: Platform · Manual

Coach

Course role. A course role. Coaches accompany the participants of a course or a group, see all results and assess them. They do not change the configuration of the course.

German: Betreuer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Coach details

A block in the form that shows details of the assessed coach of a data collection. It is meant for quality management forms.

German: Angaben zum:r Betreuer:in · Domain: Quality management and forms

Coach files

The folder of a course that only owners and coaches see. It holds material not meant for participants.

German: Unterlagen Betreuer:innen · Domain: Course · Manual

Coaching

The area where coaches follow their learners across all courses, with progress, assessments, attendance and certificates in one place.

German: Coaching · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Coach's notifications

The list of notifications to a coaching person from their courses and groups, reached via the link Coaching activities on the entry page and as an entry of its own in the administration.

German: Betreuer:innen Benachrichtigungen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Code example

A block of source code with syntax highlighting, optionally with line numbers and a copy button.

German: Code-Beispiel · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Collaborative tools

The tools switched on individually for a group: information for members, e-mail, calendar, folder, forum, chat, wiki, portfolio and the virtual classrooms. Tools that are switched off do not appear in the group.

German: Kollaborative Werkzeuge · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Combined document

All documents of an application merged into a single PDF, for reading and printing.

German: Kombiniertes Dokument · Domain: Selectus

Comment

An overlay as text or as a short video that gives extra information at one point of the video.

German: Kommentar · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Comments

Feedback below an entry. Shared persons with comment rights write them once the entry is published; administration sets whether comments are visible in the overview and in the entries.

German: Kommentare · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Comments and ratings

The service with which readers comment on a piece of content and rate it with one to five stars. Blog and podcast switch it on per feed; comments can carry attachments and be replied to.

German: Kommentare und Bewertungen · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Committee

The body of a call that judges the applications and decides on them. It is made up of the head, the secretary, the committee members and the ex-officio members; every call has its own committee.

German: Kommission · Domain: Selectus

Committee assignment

The allocation of applications to individual committee members. It sets who has to judge which application.

German: Kommissionszuweisung · Domain: Selectus

Committee decision

The formal resolution of the committee on an application. It closes the rating and is the basis for the correspondence.

German: Kommissionsentscheid · Domain: Selectus

Committee member

Selectus role. A member of the appointment committee who judges the applications assigned to them and records reviews.

German: Kommissionsmitglied · Domain: Roles

Committee rating

The combined rating of an application by the whole committee, as opposed to the rating of a single member.

German: Kommissionsbeurteilung · Domain: Selectus

Committee role permissions

The setting that says which committee role may do what in a position: rate, take notes, see reviews, read comments. For each right the Selectus manager picks the admitted roles from member, head, secretary and ex officio.

German: Rollenrechte der Kommission · Domain: Selectus

Communication

The section of the Coaching entry page that counts and links new requests per resource: the instant messaging notifications to the coaching person, with red dot and count.

German: Kommunikation · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Comparative assessment

An expert assessment in which several applications of the same call are compared with each other.

German: Vergleichsgutachten · Domain: Selectus

Comparative assessment expert

Selectus role. An expert who judges several applications of the same call against each other in one comparative assessment.

German: Vergleichsgutachter:in · Domain: Roles

Competence

An ability attributed to a person, named through a taxonomy level. It comes about through assignment or through passing a course.

German: Kompetenz · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Complete archive

A course archive with all course elements, course results, course chat and log files. It can be created for one course or as a bulk action for several courses in the authoring area.

German: Gesamtarchiv · Domain: Course · Manual

Condition

The rule that steers the visibility and access of a course element in the conventional course: blocked for learners, depending on date, group or assessment, only in assessment mode. In expert mode it is written as an expression.

German: Bedingung · Domain: Course · Manual

Configuration

The section of the personal menu below the User tools, with the profile, the settings and the password. The manual calls it Personal configuration.

German: Konfiguration · Domain: Platform · Manual

Confirmation code

The code OpenOlat sends to the given e-mail address at registration and at Forgot password? to confirm it. It is valid for 30 minutes; registration keys created through the REST interface are valid for 30 days.

German: Validierungscode · Domain: Platform

Consents

The recorded consents of a person to the terms of use, with the point in time and the version of the text.

German: Einwilligungen · Domain: Course · Manual

Contact tracing

The module people use to register their presence at locations with a QR code, with an account or as a guest. The registrations are deleted after the retention period of 40 days and exported only on official request.

German: Kontaktverfolgung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Container

A layout frame that holds other content elements in columns. It sets the number of columns and the spacing.

German: Container · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Content editor

The block-based editor that content is assembled from out of paragraphs, images, tables and form elements. It provides the page course element, the form learning resource and the portfolio pages.

German: Content Editor · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Content element

A building block of a page: a paragraph, an image, a table, a quiz. The "add content" dialog offers them in groups, and they can be moved around the page freely.

German: Inhaltselement · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Context help

The question mark icon on pages and in forms that opens the matching page of the OpenOlat Manual. It only works when the manual is active as a help entry.

German: Kontexthilfe · Domain: Platform · Manual

Contexts

A usage context of a user property, for example the profile, the registration or the visiting card. Per context and property there are four switches: include, Mandatory, Admin only and User readonly.

German: Contexts · Domain: Platform · Manual

Conventional course

A course design in which the participants navigate the course menu freely. Access to single elements is steered through conditions, not through an order.

German: Herkömmlicher Kurs · Domain: Course · Manual

Core functions

The Administration section with the basic functions of the platform: e-mail, files and folders, landing pages, REST API, WebDAV, calendar, notifications and more.

German: Core Konfiguration · Domain: Platform · Manual

Correction

A person reviewing and grading a submitted piece of work. It is needed wherever OpenOlat cannot assess automatically, for instance with free text questions.

German: Korrektur · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Correction request

The coaches' request to revise a submitted solution. It starts another round of revision.

German: Korrekturanforderung · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Correction tool

The tool in which coaches or correctors correct the manually assessed questions of a test: award points and leave comments, question by question or person by person.

German: Korrekturwerkzeug · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Corrector

Course role. A person who grades a particular test submission by hand in the correction workflow. They receive the job through the grading assignments and need no role in the course.

German: Korrektor:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Correct solution

The right answer of a question, stored as feedback. The candidate sees it automatically after a wrong answer; for essay, upload file and drawing it serves the correctors as a reference.

German: Korrekte Lösung · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Cost center

The place in the organisation's accounting that carries the cost of a booking.

German: Kostenstelle · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Course

A course is a learning resource, but a special one: it is the only one that keeps members, roles and assessments. No other learning resource has any of that, and they are embedded into a course in order to reach participants. The course ties content, activities and assessment into one structured sequence.

German: Kurs · Domain: Course · Manual

Course and group roles

The roles granted in a course or in a group: owner, coach, participant. They apply in that one resource only.

German: Kurs- und Gruppenrollen · Domain: Roles · Manual

Course archive

All the data of a course assembled into a file for keeping, with assessments, submissions, forum posts and test results. It preserves the evidence beyond the deletion of the course.

German: Kursarchiv · Domain: Course · Manual

Course editor

The area where the structure of a course is edited: creating, arranging and configuring elements. Changes only take effect once they are published.

German: Kurseditor · Domain: Course · Manual

Course element

An element that can be added to the course structure in the course editor.

German: Kursbaustein · Domain: Course · Manual

Course execution

The counter of how often a person has run through the same course: the first run or a repetition for recertification.

German: Kursdurchführung · Domain: Course · Manual

Course Planner (Course Planner)

The module that switches on the planning of the educational offering in OpenOlat: products with elements and implementations, element types, course templates, automation, to-dos and reports. It replaces the earlier Curriculum module and grants the memberships of the courses it embeds.

German: Course Planner · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Course Planner (Platform)

The area for planning the educational offering: products, their elements, the implementations and the courses hanging off them. It used to be called Curriculum.

German: Course Planner · Domain: Platform · Manual

Course planner

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It creates products, elements and implementations in the Course Planner, manages their members and assigns courses to them.

German: Kursplaner:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Course Planner roles

The roles that hang on a product or an element of the Course Planner and reach from there into the courses.

German: Course-Planner-Rollen · Domain: Roles · Manual

Course reminders

Automatic e-mails to participants, fired by a condition in the course, for example a missing submission or an approaching deadline.

German: Kurserinnerungen · Domain: Course · Manual

Course rights

The nine right packages an owner grants in members management to coaches, participants or a group: course editor, members management, assessment tool and more.

German: Kursrechte · Domain: Roles · Manual

Courses (Coaching)

The area of the coaching site that lists all courses in which the person is coach or owner, with the number of participants, progress and success status per course.

German: Kurse · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Courses (Platform)

The overview of the courses a person is a member of, with the progress and the last access.

German: Kurse · Domain: Platform · Manual

Courses - As coach

The widget of the Coaching overview with the coached courses: figures Relevant, Favourites, Published, Coach access and Finished above a course list with progress and success status. Show all opens the Courses area.

German: Kurse - Als Betreuer:in · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Course statistics

The course tool that counts the accesses to the course elements and shows them as a table and a chart: per hour, per day, per weekday and per week. Counted is the click on an element in the course menu, not the click inside its content.

German: Kurs Statistiken · Domain: Course · Manual

Course template

A course assigned to an element in the Course Planner in order to instantiate a course of its own from it for every implementation. The template itself is not attended and stays unchanged.

German: Kurstemplate · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Course to-do

An open item inside a course, with a responsible person and a deadline. It appears in that person's personal to-do list as well.

German: Kurs To-do · Domain: Course · Manual

Covering letter

The covering letter of an application, in which the applicant sets out why they are interested in the professorship.

German: Anschreiben · Domain: Selectus

COVID certificate

The module a person uses to record the validity of their COVID certificate in the personal menu, by QR scan, import or manually. Only the expiry date is stored. COVID commissioners record certificates for others in the site COVID Certificate Administration.

German: COVID-Zertifikat · Domain: Platform · Manual

CP learning content (Course)

A course element that shows learning content in the IMS Content Packaging format.

German: CP-Lerninhalt · Domain: Course · Manual

CP learning content (Learning resources)

A learning resource in the IMS Content Packaging format. It holds finished learning content with its own navigation, produced in another tool.

German: CP-Lerninhalt · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Credit

A transaction that adds credit points to a person, as a rule after a passed course.

German: Gutschrift · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment

Credit points

The module that keeps credit points per person in a credit point system, credits them for passed courses and debits them again in certification programs for recertification. Paying for bookings with credit points is announced but not implemented.

German: Kreditpunkte · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Credit point system

A named system of credit points with its own unit and its own rules, for example ECTS. One installation can run several of them.

German: Kreditpunktesystem · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Curriculum vitae

An applicant's curriculum vitae with education, posts and academic career.

German: Lebenslauf · Domain: Selectus

Customizing

The Administration section for the appearance and adaptation of the platform: Sites, Help, User Properties, Imprint, Terms of use and languages.

German: Customizing · Domain: Platform · Manual

D

Dashboard (Platform)

An overview page made of widgets a person arranges themselves: add, remove and move widgets and reset them to the system default. The Course Planner and Coaching open with a dashboard.

German: Dashboard · Domain: Platform · Manual

Dashboard (Selectus)

The start page of applicants after signing in. It lists their own applications with status and deadline and leads to the referee management.

German: Dashboard · Domain: Selectus

Data collection

A single collection run with one form, one topic, a period and a set of respondents. It is the unit of work of quality management.

German: Datenerhebung · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Data collection generator

A rule that creates data collections on its own as soon as an event occurs, for example the end of a course. It saves creating the same kind of collection over and over.

German: Datenerhebungsgenerator · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Data collection participation

The participation of a single person in a data collection. It records whether someone answered, not what they answered.

German: Teilnahme Datenerhebung · Domain: Quality management and forms

Data collection previews

The overview of the upcoming data collections that generators are going to create. It is available in quality management, in the course administration and in the Course Planner and must be switched on in the administration.

German: Datenerhebungsvorschau · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Datenlotsen

The connection to the identity server of Datenlotsen, the maker of the campus management system CampusNet, for signing in through OpenID Connect.

German: Datenlotsen · Domain: Platform

Date / Time

An input field in the form for a date, optionally with a time of day.

German: Datum / Zeit · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Debit

A transaction that subtracts credit points from a person, for example when they are redeemed for a recertification.

German: Belastung · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment

Decision (Collaboration)

A decision recorded in the project, with a date and a justification. It keeps a traceable record of what was decided and why.

German: Entscheid · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Decision (Selectus)

The committee's result on an application, with A, B or C. A marks the strongest candidacies, C is the basis for a rejection.

German: Entscheid · Domain: Selectus

Decision tool

A grid of weighted rubrics with which the head and the staff record one more rating after the screening, for example on the talk. The sum of the rubrics supports the decision. Committee members have no access.

German: Entscheidungswerkzeug · Domain: Selectus

Deep Linking

A service of LTI 1.3 with which authors pick a specific content of the external tool in the course element LTI page instead of entering only its start address. Administration enables it per tool; the button "Select content" then opens the tool's content picker.

German: Deep Linking · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Degree certificates

The certificates of the academic degrees reached.

German: Abschlusszertifikate · Domain: Selectus

Deployment

The configured connection to an LTI tool or an LTI platform, with keys, addresses and the statement of which data is transferred. A deployment applies to a single course or group (local) or to the whole system (global, with shared deployment).

German: Deployment · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Diagram

A drawing made with draw.io on a page: a flowchart, a process, an org chart. It stays editable.

German: Diagramm · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Disadvantage compensation

An adjustment of the exam conditions for a person with a disability or an impairment, as a rule as extra time. It applies to that person and leaves the task unchanged.

German: Nachteilsausgleich · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Discussion

The discussion on a wiki page. It keeps the conversation about the content apart from the content itself.

German: Diskussion · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Dispensation

The advance exemption from the attendance requirement for a period. The units concerned do not count against the attendance rate.

German: Dispens · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Document (Content and media)

A file on a page, to download or as an embedded preview.

German: Dokument · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Document (Course)

A course element that shows a single document straight in the course: a PDF, an image, an Office file or a draw.io diagram. Per role it can be set who may edit and download the document.

German: Dokument · Domain: Course · Manual

Document editor

An embedded editor with which files in the folders of OpenOlat are opened and edited in the browser. Administration enables the editors one by one and can restrict their use to roles.

German: Dokumenteneditor · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Document pool (Collaboration)

The module for a document collection structured by the taxonomy. Permissions are granted per taxonomy level, which makes it suitable for documents of differing confidentiality.

German: Dokumentenpool · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Document pool (Platform)

The area for a document collection structured by the taxonomy. The permissions are granted per taxonomy level.

German: Dokumentenpool · Domain: Platform · Manual

Documents and attachments

The step of the application form with all documents an application brings with it. Which documents are available and which are compulsory is set by the call.

German: Dokumente und Anhänge · Domain: Selectus

Drag and Drop

A question type like the matrix but with dragging instead of ticking. The candidate drags the terms into the matching categories.

German: Drag and Drop · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Drawing

A question type in which the candidate works on a given background image with drawing tools. It has to be assessed manually.

German: Zeichnen · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

draw.io

The connection to the diagram editor draw.io. It provides the whiteboard in the Projects module and the diagram editor in the file areas.

German: draw.io · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Drop box (Course)

The folder in the participant folder element where a participant uploads their files. Only they and the coaches see it.

German: Abgabeordner · Domain: Course · Manual

Drop box (Tasks and practice)

The folder inside a task element where a participant uploads their work. Only they and the coaches see it.

German: Abgabeordner · Domain: Tasks and practice

E

Edubase (Course)

A course element that opens licensed e-books of the Edubase textbook platform in the course, optionally from a given page.

German: Edubase · Domain: Course · Manual

Edubase (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the textbook platform Edubase. Participants open the licensed e-books straight from the course.

German: Edubase · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Educational products (Coaching)

The Coaching area with the Course Planner implementations in which the person coaches or owns, with their structure of elements and courses. The button appears only when the Course Planner module is on.

German: Bildungsprodukte · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Educational products (Course Planner)

An educational offering kept in the Course Planner, made up of several courses and implementations, as coaching and the catalogue show it.

German: Bildungsprodukte · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Education manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role for training responsibility. In coaching it sees the same overview as the line managers and additionally takes on administrative tasks such as checking booking orders and blocking accounts.

German: Ausbildungsverantwortliche:r · Domain: Roles · Manual

edu-sharing (Course)

A course element that shows a content item from the edu-sharing education cloud in the course. The content stays in edu-sharing and is only referenced.

German: edu-sharing · Domain: Course · Manual

edu-sharing (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the edu-sharing repository. Content stays in the education cloud and is referenced in the course.

German: edu-sharing · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Element

A node in the structure of a product. Depending on the element type it stands for a study programme, a semester, a module or an implementation. The elements form the hierarchy the courses are hung into.

German: Element · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Element owner

Curriculum role. Manages a single element in the Course Planner, usually an implementation, with its members and courses. The reach ends at that element.

German: Elementbesitzer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Element type

The kind of an element in the Course Planner. The element type sets which elements are allowed below it, whether the element keeps members and how it appears in the catalogue.

German: Elementtyp · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

E-mail (tool)

The group tool with which members of a group write an e-mail to all or selected coaches and participants. It is a contact form, not a mailbox.

German: E-Mail · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

E-mail (concept)

A message OpenOlat sends or receives: notifications, reminders, messages from the E-mail course element and from the members management.

German: E-Mail · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

E-mail (Course)

A course element with a contact form. Participants write through it to recipients set in advance, without knowing their address.

German: E-Mail · Domain: Course · Manual

E-mail inbox and outbox

The Administration page under Core functions, E-mail. It switches the OpenOlat inbox on and decides whether e-mails go only to the inbox or also to the personal e-mail address; plus the e-mail template.

German: E-Mail Postfach und Versand · Domain: Platform · Manual

Email log

The table in the mail center with all e-mails of a call already sent, with recipients, template and time.

German: E-Mail-Protokoll · Domain: Selectus

E-mail message

The text a reminder sends: subject and body, with variables for name, course and course link.

German: E-Mail-Benachrichtigung · Domain: Course · Manual

E-mail support

The help entry that opens a contact form to the support address of the installation. The administration enters the address; switched off by default.

German: E-Mail Support · Domain: Platform · Manual

Embedding model

A model that turns text into a vector of numbers, so that closeness in meaning can be computed. Taxonomy matching uses it to assign a text to the right taxonomy level. It produces no text.

German: Einbettungsmodell · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Embed glossary terms

The highlighting of the glossary terms in the course text. A dotted underline marks a term; the definition appears on hover. Learners switch the highlighting on and off in the toolbar.

German: Glossarbegriffe einbinden · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Enrolment (course element)

A course element participants use to enter themselves into course groups. It can limit places and keep a waiting list.

German: Einschreibung · Domain: Course · Manual

Enrolment (concept)

The binding allocation of a topic to a participant in the topic broker. It follows the selection period, triggered automatically or by hand, and is calculated with a fair algorithm from selections and priorities.

German: Einschreibung · Domain: Course · Manual

Enrolment process

One run of the allocation algorithm. Started by hand, several runs can be calculated and compared; the coaches accept one of them.

German: Einschreibevorgang · Domain: Course · Manual

Entry (ePortfolio)

A page in a binder, built with the content editor from text, images, videos, documents and forms. An entry answers an assignment or stands on its own. The person writes it as a draft and publishes it; after that it can no longer be edited, only commented on.

German: Eintrag · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Entry (Learning resources)

A post in a blog, with title, summary, content, image and publication date. It is a draft, scheduled or published; readers can comment on it, rate it and take it into the media center.

German: Eintrag · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Episode

A post in a podcast with an audio or video file attached. It is played in OpenOlat, downloaded or listened to in a podcast app through the RSS feed.

German: Episode · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

ePortfolio

The module learners use to document and reflect on their learning processes. It gives every person binders, sections and entries, and the portfolio task course elements distribute binders from a template through it. Administration switches it on or off under e-Assessment.

German: ePortfolio · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Essay

A question type with a free text field. The candidate writes the answer themselves, which is why the question has to be assessed manually.

German: Freitext · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Essay Grading

The AI feature that produces formative feedback on the free text answers of learners. It supplies hints on the answer, no grade and no status. It works only in the quiz of a page, not in the course elements test and self-test. The assessment stays with the coaches.

German: Essay Bewertung · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Essay Question Generator

The AI feature that produces free text questions together with grading criteria from a source text or an uploaded file. The criteria are the basis essay grading later produces feedback from.

German: Essay Fragen Generator · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Evaluation (ePortfolio)

The filled-in form of an assignment of type form. The person evaluates themselves, and depending on the setting shared persons give an external evaluation, openly or anonymously; the comparison sets several evaluations side by side.

German: Einschätzung · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Evaluation (Selectus)

The site where referees and experts submit their letters and where public feedback is given. It opens through a personal link without an OpenOlat account.

German: Auswertung · Domain: Selectus

Event (Events and absences)

A schedulable teaching unit of 1 to 12 units, with a date, a room and lecturers. It is the unit attendance is recorded for.

German: Termin · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Event (Collaboration)

An entry in a calendar with title, start, end, location, description and links. It sits in the personal, the course or the group calendar and can recur.

German: Termin · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Events

The widget of the Coaching overview with the events of the current week from today, with week navigation, status, reference, location and duration. It appears only if the person has events; Show all opens Events / Absences.

German: Termine · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Events / Absences

The area of the coaching site for events and absences of the coached persons, with the tabs cockpit, events, absences, notices, appeals and user search. It appears only when the events and absences module is switched on.

German: Termine / Absenzen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Events and absences

The module for classroom operation: events with teachers and units, the roll call per event and the resulting absences, notices and appeals. The administration switches it on system-wide and sets the defaults, course owners activate it per course in the settings under Execution.

German: Termine und Absenzen · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Evidence of achievement

The collection of all results a person has in a course, one per assessable course element, with points, status and date.

German: Leistungsnachweis · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Exam course

A course created only to run an exam. The wizard creates it with the assessment mode and the test in one step.

German: Prüfungskurs · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Excel

A learning resource for an Excel document. It can be edited in the browser when ONLYOFFICE or Microsoft 365 is connected.

German: Excel · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Exception

A deviation from the execution of a course element for particular people: by group, organisation, account, user property, passed course element or course execution number. Several exceptions are joined with "or".

German: Ausnahme · Domain: Course · Manual

Ex-Officio

Selectus role. A person who belongs to the appointment committee by virtue of their office. The visibility of comments and reviews is configured separately for this role.

German: Ex-Officio · Domain: Roles

Expert

Selectus role. An external specialist appointed by the committee who writes an expert opinion on an application.

German: Gutachter:in · Domain: Roles

Expert assessment

A written judgement of an application by an external specialist appointed by the committee.

German: Gutachten · Domain: Selectus

Expert mode

The view of the visibility and access tabs in which the condition is written as an expert rule: an expression of functions such as isCourseCoach(0), operators and dates.

German: Expertenmodus · Domain: Course · Manual

Export

A job that produces a ZIP file in the background and offers it for download for a limited time, 10 days by default. The assessment tool, the course archive, Coaching and the Course Planner use the same mechanism.

German: Export · Domain: Platform · Manual

Export history

The list of the exports of a course or a person, with status, progress, Available until and the download. It appears in the assessment tool under Export data, in the Authoring area, in Coaching and in the Course Planner.

German: Exportverlauf · Domain: Platform

External evaluation

The evaluation a shared person gives on another person's assignment. It is only possible if the assignment allows it, and it can be anonymous.

German: Fremdeinschätzung · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

External expert

Selectus role. A specialist from outside the organisation who writes an expert opinion on an application. They are given access only to the applications assigned to them.

German: Externe:r Gutachter:in · Domain: Roles

External funding

Evidence of the research funding raised from external funders, with the amount and the funder.

German: Drittmittel · Domain: Selectus

Externally managed groups

Groups that an external system creates and maintains, for example the fxSyncher through the REST interface. Managed properties such as title, members or tools are locked in OpenOlat; administrators can override the lock.

German: Extern verwaltete Gruppen · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

External page

A course element that shows an external web page in the course and ties it into the course navigation.

German: Externe Seite · Domain: Course · Manual

External site

A tab of the main navigation that opens an external web address, embedded as an iframe or as a link. Title and URL are set per language. There are two such sites; they only appear once configured.

German: Externe Seite · Domain: Platform · Manual

F

Facebook

The connection to Facebook for signing in with the Facebook account through OAuth 2.0.

German: Facebook · Domain: Platform · Manual

Faculty feedback

Feedback on an application collected from faculty members who do not belong to the appointment committee.

German: Fakultätsfeedback · Domain: Selectus

Faculty member

Selectus role. A member of the faculty who is asked for feedback on an application without belonging to the appointment committee.

German: Fakultätsmitglied · Domain: Roles

Feedback

A text the candidate sees after answering. It can be stored separately for the right answer, the wrong answer and single answer options.

German: Feedback · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

File

A learning resource for a single uploaded file whose format OpenOlat does not treat specially.

German: Datei · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

File dialog

A course element that combines the folder and the forum. Every uploaded document gets a discussion of its own.

German: Dateidiskussion · Domain: Course · Manual

File Hub

The area that shows the files from all courses, groups and a person's own storage in one place.

German: File Hub · Domain: Platform · Manual

Files (collaboration.files)

The files of a course, a group or a project, stored together and searchable together.

German: Dateien · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Files (collaboration.project_files)

The file area of a project. Files can be uploaded, created in the project or taken over from other areas of OpenOlat.

German: Dateien · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Files and folders

The Administration page for the file storage of the whole system, with the tabs Overview, Configuration, Quotas, Large files and Trash. Versioning, the retention period of the trash and the default quotas are set there.

German: Dateien und Ordner · Domain: Platform · Manual

Floating entry

An entry that is assigned to no binder. It is created under My entries, can later be imported into a binder and, without a share, is visible to the person alone.

German: Floating Eintrag · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Folder (Collaboration)

A folder for files, with permissions per folder, versioning and access through WebDAV.

German: Ordner · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Folder (Course)

A course element that offers files for download, for example course material. Coaches can also open the folder for uploads by participants.

German: Ordner · Domain: Course · Manual

Form (Course)

A course element that embeds a form learning resource for participants to fill in. Unlike the survey the answers can be traced to a person.

German: Formular · Domain: Course · Manual

Form (Quality management and forms)

The generic learning resource for recorded entries, built in the content editor. It is used in six places with a different meaning each time: as an assessment rubric in the ePortfolio, in the assessment course element and in the task course element including the peer review; as a quality rubric in quality management and in the survey course element; as a form in the form course element. The meaning comes from the place that embeds it, not from the form.

German: Formular · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Form letter

A PDF letter produced from a template and sent together with an e-mail, for example a letter of rejection.

German: Serienbrief · Domain: Selectus

Forum (Collaboration)

An area for asynchronous discussions. Posts stay readable for good, can be searched and can be subscribed to.

German: Forum · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Forum (Course)

A course element for asynchronous online discussions. Participants open topics, reply to each other and subscribe to new posts.

German: Forum · Domain: Course · Manual

Full professor

The professorship type for a permanent professorship with the full scope of research, teaching and self-administration. It is the highest of the professorship types.

German: Ordentliche Professur · Domain: Selectus

Full-text search

The search across the content of the whole platform, including the text of documents. It only shows what the searching person has access to.

German: Volltextsuche · Domain: Platform · Manual

G

Gallery

Several images as a gallery on a page, with thumbnails and a large view.

German: Galerie · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Gap FIB numerical

A question type like the gap text but for numbers only. A permitted tolerance can be set for every gap.

German: Lückentext numerisch · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Gap FIB text

A question type with a running text that has gaps built into it. The candidate types the missing text in.

German: Lückentext · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Gap mixed

A question type that combines text gaps, numerical gaps and dropdown gaps in one running text. It can hold a calculation and its justification in a single question, for example.

German: Lückentext gemischt · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Gap with dropdown

A question type that combines the gap text with single choice. Instead of typing, the candidate picks the content of the gap from a dropdown.

German: Lückentext mit Dropdown · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Generated report

The Excel file a report template has produced. It stays available for download for ten days, shows the remaining time and can be copied or deleted.

German: Generierter Report · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Generic AI Provider

An AI provider connected through an OpenAI-compatible interface, for example vLLM, Ollama or LiteLLM. It allows a model to be run in the institution's own data centre, so that no data leaves the house. Every installation carries such a provider under the fixed identifier Generic_0.

German: Generischer KI Anbieter · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Glossary

A learning resource with terms and their explanation. Embedded in a course it highlights the terms in the course text and shows the explanation on hover.

German: Glossar · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Google

The connection to Google for signing in with the Google account through OAuth 2.0. The person signs in at Google, OpenOlat receives the confirmed identity.

German: Google · Domain: Platform · Manual

Google Analytics

The connection to Google Analytics through a tracking ID. The analysis is held by Google.

German: Google Analytics · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

GoToMeeting (Course)

A course element that embeds GoToMeeting and GoToTraining sessions into the course.

German: GoToMeeting · Domain: Course · Manual

GoToMeeting (Integrations and standards)

The connection to GoToMeeting and GoToTraining for virtual sessions.

German: GoToMeeting · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Grade

The value a performance is named with under a grading system, for example the grade 5 or the verdict good. It comes from the points through the grading scale.

German: Note · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Grading assignment

The order given to a correcting person to grade a particular test submission by hand, with a deadline and recorded correction time. It serves where the correction is given out and billed outside the course team.

German: Korrekturauftrag · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Grading kit (reference + model answer)

What essay grading measures an answer against: learning objective, reference excerpt, model answer, key points, rubric criteria and common misconceptions. The essay question generator fills it in, the author maintains it in the tab "AI feedback" of the question. Without the kit the AI has no yardstick.

German: Bewertungs-Kit (Referenz + Musterantwort) · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Grading scale

The assignment of ranges of points to grade values. It translates a score into a grade.

German: Bewertungsskala · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Grading system

A named system of grade values, for example the Swiss scale from 1 to 6. It sets which values exist and which of them count as passed.

German: Bewertungssystem · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Group

A group of people who work together, with members, tools and a lifecycle of their own. It can exist inside a course or independently of any course in the Groups area.

German: Gruppe · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Group life cycle

The scheduling of a group. It sets when a group automatically becomes inactive, when it is deleted and who is warned beforehand.

German: Gruppen-Lebenszyklus · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Group management

The area for group managers in the Groups menu. It shows all groups of the system, other people's included, and allows editing, merging, inactivating and deleting any group.

German: Gruppenverwaltung · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Group manager

System role. A system role. It manages the groups of the whole system. It is a system role and not an organisation role, because groups are not assigned to an organisation so far.

German: Gruppenverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Groups (Coaching)

The area of the coaching site that lists all coached groups from courses, with the participants of the group and their state.

German: Gruppen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Groups (Platform)

The area for groups that belong to no course. People create their own groups there or join open ones.

German: Gruppen · Domain: Platform · Manual

Group task

A course element with the same task workflow as the task, but for groups. A group submits together and receives one assessment.

German: Gruppenaufgabe · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Guest

Access role. Access without signing in, with read access to the resources explicitly released for guests. Guests have no account, do not become members and leave no assessment behind.

German: Gast · Domain: Roles · Manual

Guest access

Access to OpenOlat without an account through the Guest access link on the login page. Guests only see resources explicitly released for guests, and only in conventional courses.

German: Gastzugang · Domain: Platform · Manual

H

Head of Committee

Selectus role. Leads the appointment committee, sees all applications and steers the procedure.

German: Kommissionspräsidium · Domain: Roles

Heat map

The view of the analysis that shows the average values per grouping and question as coloured dots. The colour follows the quality ranges of the rubric, the size follows the number of answers. It makes problem areas visible at a glance.

German: Heatmap · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Help

The help menu in the header with links to the OpenOlat Manual, the OpenOlat Academy and the teaching session, optionally with e-mail support, a help course and three custom URLs. The administration chooses the entries under Customizing, Help.

German: Hilfe · Domain: Platform · Manual

Highscore

The ranking of the points reached in an assessable course element. It can be shown anonymised and motivates through comparison.

German: Rangliste · Domain: Course · Manual

History

The tab of a binder that lists all changes in chronological order, the newest at the top. Administration can switch it off.

German: Änderungsprotokoll · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Home

The personal entry area of a person, with their courses, events, notifications, notes and settings.

German: Home · Domain: Platform

Home base

The organisation a person belongs to through the User role. It decides which accounts and which offers this person sees. Every account has at least one home base.

German: Home Base · Domain: Roles

Hotspot

A question type with an image that has areas defined on it. The candidate clicks the areas that apply, either one or several.

German: Hotspot · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Hottext

A question type in which single terms in a running text can be marked. The candidate picks the terms that apply in the text.

German: Hottext · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

HTML page

A course element that shows a single HTML page with texts, images and videos. The page sits as a file in the storage folder of the course.

German: HTML-Seite · Domain: Course · Manual

HTML text code

A block of raw HTML, for embeddings no other element covers.

German: HTML-Textcode · Domain: Content and media · Manual

I

ICal feed link

The personal address under which an OpenOlat calendar can be fetched in the iCal format. A foreign calendar program subscribes to the calendar through this address and shows the events there.

German: iCal Feed-Link · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Image (Content and media)

An image on a page. It comes from the Media Center and is therefore available across courses.

German: Bild · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Image (Learning resources)

A learning resource for a single image file.

German: Bild · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Image comparison

Two images on top of each other with a slider that moves between them.

German: Bildvergleich · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Image Description Generator

The AI feature that produces a title, a description, alt text and keywords for uploaded images. The alt text is the part that counts for accessibility. In the media center it starts from a button, on Markdown import into the content editor it runs in the background. It is not available for SVG images.

German: Bildbeschreibungs-Generator · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Implementation

The concrete run of an educational offering, with a period, a location, members and courses. The product describes what is offered, the implementation when and with whom it actually runs.

German: Durchführung · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Imprint

The legally required statement of who operates the platform. The text is set per installation.

German: Impressum · Domain: Platform · Manual

Info message

A message that appears on the login page, that is before signing in. It announces maintenance work, for example, or explains an outage.

German: Info Meldung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Info messages

The Administration page under System where the info message for the login page and the maintenance message for all pages are set, each with an optional start and end date.

German: Info messages · Domain: Platform · Manual

Info page (Course)

The page that describes a learning resource before a person enters it, with the description, the period, the coaches and the option to book.

German: Infoseite · Domain: Course · Manual

Info page (Platform)

A course pinned as a tab of the main navigation. The title of the tab is set per language, the course toolbar can be shown to everyone. There are four such sites, Info page n°1 to n°4.

German: Infoseite · Domain: Platform · Manual

Information for members

The group tool for messages to all members of a group. Coaches or, depending on the setting, all members write the messages; subscribers receive them by e-mail.

German: Information an Mitglieder · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Inheritance

The passing on of an administrative organisation role to the sub-organisations. Whoever manages an organisation thereby manages everything below it. The User role is not inherited.

German: Vererbung · Domain: Roles

Inspector

The panel in the content editor that opens for a selected layout or content element and sets its properties: the options of the element type, the style with background and alert box, and layout and spacing. The gear icon shows and hides it.

German: Inspektor · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Instantiation

Creating a course from a course template for a particular implementation. The template stays unchanged and serves further implementations.

German: Instanziierung · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Instant Messaging

The module for short messages in real time. It shows who is signed in and allows conversations between single people as well as in course and group rooms.

German: Instant-Messaging · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Invitation link

The link through which an external person without an account gets access to exactly one resource: a course, a group, a project or a portfolio binder. On first use an external account with the role Invitee is created, which expires after 180 days.

German: Einladungslink · Domain: Platform · Manual

Invitations (Collaboration)

Access for external people without an account. The invited person gets access to a single resource through a link, and their account expires with the invitation.

German: Einladungen · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Invitations (Platform)

The site an invited external person sees as their only navigation entry. It lists the resources their invitations lead to. Regular accounts and guests never see it.

German: Einladungen · Domain: Platform

Invitee

Access role. An external person who is given access to a single resource through an invitation. The account comes into being with the invitation, belongs to no organisation and expires with it.

German: Einladung · Domain: Roles · Manual

Invoice

The payment method in which the amount is invoiced later instead of being paid online straight away.

German: Rechnung · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

J

JupyterHub (Course)

A course element that provides a Jupyter image. Participants start their own Jupyter environment for interactive computing from it.

German: JupyterHub · Domain: Course · Manual

JupyterHub (Integrations and standards)

The connection to JupyterHub through LTI 1.3. Participants get their own Jupyter environment for interactive computing from inside the course; the course element sets which image the hub starts.

German: JupyterHub · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

K

Keycloak

The connection to Keycloak, a free identity provider, through OpenID Connect.

German: Keycloak · Domain: Platform

Key figures

The statistical values the analysis summarises the answers with.

German: Kennzahlen · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Kprim

A question type with exactly four statements. The candidate decides for each statement whether it applies. Zero to four statements can be right, and the point scheme is fixed.

German: Kprim · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

L

Landing page

The page a person sees after signing in. The administration sets rules by role or by value of a user property; the first matching rule applies. A person overrides them in the settings with their own landing page.

German: Startseite · Domain: Platform · Manual

Language model

The model of a provider that an AI feature calls. A separate model is chosen per feature, so that expensive models only run where they are needed.

German: Sprachmodell · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Late submission

The setting that allows a submission after the deadline up to a second date. Such submissions carry the marking Late, and coaches see the delay in the assessment tool.

German: Verspätete Abgabe · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Launcher

A configurable section on the start page of the catalog that assembles catalog entries by a rule. There are seven launcher types, for example taxonomy level, recently published or popular courses.

German: Launcher · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

LDAP

The connection to an LDAP directory. Accounts are taken from it and the sign-in is checked against the directory.

German: LDAP · Domain: Platform

Leader

A role in the project for the lead in substance. Leaders edit the project, create objects, close them and manage the members. They do not manage external members.

German: Leiter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Leadership philosophy

The document in which an applicant sets out how they intend to lead a research group or an institute.

German: Führungsphilosophie · Domain: Selectus

Learning area

A named grouping of several course groups. A condition in the course then addresses the learning area instead of every group one by one.

German: Lernbereich · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Learning groups

A group inside a course. It steers who sees which course elements and is the unit participants enter themselves into through the enrolment.

German: Lerngruppen · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Learning path

The ordered sequence of the course elements in a learning path course. It sets what is to be done in which order, measures the progress per element and can exempt elements for individual people.

German: Lernpfad · Domain: Course · Manual

Learning path course

A course design that puts the course elements into an order and measures the progress per element. It steers through the learning path and exceptions, whereas the conventional course steers through conditions.

German: Lernpfadkurs · Domain: Course · Manual

Learning resource

A content object managed in the authoring area: course, test, form, video, wiki and others. It carries metadata, owners and a lifecycle and can be embedded into courses.

German: Lernressource · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Learning resource manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It manages the learning resources assigned to its organisation through the administrative access, without being an owner itself.

German: Lernressourcenverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Learning status

A person's standing per question, expressed as a level. Answering a question correctly three times in a row reaches level 3; a wrong answer lowers the level again. Progress can be read off this way without points.

German: Lernstand · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Letter of recommendation

A letter of recommendation written by a referee named by the applicant.

German: Referenzschreiben · Domain: Selectus

Level

The compartment of the flashcard file in the practice. Every right answer raises a question by one level, a wrong one lowers it by one; the configuration sets the number of levels.

German: Level · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Levels/Grading

The module where the grading systems and their scales are maintained. It sets which grades exist and from which score a grade is reached.

German: Einstufung/Noten · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Level type

The kind of a taxonomy level. The level type sets whether levels of this type are visible, can serve as a competence and may group evidence of achievement.

German: Ebenentyp · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Library (Collaboration)

The module for a shared document collection of the whole system. People submit documents, an administrative body releases them, and afterwards everybody can read them.

German: Bibliothek · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Library (Platform)

The area for a shared document collection of the whole system, with a release step before publication.

German: Bibliothek · Domain: Platform · Manual

Life cycle

The scheduled course of a course or a group from its creation through the automatic finishing and deactivation to its deletion.

German: Lebenszyklus · Domain: Course · Manual

Line manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role for line responsibility. In coaching it sees the learning progress of the staff reporting to it across products, implementations and courses. It can receive a copy of their certificates if the administration switches that on.

German: Linienvorgesetzte:r · Domain: Roles · Manual

LinkedIn

The connection to LinkedIn for signing in with the LinkedIn account through OAuth 2.0.

German: LinkedIn · Domain: Platform · Manual

Link list

A course element that shows an ordered collection of links in the course menu.

German: Linkliste · Domain: Course · Manual

List

A personal collection of questions in the question bank with which a person orders their own questions. The list changes nothing about who sees a question.

German: Liste · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

List of calendars

The list of all calendars a person sees layered in the personal calendar: their own, the course and group calendars and imported calendars. Display and colour can be chosen per calendar.

German: Kalenderliste · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

List of referees

The list of referees an applicant has named, with the state of each request.

German: Referenzenliste · Domain: Selectus

Local OpenOlat authentication

Signing in with a username and a password that OpenOlat manages itself. It is the basic method and works without a third-party system.

German: Lokale OpenOlat-Authentifizierung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Login

The Administration section for sign-in and access: password and authentication, self-registration, guests and external people, security, cloud login, LDAP, Shibboleth and passkey.

German: Login · Domain: Platform · Manual

Lost+found

The storage folder of a taxonomy for the documents of deleted taxonomy levels, for example from the document pool. It is the last tab of the taxonomy; the documents cannot be restored from there.

German: Lost+found · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

LTI

The Learning Tools Interoperability standard. It connects a learning platform with an external application: the signed-in person needs no second sign-in there, and the application can report points back. OpenOlat is the platform when it embeds a tool in the course, and the tool when it provides a course or a group to another platform.

German: LTI · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

LTI 1.3 access configuration

The section in the release tab of a course or a group in which OpenOlat is released as a tool for an external platform. One deployment is created per platform; people of the other platform are created as LTI accounts on launch and enter the course as participants or coaches.

German: LTI 1.3 Zugangskonfiguration · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

LTI page

A course element that embeds an external learning application through the LTI standard. The external application can report points back, which is why the element is assessable.

German: LTI-Seite · Domain: Course · Manual

M

Mail center

The area for bulk correspondence with applicants, with one template per decision group.

German: Mailcenter · Domain: Selectus

Mail template

A template for the correspondence of a call, for example the request to a referee or the letter of rejection. It holds placeholders that are filled in when it is sent.

German: E-Mail-Vorlage · Domain: Selectus

Maintenance message

A message that appears to signed-in people as a bar on every page, for example before a restart. It can be deleted automatically at the next restart.

German: Wartungsmeldung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Master coach

A role in the Course Planner. Master coaches look after the participants of an implementation across all the courses it contains, even where they are not entered as coaches in the single courses.

German: Klassenlehrer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Match

A question type with rows and columns. Per row the candidate ticks which column applies, either as single choice or as multiple choice.

German: Matrix · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Math formula

A formula written in LaTeX and rendered as typeset mathematics.

German: Mathematische Formel · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Matomo (Piwik)

The connection to Matomo through a site ID and a Matomo URL. Matomo runs on the institution's own server, and the analytics data stays in its own infrastructure. OpenOlat adds the Matomo URL to the content security policy.

German: Matomo (Piwik) · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

MC Question Generator

The AI feature that produces suggestions for multiple choice questions from a source text or an uploaded file, in the question pool and in the quiz of a page. The generation runs in the background. The suggestions are drafts: generated questions get the status Review, and every question must be checked for correctness one by one.

German: MC Fragen Generator · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Media Center (Content and media)

The module in which each person stores and manages their media: images, videos, audio, documents, citations, diagrams and texts. Media can be versioned, given tags and a license, and shared with people, groups, courses and organisations. Pages, forms and portfolios embed them instead of copying them.

German: Media Center · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Media Center (Platform)

The personal place to store images, videos, quotations and other media that are reused in pages and portfolios.

German: Media Center · Domain: Platform · Manual

Media server

An external video platform whose videos OpenOlat may embed by URL: YouTube, Vimeo, nanoo.tv and custom servers. The administration enables the servers in the security settings; restricted domains are not played.

German: Medien-Server · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

MediaSite

A course element that shows a presentation or a channel of the lecture recording system Sonic Foundry Mediasite in the course.

German: MediaSite · Domain: Course · Manual

Mediasite

The connection to the video platform Mediasite for lecture recording, video management and captioning. Content is embedded in the course as a single presentation or a channel; the connection runs through LTI 1.1 or LTI 1.3.

German: Mediasite · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Members

The people of a group with their roles. Coaches manage the members, invite people and keep the waiting list.

German: Mitglieder · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Membership (Course Planner)

The belonging of a person to a course, a group or an element of the Course Planner, together with their role in it.

German: Mitgliedschaft · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Membership (Evidence)

A person's affiliation with a certification program. Candidates take part in a linked implementation and hold no certificate yet; active members hold one; alumni have left the program.

German: Mitgliedschaft · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Message

The text of a message or e-mail that OpenOlat sends.

German: Nachricht · Domain: Collaboration

Metadata (Platform)

The describing entries on a file in a folder: title, description, author, publisher, source, language, pages, URL, date of publication and license, plus the switch Locked. The additional metadata show who created the file and who last modified it.

German: Metadaten · Domain: Platform · Manual

Metadata (Learning resources)

The describing entries on a learning resource: title, description, language, authorship, license, taxonomy and effort. They feed the catalogue and the search.

German: Metadaten · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Microsoft Azure Active Directory

The connection to Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, for signing in with the organisation's account.

German: Microsoft Azure Active Directory · Domain: Platform

Microsoft SharePoint / OneDrive

The connection to Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive as file storage. In the file hub and the media center files can be copied from SharePoint sites and OneDrive and written back there. Signing in through Microsoft Entra ID is a prerequisite; both services can be enabled separately.

German: Microsoft SharePoint / OneDrive · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Microsoft Teams (Course)

A course element that embeds Microsoft Teams meetings into the course. OpenOlat creates the meeting and opens it for the course members.

German: Microsoft Teams · Domain: Course · Manual

Microsoft Teams (Integrations and standards)

The connection to Microsoft Teams for online meetings. OpenOlat creates the meeting through the Microsoft Graph API on behalf of the signed-in person; signing in with the organisation's Microsoft account is a prerequisite. Participants join from OpenOlat, and Teams assigns the roles organizer, presenter and attendee.

German: Microsoft Teams · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Milestone

An event in the project that can be marked as reached. It shows whether an intermediate goal is done.

German: Meilenstein · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Movie

A learning resource for a video file that is only played, without the extras of the Video learning resource.

German: Film · Domain: Learning resources

Multi-absence recording

Recording the attendance for several events in one pass instead of event by event.

German: Multi-Absenzenerfassung · Domain: Events and absences

Multiple choice (Quality management and forms)

A question in the form with several answers of which more than one can be chosen.

German: Mehrfachauswahl · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Multiple choice (Testing and question bank)

A question type with at least two answer options, of which several can be chosen and several can be right.

German: Multiple Choice · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

My entries

The list of all of a person's own entries in chronological order, independent of the binder. It shows the status of every entry, offers a list view and a table view and the timeline. Not the tab of the same name in the authoring area, which lists one's own learning resources.

German: Meine Einträge · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

My portfolio binders

The list of all of a person's own binders under Portfolio 2.0. Here the person creates new binders: empty, from a template, from a course's portfolio task or from existing entries. Binders collected from a course carry a red side stripe and the course name.

German: Meine Portfoliomappen · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

N

News

The collected changes from all subscriptions of a person, as a list under Subscriptions and as a portlet on the start page. The list shows the latest change per resource in the chosen period.

German: Neuigkeiten · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Note

A note in the project. It holds text that all project members can read and edit, and it can be linked to other objects of the project.

German: Notiz · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Notes

Personal notes on a course. Only the person writing them sees them, and they are kept after leaving the course.

German: Notizen · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Notice

The entry that reports an absence for a period or for particular events: as a notice of absence, as a dispensation or as an absence without notification. Notices are recorded by participants themselves, by teachers or by absence managers.

German: Meldung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Notice of absence

The advance notice that a person will miss an event. It is given before the event, the absence is established afterwards.

German: Abmeldung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Notification

A message about a change a person has subscribed to. OpenOlat collects the notifications and sends them bundled as an e-mail.

German: Benachrichtigung · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Notifications

A course element for course notifications. Coaches publish short messages, optionally for a limited time, and can send them by e-mail.

German: Mitteilungen · Domain: Course · Manual

O

OAI-PMH

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting standard. External catalogues use it to collect the metadata of the published learning resources.

German: OAI-PMH · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Occasion

A set of several individually selectable appointments in the appointment scheduling, with a title, a description, organizers and a location. The occasion is either an appointment booking or an appointment finding.

German: Anlass · Domain: Course · Manual

Offer

The definition of the conditions under which a learning resource can be booked: for whom, in which period, at what price and in what way. One resource can carry several offers side by side.

German: Angebot · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

One time code

An eight-digit confirmation code OpenOlat sends by e-mail after the username and password have been entered. It is the second factor for accounts without a passkey and is switched off by default.

German: One Time Code · Domain: Platform · Manual

Online meeting (Events and absences)

The link between an event and an online session in BigBlueButton, in Microsoft Teams or through the meeting link of another provider. Participants enter the session straight from the event.

German: Online Meeting · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Online meeting (Integrations and standards)

A scheduled session in BigBlueButton or Microsoft Teams with a name, a date, lead and follow-up time, a main presenter and a room template. It is created in the course element, the course, the group or the appointment scheduling; participants join from OpenOlat. A permanent reservation is an online meeting without a date.

German: Online-Termin · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

ONLYOFFICE

The connection to ONLYOFFICE. It allows Office documents to be edited in the browser, by several people at the same time as well.

German: ONLYOFFICE · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

ONNX embedding model

An embedding model in the ONNX format that OpenOlat loads from a model directory on its own server. It supplies embeddings for taxonomy matching only and no language model. It needs no API key, and no text leaves the server.

German: ONNX Einbettungsmodell · Domain: Artificial intelligence

OpenAI

The AI provider OpenAI, connected through an API key. Using it produces costs on the operator's account.

German: OpenAI · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

OpenBadges

The Open Badges standard. It describes a digital credential in a way that makes it verifiable and lets it be shown outside the issuing platform.

German: OpenBadges · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Opencast (Course)

A course element that shows video recordings from an Opencast server in the course, as a single recording or as a series.

German: Opencast · Domain: Course · Manual

Opencast (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the free video management system Opencast. Recordings and series stay on the Opencast server and are only displayed in the course, not copied. Opencast can also take in the recordings of BigBlueButton.

German: Opencast · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

OpenID Connect

The OpenID Connect standard. It extends OAuth 2.0 with the proof of identity and is the method Keycloak, Microsoft Entra ID and similar providers are connected through.

German: OpenID Connect · Domain: Platform · Manual

OpenMeetings (Course)

A course element that embeds a room of the web conferencing system Apache OpenMeetings into the course.

German: OpenMeetings · Domain: Course · Manual

OpenMeetings (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the free web conferencing system Apache OpenMeetings. Every course element and every group with the group tool gets its own room on the OpenMeetings server.

German: OpenMeetings · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

OpenOlat Manual

The help entry that opens the manual at docs.openolat.org. The URL is configurable, for example for a manual of your own.

German: OpenOlat Handbuch · Domain: Platform · Manual

Order

A question type in which the candidate drags texts or images into the right order.

German: Reihenfolge · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Order management

The area of the coaching site for the correction workflow of tests. Owners of a test see their correctors, their grading assignments and the submissions not yet assigned, and they assign orders.

German: Auftragsverwaltung · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Organisation

A unit in the structure of the platform, for example a school, an institute or a department. Organisations are hierarchical, carry the roles of their members and limit what administrative roles can reach.

German: Organisation · Domain: Platform · Manual

Organisation roles

The roles that hang on an organisation. Their reach ends at that organisation and its sub-organisations. All of them except User are administrative and are inherited by sub-organisations.

German: Organisationsrollen · Domain: Roles · Manual

Organisation unit

The faculty or the institute a call belongs to, which provides a sender address and an e-mail signature of its own.

German: Organisationseinheit · Domain: Selectus

Organizer

Course role. The person responsible for an occasion and shown to the participants. The course element sets whether owners, coaches or both count as organizers.

German: Organisator:in · Domain: Course · Manual

Other applications

The list of the other calls the same person has applied for. Whether multiple applications are allowed is set in the configuration.

German: Weitere Bewerbungen · Domain: Selectus

Other file

A learning resource for an uploaded file whose format matches none of the other types.

German: Andere Datei · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Overview

The widget area of the Coaching entry page below the buttons, with the widgets Courses - As coach and Events. Customise overview lets the person arrange, remove and restore the widgets; system administration sets the system default.

German: Übersicht · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Owner

Course role. A course role with full responsibility for a learning resource. Owners edit the content, configure the resource, publish it and grant the other course roles.

German: Besitzer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

P

Page

A course element that presents content in a block-based layout. The page is written in the content editor straight in the course and needs no file.

German: Seite · Domain: Course · Manual

Partial archive

A course archive with chosen course elements and optionally further objects such as course results or log files.

German: Teilarchiv · Domain: Course · Manual

Partial elements

The steps of a course element that can be switched on, for example submission, revision and assessment in the task. Only the steps that are switched on appear to the participants.

German: Teilbausteine · Domain: Course · Manual

Participant

Course role. A course role. Participants work through the course and see their own results only.

German: Teilnehmer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Participant folder

A course element for exchanging files between participants and coaches. Every participant gets their own drop box and return box, seen only by them and the coaches.

German: Teilnehmer:innen Ordner · Domain: Course · Manual

Participant list

A course element that shows the members of the course grouped by role. Which roles and which entries are visible is configurable.

German: Liste der Teilnehmer:innen · Domain: Course · Manual

Participants accepted

The group of a topic in the topic assignment that lists the participants accepted for the topic.

German: Akzeptierte Teilnehmer:innen · Domain: Course · Manual

Participation

The entry of a person in an appointment. Participants enter and withdraw themselves, organizers can add, remove or rebook them to another appointment.

German: Teilnahme · Domain: Course · Manual

Passkey

Signing in without a password, following the WebAuthn standard. The person identifies themselves with a fingerprint, their face or a security key of the device.

German: Passkey · Domain: Platform · Manual

Password syntax

The rules an OpenOlat password must meet. Default: 12 to 128 characters, at least one letter, at least one digit or special character, neither the username nor the first or last name contained, and the last 10 passwords are blocked.

German: Passwort-Syntax · Domain: Platform · Manual

PayPal

The connection to PayPal as a payment method for paid offers.

German: PayPal · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

PDF

A learning resource for a PDF document. OpenOlat shows it in the built-in viewer, without it having to be downloaded.

German: PDF · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Peer review

The step in which participants review the work of other participants and give them feedback. OpenOlat distributes who gets whose work.

German: Peer-Review · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Pending confirmations

The Coaching area with the bookings of implementations that still need a confirmation. It appears when Course Planner and invoices are on and the person holds the right Pending course bookings.

German: Ausstehende Bestätigungen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Pending memberships

A person's memberships in implementations that need approval by a line manager or education manager. The person's detail view in Coaching offers Accept and Decline.

German: Ausstehende Mitgliedschaften · Domain: Coaching · Manual

People

The area of the coaching site that lists all participants a person coaches across all courses, grouped by the role one holds towards them. From there one click leads to the person's assessment tool.

German: Personen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Performance summary

The block with status, score, grade and comment of an assessment. Participants see it in the course element, coaches in the assessment form and there additionally as a preview of the participants' view.

German: Leistungsübersicht · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Personal RSS Feed

An RSS feed with the news from all subscriptions of a person. An RSS reader fetches it through a personal address, without signing in to OpenOlat.

German: Persönlicher RSS-Feed · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Platform

The system that embeds an LTI content and passes the sign-in along, in LTI terminology. In the tab "External platforms" OpenOlat records the foreign systems for which it is the tool itself.

German: Plattform · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Podcast (Course)

A course element that embeds a podcast learning resource into the course. Participants listen to or watch the episodes and can subscribe to them.

German: Podcast · Domain: Course · Manual

Podcast (Learning resources)

A learning resource for audio and video episodes that can be subscribed to. It provides an RSS feed through which episodes are listened to outside OpenOlat as well.

German: Podcast · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Pool

A collection in the question bank that questions are shared into so that others see them and take them into their own tests. Question bank managers create the pools; usually there is one public pool.

German: Pool · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Pool "Batch" (threads)

The pool for long-running AI jobs such as generating questions from page content. Such a job can take several minutes.

German: Pool "Batch" (Threads) · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Pool "Interactive" (threads)

The pool for AI tasks a person is actively waiting for, for example the feedback on a free text answer. It must be large enough to serve a learning group submitting at the same time.

German: Pool "Interaktiv" (Threads) · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Portal

A tab with freely arranged sections such as My courses, calendar, notes and subscriptions, which every person shows and hides themselves. Superseded since 10.0 and switched off by default.

German: Portal · Domain: Platform · Manual

Portfolio 2.0

The entry Portfolio 2.0 in the personal menu. It leads to the person's own binders, own entries, the media center, the shares and the trash.

German: Portfolio 2.0 · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Portfolio 2.0 template

A learning resource that prescribes the structure and the assignments of a portfolio binder. The portfolio task course element assigns every participant a binder made from this template.

German: Portfolio 2.0 Vorlage · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Portfolio roles

The roles the owner of a portfolio binder grants in the sharing tab. They apply in that one binder only.

German: Portfoliorollen · Domain: Roles

Portfolio task

A course element that assigns every participant a portfolio binder made from a template. Participants work on the binder and submit it for assessment.

German: Portfolioaufgabe · Domain: Course · Manual

Portfolio template

The binder that authors build in the learning resource Portfolio 2.0 template: sections with assignments, dates and settings. Every person who collects the portfolio task or books the template receives their own copy of it; changes to the template are synchronised into the copies.

German: Portfoliovorlage · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Position

An advertised professorship in Selectus. It holds the text of the call, the application form, the deadlines and the appointment committee.

German: Ausschreibung · Domain: Selectus

Post

A single post in a forum, with text, attachments and a note of which post it replies to.

German: Beitrag · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

PowerPoint

A learning resource for a PowerPoint presentation. It can be edited in the browser when ONLYOFFICE or Microsoft 365 is connected.

German: PowerPoint · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Practice (Course)

A course element for practising. Participants answer questions from a stock of questions over and over until they have solved a set number correctly. It serves the transfer of knowledge and self-checking.

German: Übung · Domain: Course · Manual

Practice (Tasks and practice)

A course element for practising on the flashcard principle. Participants answer questions from test learning resources or from shares of the question bank in practice series; wrongly answered questions come back. It awards no points, coaches see the learning status as levels.

German: Übung · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Practice series

A block of questions a participant works through in one go, for example ten questions. The configuration sets the number.

German: Übungsserie · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Pre-order

A booking recorded before the person has an account. It waits until the person signs in through Shibboleth or self-registration, and is then carried out.

German: Vorbestellung · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment

Previous survey

An earlier collection on the same topic, used as a comparison value. Without it no development over time can be shown.

German: Erstbefragung · Domain: Quality management and forms

Principal

Organisation role. An organisation role with the same reach as Administrator, but read only. Principals see the objects of their organisation and do not change them.

German: Principal · Domain: Roles · Manual

Privacy

The Administration page with the system-wide privacy rules: which roles see the administrative user properties, whether the last visit is visible and which data the course element External page transmits. A person has no privacy settings of their own.

German: Datenschutz · Domain: Platform

Privacy policy

The statement of which data the platform processes and for what purpose. It can be set system-wide and additionally per course.

German: Datenschutzerklärung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Product

The top level in the Course Planner. A product describes an educational offering with its structure, with the elements and the implementations hanging below it.

German: Produkt · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Product owner

Curriculum role. Manages a whole product in the Course Planner with all elements and implementations below it.

German: Produktbesitzer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Profile

The page in the personal menu where a person maintains their own entries: name, e-mail, address, institution, portrait and the About me text. Its tab My visiting card sets which entries others see.

German: Profil · Domain: Platform · Manual

Profile paper

The document that describes the profile of the advertised professorship and is available to the appointment committee.

German: Profildokument · Domain: Selectus

Project

The module for the project work of a group of people, with events, milestones, to-dos, decisions, notes, files and a whiteboard in one place. Unlike the course it teaches no content and assesses nobody.

German: Projekt · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Project manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It manages the projects of its own organisation, without being a member itself.

German: Projektverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Project office

A role in the project for the administrative lead: events, files and minutes. It does not lead the project in substance.

German: Projektbüro · Domain: Roles · Manual

Project roles

The roles inside a project.

German: Projektrollen · Domain: Roles

Projects

The area for project work, with events, to-dos, decisions, notes, files and a whiteboard per project.

German: Projekte · Domain: Platform · Manual

Publication

Making the changes made in the course editor visible to the participants. Until the publication the owners work on the course without disturbing the running operation.

German: Veröffentlichung · Domain: Course · Manual

Public feedback

Feedback given through a public link without signing in, for example after a trial lecture.

German: Öffentliche Rückmeldung · Domain: Selectus

Public feedback link

The link the staff generates and distributes per application. Whoever opens it gives public feedback without signing in, up to the submission deadline.

German: Link für öffentliche Rückmeldungen · Domain: Selectus

Public link

Access to a data collection without signing in. It allows people without an account to be surveyed as well, for example placement companies.

German: Öffentlicher Zugang · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Published groups

Groups with an offer that people join themselves in the Groups area. The offer is freely available, protected by an access code or paid; when the group is full the waiting list takes over.

German: Veröffentlichte Gruppen · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Q

QTI 2.1

The Question and Test Interoperability standard, version 2.1. It describes questions, tests and results in a way that lets them be exchanged between systems. OpenOlat uses it for the test, the self-test, the questionnaire and the question pool.

German: QTI 2.1 · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Quality feedback for reviewer

The peer review setting with which participants judge a review they received: whether it was helpful, with thumbs or stars.

German: Qualitäts-Feedback für Reviewer:in · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Quality management

The module for assessing an institution's own offerings and processes. It plans data collections, runs them, analyses the answers and follows up the measures derived from them. It sits at the end of the education cycle and assesses the offering, not the learners.

German: Qualitätsmanagement · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Quality manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It plans the data collections of quality management, runs them and analyses the results.

German: Qualitätsverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Question

A single question in a test, in a questionnaire or in the question bank. It carries the question text, the answer options, the points and the feedback.

German: Frage · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Question bank (Platform)

The area where questions for tests are collected, tagged, released and reviewed. Questions from the question bank can be used in several tests.

German: Fragenpool · Domain: Platform · Manual

Question bank (Testing and question bank)

The area where questions are collected, tagged, released and reviewed independently of a single test. The same question can be used in several tests this way.

German: Fragenpool · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Question bank manager

System role. A system role. It manages the question bank with the questions, the collections, the shares and the review process. It is a system role and not an organisation role, because the question bank is not assigned to an organisation so far.

German: Poolverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Questionnaire (Course)

A course element that embeds a test learning resource (QTI 2.1) configured as a questionnaire. The answers are analysed anonymously.

German: Fragebogen · Domain: Course

Questionnaire (Learning resources)

Legacy: a questionnaire learning resource in the QTI 1.2 format that collected opinions instead of measuring knowledge. It can neither be created nor imported. The questionnaire course element today embeds a test learning resource configured as a questionnaire.

German: Fragebogen · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Questionnaire (Testing and question bank)

The course element that embeds a test learning resource (QTI 2.1) configured as a questionnaire. It collects opinions instead of knowledge and analyses the answers anonymously.

German: Fragebogen · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Question type

The kind of a question. The question type determines how the candidate answers, how the points are calculated and whether OpenOlat can assess automatically.

German: Fragetyp · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Quick start

The area at the start of a project that shows the six most recently used files and notes and offers the upload directly.

German: Schnellzugriff · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Quiz (Content and media)

Questions right on the page, with no test element of their own. Learners answer while reading and see the result at once.

German: Quiz · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Quiz (Learning resources)

A question that stops the video at a set point. Learners answer before it goes on.

German: Quiz · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Quota

The storage space a folder may occupy at most, in KB. Every folder type has a default quota, for example course folder, groups or personal folder; the default is 200 MB. The administration overrides it per folder.

German: Quota · Domain: Platform · Manual

R

Rating (Learning resources)

The rating of a learning resource or a piece of content by its users with one to five stars. Shown is the average of all stars given; a person can change their own rating at any time. The administration switches the feature on or off system-wide.

German: Beurteilung · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Rating (Selectus)

The estimate of an application with A, B or C by a single committee member.

German: Beurteilung · Domain: Selectus

Rating policy

The rules of a call for who may see which ratings and reviews and from when. They stop committee members from influencing each other.

German: Beurteilungsrichtlinien · Domain: Selectus

Reason of absence

The classification of an absence maintained by the administration, for example illness or accident. It is chosen from a list on the absence or notice and has a say in whether the absence is authorized.

German: Absenzenbegründung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Reasons events

The list of reasons maintained by the administration for closing an event with a deviation, for example ended early. When closing, teachers choose a reason from the list; without entries the selection does not appear.

German: Begründungen Termine · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Recertification

The renewed issue of a certificate before or after it expires. In a single course participants complete the course again for it. In a certification program it runs automatically or by hand, optionally against credit points.

German: Rezertifizierung · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Recipients

Who receives the reminder. Either the course member the rules apply to, or specified recipients only, instead of that person.

German: Empfänger:innen · Domain: Course · Manual

Referee

Selectus role. A person named by the applicant who writes a letter of reference.

German: Referenzperson · Domain: Roles

Referee management

The area where applicants record their referees themselves and follow whether the requests have been answered.

German: Referenzverwaltung · Domain: Selectus

Registration

The wizard a person uses to create their own account. The steps: language, terms of use, New here?, e-mail validation with a validation code, personal data with username and password, additional personal data.

German: Registrierung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Relation role rights

The 22 rights an administration can grant to a relation role or to an organisation role such as line manager. They act in the coaching tool on the assigned people: view, contact, manage accounts, book on behalf.

German: Rechte von Beziehungsrollen · Domain: Roles · Manual

Reminder (Course)

An automatic e-mail set up in a course. It goes to a course member as soon as all of its rules are met, and once per person only.

German: Erinnerung · Domain: Course · Manual

Reminder (Quality management and forms)

An e-mail of a data collection to the respondents: the invitation with the link to the form and up to two reminders to people who have not answered yet. The delivery date is set per data collection.

German: Erinnerung · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Report

The evaluation of a single data collection: the answers and key figures of the form. The tab appears as soon as a report exists. Who may see it is set by role in the tab Berechtigungen Report, optionally with an e-mail on completion.

German: Report · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Reporting

The area in Selectus for the statistical evaluation of closed calls. A call in the status Reporting is only accessible here; the staff completes the data for the statistics and produces the Excel report of the procedure.

German: Reporting · Domain: Selectus

Reports (Coaching)

The area of the coaching site where authorised roles produce Excel files about the coached persons from report templates, for example about issued certificates, absences or open booking orders. It evaluates the operation, not single learners.

German: Reports · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Reports (Course Planner)

The area of the Course Planner with ready-made analyses of the booking orders, produced as Excel files from report templates. It is available in the overview for all implementations and as a tab on every product and every implementation for their own.

German: Reports · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Reports (Platform)

The Administration section with system-wide evaluations: Certificates, Questions in tests and Course memberships. It searches the whole system and delivers the results as a table or an Excel file.

German: Reports · Domain: Platform · Manual

Report templates

A predefined query a report is produced from, with name, category, description and type. OpenOlat ships seven templates in the categories absences, booking orders and certificates; only those the role is authorised for are shown.

German: Reportvorlagen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

Reprints up to 5 publications

Up to five publications in full text that the applicant picks themselves as their most important.

German: Sonderdrucke von bis zu 5 Publikationen · Domain: Selectus

Research statement

The document in which an applicant sets out their research plans for the advertised professorship.

German: Forschungsziel · Domain: Selectus

Resource folder

A learning resource that stores files for several courses in one place. Instead of copying the same file into every course, the courses embed the resource folder.

German: Ressourcenordner · Domain: Course · Manual

Respondent details

A block in the form that asks for or prefills details of the respondent, such as name or e-mail, optional, mandatory or entered automatically. It appears only once per form and removes anonymity.

German: Angaben zur befragten Person · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Responsible for the topic

The group of a topic in the topic assignment that lists the coaches responsible for the topic.

German: Zuständig für dieses Thema · Domain: Course · Manual

REST API

A programming interface following the REST pattern. Third-party systems use it to create accounts, courses and enrolments without going through the interface.

German: REST API · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Results

The evaluation of a test attempt that the candidate sees after submitting or on the test start page. The setting "Overview results" decides how detailed: from the test summary down to question, answer and solution.

German: Resultate · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Return and feedback

The step in which the coaches return the corrected work and their feedback to the participant.

German: Rückgabe und Feedback · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Return box (Course)

The folder in the participant folder element where coaches return files to a participant.

German: Rückgabeordner · Domain: Course · Manual

Return box (Tasks and practice)

The folder inside a task element where coaches return the corrected work to the participant.

German: Rückgabeordner · Domain: Tasks and practice

Review

A structured judgement of an application by a committee member, using a questionnaire of sliders and free text.

German: Review · Domain: Selectus

Review discussion

Comments and replies that committee members can record on a review.

German: Review-Diskussion · Domain: Selectus

Reviewer (Reviewer:in)

Course role. A participant who reviews the work of another in the peer review.

German: Reviewer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Reviewer (Gutachter:in)

Portfolio role. A person the owner of a portfolio binder gives read and comment rights on the binder, a section or an entry. They read and comment but do not assess; that sets them apart from the coach role in the sharing tab.

German: Gutachter:in · Domain: Roles

Review object

The work of another participant that is to be reviewed in the peer review.

German: Review-Objekt · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Review process

The quality process of the question bank. Peers rate a new question with stars; it goes through the statuses Draft, Review, Revision where needed, and Final before it may be used in tests.

German: Beurteilungsprozess · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Review questionnaire

The configurable set of sliders and text fields committee members fill in per application.

German: Review-Fragebogen · Domain: Selectus

Review tool

The area where committee members record their reviews of the applications assigned to them and read the reviews of the others, as far as the visibility allows.

German: Review-Werkzeug · Domain: Selectus

Revision

The step in which the participant revises their solution after feedback and submits it again. It can be run through several times.

German: Überarbeitung · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Role mapping

The mapping of the OpenOlat course roles onto the roles of the LTI tool. It decides who may assess in the external tool and who may only work in it.

German: Rollen-Mapping · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Roles manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It grants and withdraws roles on the accounts of its own organisation.

German: Rollenverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Roll call

The recording of attendance per participant and per unit of an event by the teachers. It can be switched on per course and yields the absences the attendance rate is built from.

German: Anwesenheitskontrolle · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Room

A physical room in a building, with a reference, a number of seats, additional information and an occupancy. Events book it; an inactive room can no longer be booked.

German: Raum · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Room booking

The occupancy of a room by an event, with start, end and an optional buffer before and after. It comes into being when a room is assigned to an event and appears in room scheduling with its warnings.

German: Raumbuchung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Room management

The Room management area in the Course Planner: a read-only view of room scheduling and of the rooms of one's own organisations. Buildings and rooms are not maintained here but in the administration in the Rooms module.

German: Raumverwaltung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Rooms

The module for the physical rooms: buildings, rooms with a number of seats and their booking by events. The administration maintains buildings and rooms, room scheduling shows all bookings; without the module no rooms can be booked on events.

German: Räume · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Room scheduling

The overview of all room bookings, with filters and a calendar view. It reports double bookings, too few seats and inactive rooms as a warning.

German: Raumplanung · Domain: Events and absences · Manual

Room template

A system-wide template for BigBlueButton rooms that is chosen when an online meeting is created. It sets the functions and presets in the room, the number of participants, the duration, the number of simultaneous rooms and the roles that may use it.

German: Raumvorlage · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Rubric (Quality management and forms)

A block in the form that lets several statements be judged on the same scale. It supplies the numbers the analysis works with.

German: Rubrik · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Rubric (Selectus)

A weighted criterion in the decision tool with a name, a type and a weight. The sum of all rubrics gives the value of an application.

German: Rubrik · Domain: Selectus

Rubric assessment

The criteria-based assessment of an element with the help of a rubric. It is switched on at the assessment element and uses a rubric form for it.

German: Rubrik-Bewertung · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Rubric form

A form with a rubric that coaches fill in while assessing. It makes the criteria visible and the assessment comparable between several coaches.

German: Rubrik-Formular · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Rule

A criterion that must be met before a reminder goes out, for example the enrolment date or the course status. Several rules are always joined with "and".

German: Bedingung · Domain: Course · Manual

S

Safe Exam Browser

The connection to the Safe Exam Browser. The assessment mode requires this browser and thereby locks every other program on the device during the exam.

German: Safe Exam Browser · Domain: Assessment · Manual

Sample solution (Course)

The sample solution of a task, which the coaches only release once the submission deadline has passed.

German: Musterlösung · Domain: Course · Manual

Sample solution (Tasks and practice)

The sample solution of a task, stored as a document. It becomes visible from a set date, for all participants or only for those whose submission was accepted.

German: Musterlösung · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Schedule

The schedule of a project with single events, recurring events and milestones. The events appear in the personal calendar of the members as well.

German: Terminplan · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Scope

The switches above the lists People, Courses and Events / Absences with which a person picks one of their roles: As coach, As course owner, As master coach, As principal, As line manager, As education manager or As role of a user relation. The list then shows only whom they coach in that role.

German: Fokus · Domain: Coaching · Manual

SCORM

The Sharable Content Object Reference Model standard. It packages learning content so that it runs in any learning system and reports progress and points back.

German: SCORM · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

SCORM 1.2 (Course)

A course element that plays a SCORM 1.2 package. The package reports progress and points back, which is why the element is assessable.

German: SCORM 1.2 · Domain: Course · Manual

SCORM 1.2 (Learning resources)

A learning resource in the SCORM 1.2 format. Unlike CP learning content the package reports progress and points back to OpenOlat, which is why it is assessable.

German: SCORM 1.2 · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Screening

The phase in which the appointment committee reads and judges the applications received.

German: Screening · Domain: Selectus

Secretary

Selectus role. Supports the appointment committee administratively and prepares the correspondence.

German: Sekretariat · Domain: Roles

Section (ePortfolio)

A chapter of a binder. A section carries a title, a summary, a begin date and an end date, and it holds entries and assignments; there are no subsections. Coaches close a section and assess it with points and passed.

German: Bereich · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Section (Testing and question bank)

A level of structure inside a test part. The section bundles questions into a block and can draw a random selection from it, so that not all candidates get the same questions.

German: Sektion · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Security

The Administration page under Login with the security settings: HTTP headers against embedding in frames, HTTPS downgrade and content type sniffing, SameSite cookie, CSRF protection, Content Security Policy with log and the enabled media servers.

German: Sicherheit · Domain: Platform · Manual

Segment (Learning resources)

A time section of the video with start, duration and a term as its label. Segments do not overlap; the video task lets learners assign the segments to a term.

German: Segment · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Segment (Tasks and practice)

A stretch of the video that holds a situation to be judged. Segments are set in the video editor of the learning resource.

German: Segment · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Selection (course element)

A course element with which participants pick a set number of course elements below it themselves. Only the ones they picked appear in their course menu afterwards. It can only be used in learning path courses.

German: Auswahl · Domain: Course · Manual

Selection (concept)

The choice of a topic by a participant in the topic broker, with a priority. From the selections of all persons OpenOlat calculates the enrolment.

German: Auswahl · Domain: Course · Manual

Selection roles

The roles in the appointment procedure of Selectus, from the administrative staff through the committee to the external experts.

German: Rollen im Auswahlverfahren · Domain: Roles

Selectus

The module for appointment procedures: calls for professorships, recording the online applications and accompanying the appointment committee up to the decision.

German: Selectus · Domain: Selectus

Selectus manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It manages the appointment procedures in Selectus: calls, committees and templates of its own organisation.

German: Selectusverwalter:in · Domain: Roles

Self evaluation

The evaluation the owning person gives on their own assignment. It is possible with every form; whether invitees see it is set by the assignment, and only after their own external evaluation.

German: Selbsteinschätzung · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Self-registration

The module a person uses to create an account themselves on the login page, without user management creating it. The administration sets the home organisation, the permitted e-mail domains, the mandatory fields and whether the account is active at once or pending.

German: Selbstregistrierung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Self-test (Course)

A course element that embeds a test learning resource for self-checking. The result does not feed into the course assessment and cannot be seen by the coaches.

German: Selbsttest · Domain: Course · Manual

Self-test (Testing and question bank)

The course element that embeds a test learning resource for self-checking. The result does not feed into the course assessment, the results are stored anonymised, and the number of runs is unlimited.

German: Selbsttest · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Sent reminder

The log entry for a reminder that actually went out, with recipient, send time and status. It is what prevents a second delivery to the same person.

German: Versendete Erinnerung · Domain: Course · Manual

Separator

A horizontal line that separates two sections of a page.

German: Separator · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Shared by me

The list of the person's own binders that they have shared with others. It shows who may access which binder and leads to the binder's access control to change rights.

German: Von mir freigegeben · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Shared with me

The list of binders and entries other people have shared with the logged-in person. Coaches find their learners' binders here in the tabs Favorites, Entries / To do and Binders and comment on, assess or close them.

German: An mich freigegeben · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Shares (Content and media)

Sharing a medium of the Media Center with other people, groups, courses or organisations, optionally with the right to edit it.

German: Freigaben · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Shares (Testing and question bank)

Sharing questions of the question bank with a group or a pool. It decides who sees a question and may take it into their own tests.

German: Freigaben · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Sharing

The tab of a binder in which the owning person grants access rights. They choose course participants, course coaches, course owners or invite external persons by e-mail, set the shared sections and entries and the level: read, comment, assess. Without a share even course coaches do not see a binder collected from the course.

German: Freigabe · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Shibboleth

The connection to a Shibboleth federation. Signing in happens at the home institution, and OpenOlat only receives the released attributes.

German: Shibboleth · Domain: Platform

Simple mode

The view of the visibility and access tabs with predefined check boxes: blocked for learners, depending on date, group or assessment, only in assessment mode.

German: Einfacher Modus · Domain: Course · Manual

Single choice (Quality management and forms)

A question in the form with several answers of which exactly one can be chosen.

German: Einzelauswahl · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Single choice (Testing and question bank)

A question type with several answer options, of which exactly one can be chosen and exactly one is right.

German: Single Choice · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Sites

The Administration page that manages the tabs of the main navigation: order, enabled, access per site and an alternative when access is denied. Plus the configuration of the info pages 1 to 4 and the external sites 1 and 2.

German: Sites · Domain: Platform · Manual

SMS reminders

Reminders as a text message instead of an e-mail. They depend on an SMS provider and are switched on separately in the administration.

German: SMS Erinnerungen · Domain: Course

Sponsor / Client

A role in the project for the commissioning party. It reads the state of the project but has no access to the objects in it.

German: Sponsor:in / Auftraggeber:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Staff

Selectus role. The administrative body that creates calls, manages the applications and handles the correspondence.

German: Sachbearbeitung · Domain: Roles

Steering committee

A role in the project for oversight. It reads the state of the project but has no access to the objects in it and does not work in it.

German: Lenkungsausschuss · Domain: Roles · Manual

Storage folder

The file area of a course where the files of the course sit. Participants do not see it; they reach the files only through the course elements.

German: Ablageordner · Domain: Course · Manual

Storage usage

The evaluation in the course administration that shows per folder and course element how much storage a course occupies, with the filters Internal with quota, Internal without quota and External.

German: Speicherverbrauch · Domain: Platform

Structure

A course element that structures the course menu into chapters. It combines the assessments of the elements below it into one overall assessment.

German: Struktur · Domain: Course · Manual

Submission

The step in which the participant uploads their solution or writes it straight in the browser. After the submission date no submission is possible any more.

German: Abgabe · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Subscription

Signing up to changes on an object. OpenOlat collects the changes and sends them bundled as an e-mail to the subscriber.

German: Abonnement · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Subtitles

A subtitle track for the video, one WebVTT file per language. OpenOlat can also generate them itself.

German: Untertitel · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Suggestion for improvement

A suggestion for improvement that a person submits about a course or an offering. Unlike a data collection it starts from the person submitting it and not from a survey.

German: Verbesserungsvorschlag · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Supervisor chat

A chat during an exam. Candidates ask their questions in it, the supervisor answers.

German: Betreuer:innen-Chat · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Surgical expertise

Evidence of an applicant's surgical experience, with the kind and the number of operations. It is required for surgical professorships.

German: Chirurgische Expertise · Domain: Selectus

Survey

A course element that embeds a form learning resource as a survey. The answers are analysed anonymously.

German: Umfrage · Domain: Course · Manual

Switch edu-ID

The connection to Switch edu-ID, the Swiss higher education identity. It stays with a person across changes of institution.

German: Switch edu-ID · Domain: Platform

System

The Administration section for operations: system information, info messages, user sessions, errors, caches, locks, database ORM, Java VM infos and scheduler.

German: System · Domain: Platform · Manual

System administrator

System role. A system role. It opens the Administration area and thereby the system configuration. It grants no rights on objects: without an additional organisation role a system administrator sees neither courses nor accounts.

German: Systemadministrator:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

System roles

The three roles that apply to the whole system and belong to no organisation: system administrator, group manager, question bank manager. The last two only because groups and the question bank are not assigned to an organisation so far.

German: Systemrollen · Domain: Roles

System settings (area)

The page in the personal menu with the preferences of an account, in the tabs System, WebDAV, Instant Messaging, Terms of use, User data and GUI preferences.

German: Einstellungen · Domain: Platform · Manual

System settings (concept)

The preferences of an account in the System tab of the settings: language, e-mail notification, character set for downloads, document editor, session resume and the personal landing page. In user management the tab of the same name shows and changes them.

German: Systemeinstellungen · Domain: Platform · Manual

T

Table

A table, entered directly on the page.

German: Tabelle · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Table of contents

A list built from the titles of the page, which grows with them.

German: Inhaltsverzeichnis · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Tags

A freely assigned keyword on an object that lists can be filtered by. Media in the Media Center, projects, to-dos, blog and podcast entries and badges carry tags; the service behind them is the same for all.

German: Tags · Domain: Platform

Task

The course element for a task workflow with configurable steps: assign the task, submit the solution, revise it, assess it and release the sample solution. Every participant works on their own.

German: Aufgabe · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Taxonomy

A hierarchical tree of terms that learning resources, questions, documents and competences are classified with. It is not Bloom's taxonomy of learning objectives.

German: Taxonomie · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Taxonomy level

A node in a taxonomy. It classifies learning resources, questions and documents and can be used as a competence.

German: Taxonomieebene · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Taxonomy Matching (Embeddings)

The AI feature that assigns a text to the right taxonomy level using an embedding model. It suggests a placement instead of leaving it to be searched for by hand.

German: Taxonomie-Zuordnung (Embeddings) · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Teacher

Course role. A person who holds an event. They record the attendance and close the event. The role belongs to the event and not to the course.

German: Dozent:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

Teaching assessment

Evidence of the quality of the teaching done so far, for example results of teaching evaluations.

German: Lehrbeurteilung · Domain: Selectus

Teaching statement

The document in which an applicant sets out their understanding of teaching and the teaching they plan to do.

German: Lehransatz · Domain: Selectus

Template (Evidence)

An image in SVG or PNG the wizard creates a badge class from. The template can hold colours and text to adapt and belongs to a category. The administration maintains the templates under e-Assessment; a default set is shipped.

German: Vorlage · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Template (ePortfolio)

A document or form in the template folder of a binder from which users create a new entry. The template folder is a setting of the portfolio template; if it is mandatory, new entries come only from a template.

German: Vorlage · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Term (Learning resources)

An entry in the glossary: the word that is explained, with its definition, its synonyms and its flections. In the course every term is highlighted in the text.

German: Begriff · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Term (Tasks and practice)

A term participants assign to a segment. The terms form the grid the video is observed by.

German: Begriff · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Terms of use (Platform)

The conditions a person has to accept before using the platform or a course. They can be set system-wide and per course.

German: Nutzungsbedingungen · Domain: Platform · Manual

Terms of use (Quality management and forms)

A text in the form the respondent must agree to before they can submit the form.

German: Nutzungsbedingungen · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Test (Learning resources)

A learning resource with questions in the QTI 2.1 format that measures knowledge. It is embedded into a course through the test or self-test course element and can take questions from the question pool.

German: Test · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Test (Testing and question bank)

The course element that embeds a test learning resource into the course. The result counts towards the course assessment.

German: Test · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Test part

The top level of structure of a test. A test part bundles sections and sets for all of them together whether the candidate may go back and change answers.

German: Test-Part · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Test (QTI 1.2 - no longer supported)

Legacy: a test learning resource in the QTI 1.2 format. Since release 15.0 it no longer runs, since 16.0 it can no longer be converted. It can neither be created nor imported and appears only in lists of old entries.

German: Test (QTI 1.2 - nicht mehr unterstützt) · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Test receipt

A digitally signed confirmation of a completed test attempt. It proves later what was submitted at what time.

German: Testquittung · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Test run

One person's run through a test, from the first question to the submission. It holds the answers, the duration and the points.

German: Testversuch · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Test Statistics

The analysis of a test that has been taken: figures per question, discrimination index, difficulty and the distribution of the results.

German: Test Statistiken · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Text

A block of text with the full formatting toolbar. The most common content element of a page.

German: Text · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Text block

An input field in the form for a freely worded answer, single-line or multi-line, optionally restricted to a number or a date.

German: Textblock · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Thread

A line of discussion in a forum. It starts with an opening post that further posts reply to.

German: Diskussionsthema · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Timeline (Collaboration)

The chronological overview of everything that has happened in the project. It shows events, decisions, notes and files in one strand.

German: Timeline · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Timeline (ePortfolio)

The graphical overview of the activities under My entries. Coloured dots show when an entry was edited and which status it has; administration can switch the timeline off.

German: Zeitstrahl · Domain: ePortfolio · Manual

Timeline (Learning resources)

The time axis below the video. It shows every event in its place: chapter, annotation, comment, quiz and segment.

German: Timeline · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Time period

A centrally maintained, named period such as a semester or a quarter that a course can choose as its implementation period. It serves filtering and sorting in the authoring area and in the Course Planner lists.

German: Zeitabschnitt · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Timetable

All the events of an implementation put together into one plan, with rooms and coaches.

German: Stundenplan · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

Title

A heading on the page, in one of six levels.

German: Titel · Domain: Content and media · Manual

To-do (Course Planner)

An open item on an element of the Course Planner, with a responsible person and a deadline. It keeps the planning work on the object instead of in a separate list.

German: To-do · Domain: Course Planner · Manual

To-do (Platform)

An open item with a due date, a responsible person and a status. To-dos come into being personally, in a course, in a project or from a measure of quality management, and they come together in one list.

German: To-do · Domain: Platform · Manual

Tool

The external application connected through LTI.

German: Tool · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Topic

A selectable topic in the topic broker, with a title, a description, a minimum and maximum number of participants, an optional execution period and a group restriction. Participants pick several topics and rank them by priority.

German: Thema · Domain: Course · Manual

Topic assignment

A course element for advertising, assigning and supervising topics. Coaches advertise topics, participants apply for them and the coaches hand out the places.

German: Themenvergabe · Domain: Course · Manual

Topic broker

A course element participants use to sign up for working on particular topics themselves.

German: Themenbörse · Domain: Course · Manual

Transaction

A single movement on the credit point account: credit, debit, removal, reversal or expiration. The balance is the sum of all transactions.

German: Transaktion · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment

Transcoding

The conversion of an uploaded video file into several resolutions, so that playback matches the connection. It runs in the background.

German: Transkodierung · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Trash (Course)

The area deleted learning resources are moved to first. From there they can be restored, until they are deleted for good.

German: Papierkorb · Domain: Course · Manual

Trash (Platform)

The trash of a folder. Deleted files and subfolders land there first and can be restored; after 30 days the system deletes them for good. The administration sets the period or switches the automatic deletion off.

German: Papierkorb · Domain: Platform · Manual

Trash (ePortfolio)

The place for a person's deleted binders and entries in Portfolio 2.0. From there they can be restored or deleted for good.

German: Papierkorb · Domain: ePortfolio

Trend details

The development of a value across several collections. It shows whether a measure has worked.

German: Trend Detail · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

True/false

A question type like Kprim but with any number of rows. Per statement the candidate chooses between unanswered, true and false.

German: True/false · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

U

Unpublished changes

Changes in the course editor that are not published yet and that the participants therefore do not see.

German: Nicht publizierte Änderungen · Domain: Course · Manual

Upload file (Quality management and forms)

A field in the form through which the respondent hands in a file. The author sets the permitted file types and the maximum size.

German: Datei hochladen · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Upload file (Testing and question bank)

A question type in which the candidate uploads one or more files as the answer. It has to be assessed manually.

German: Datei hochladen · Domain: Testing and question bank · Manual

Usage log

The record of all AI calls of an installation with the feature, provider, model, status, duration and tokens. It is the basis for cost control and for answering what the AI was used for. It can be analysed by time range and exported as an Excel file.

German: Nutzungsprotokoll · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

User (Platform)

The human behind an account. The term stands wherever the person is meant and not their technical access.

German: Person · Domain: Platform

User (Roles)

Organisation role. The base role of every account, also called the home base. It sets what a person sees at all: the accounts of their home base and the courses with an offer for their home base. It is not administrative and is not inherited by sub-organisations.

German: Benutzer:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

User management

The area for creating, searching, editing, importing and deleting accounts and for granting the roles.

German: Kontoverwaltung · Domain: Platform · Manual

User manager

Organisation role. An administrative organisation role. It manages the accounts of its own organisation: create, edit, import, block and delete.

German: Benutzerverwalter:in · Domain: Roles · Manual

User Properties

The fields of an account such as first name, e-mail or institution. The administration decides per property and per usage context whether it is used, whether it is mandatory, whether only administrators see it and whether the person may change it themselves.

German: Benutzer:innen-Attribute · Domain: Platform · Manual

User relations

The people list in Coaching for a relation role, such as mentor to mentee: it shows the persons to whom the signed-in person holds this relation as source, and allows what the role's rights grant.

German: Personenbeziehungen · Domain: Coaching · Manual

User search

The search form of the coaching site that finds a coached person by name, username or further attributes. Without input it returns the whole list of coached persons.

German: Personensuche · Domain: Coaching · Manual

User sessions

The Administration page under System that shows the signed-in sessions and ends them one by one or all at once. The Configuration tab holds the session timeout, the maximum number of sessions and the block on new logins.

German: Aktive Sitzungen · Domain: Platform · Manual

User tools

The personal tools of a person, reachable everywhere: notes, subscriptions, settings and the like. Which of them are available is configured by the administration.

German: Persönliche Werkzeuge · Domain: Platform · Manual

V

VAT

The value added tax on a paid offer. The rate is set system-wide and shown on the invoice.

German: Mehrwertsteuer · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Verification

The check whether a badge is genuine and comes from this instance. Every badge class fixes the method at creation: Hosted fetches the data from the OpenOlat address, Signed checks a digital signature. The administration uploads a badge file for this.

German: Verifizierung · Domain: Evidence · Manual

Versioning

The module that keeps earlier versions of a file in folders. The administration sets the number of versions, from 2 to 50 or unlimited; every version can be restored or deleted. Switched off by default.

German: Versionierung · Domain: Platform · Manual

Video (Content and media)

A video on a page, either as a file from the Media Center or through a URL from YouTube or Vimeo.

German: Video · Domain: Content and media · Manual

Video (Course)

A course element that plays a video learning resource, together with the elements added in OpenOlat such as quiz questions, comments, segments and annotations.

German: Video · Domain: Course · Manual

Video (Learning resources)

A learning resource for a video file in mp4 format, extended with chapters, quiz questions, comments, segments and annotations. OpenOlat converts the file into several resolutions.

German: Video · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Video Collection

The overview of the video learning resources a person has access to.

German: Video Collection · Domain: Platform · Manual

Video editor

The working surface of the video learning resource. Chapters, annotations, comments, quiz questions and segments are made here, all tied to a point in time in the video.

German: Video-Editor · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Video live stream

A course element that shows up to two live streams in a set time window, single or side by side. The administration sets up the stream addresses as URL templates.

German: Video Livestream · Domain: Course · Manual

Video task (Course)

A course element in which participants mark places in a video and assign categories to them. It serves the observation and judgement of situations in the video.

German: Videoaufgabe · Domain: Course · Manual

Video task (Tasks and practice)

A course element in which participants mark places in a video and assign terms to them. It serves the observation and judgement of situations, for example in teacher training or in nursing.

German: Videoaufgabe · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

Virtual classroom

A room for a session in real time, with video, audio, a shared screen and a recording. OpenOlat does not provide it itself but embeds a third-party system.

German: Virtuelles Klassenzimmer · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Vision model

A model that can read images. The image description generator needs it, because a pure language model does not see an image.

German: Vision Modell · Domain: Artificial intelligence · Manual

Visiting card

The publicly visible page of a person with the entries they have released themselves.

German: Visitenkarte · Domain: Platform · Manual

vitero (Course)

A course element that embeds booked vitero team rooms into the course.

German: vitero · Domain: Course · Manual

vitero (Integrations and standards)

The connection to the web conferencing system vitero with booked team rooms.

German: vitero · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

W

Waiting list

The queue of people who wanted to book a course or enter a group when no place was left. When a place opens up, the first person moves up, on request on its own.

German: Warteliste · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

Web catalog

The mirror of the catalog outside the login: people without an account see offers, prices and free places and are led through registration only when they book. It requires a catalog 2.0 and is switched on in the administration.

German: Web-Katalog · Domain: Catalogue, booking and payment · Manual

WebDAV

A separate password for file access through WebDAV. It is kept apart from the sign-in password, because WebDAV programs store the password permanently.

German: WebDAV · Domain: Platform · Manual

Whiteboard

A shared drawing surface in the project that several people work on at the same time. It is based on draw.io.

German: Whiteboard · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

White list

The list of courses or implementations a generator restricts its rule to: data collections are created only for cases the rule covers and that are on the list. It is the counterpart of the black list.

German: Positivliste · Domain: Quality management and forms · Manual

Widget

A tile on a dashboard that shows one slice: implementations, offers, members, courses, events or to-dos. The administration sets the active widgets as the system default; every person adapts them for themselves.

German: Widget · Domain: Platform · Manual

Wiki (Collaboration)

An area for pages that several people write together and link to each other. Every change is versioned and can be undone.

German: Wiki · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Wiki (Course)

A course element that embeds a wiki learning resource into the course so that participants write content together.

German: Wiki · Domain: Course · Manual

Wiki (Learning resources)

A learning resource for pages that several people write together and link to each other. Every change is versioned.

German: Wiki · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Wiki page

A single page inside a wiki. It comes into being as soon as a link to a name that does not exist yet is created.

German: Wiki-Seite · Domain: Collaboration · Manual

Word

A learning resource for a Word document. It can be edited in the browser when ONLYOFFICE or Microsoft 365 is connected.

German: Word · Domain: Learning resources · Manual

Workflow

The sequence of steps a task goes through. Every step can be switched on individually, so that everything from a plain submission to the full run with revision and peer review is possible.

German: Workflow · Domain: Tasks and practice · Manual

X

X (Twitter)

The connection to X, formerly Twitter, for signing in with the X account through OAuth.

German: X (Twitter) · Domain: Platform · Manual

Y

YouTube API

The connection to the YouTube programming interface through an API key. When a YouTube video is embedded it fetches the title, the description, the licence, the duration and the thumbnail.

German: YouTube API · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Z

Zoom (Course)

A course element that embeds a Zoom meeting into the course through LTI. Participants join from inside the course.

German: Zoom · Domain: Course · Manual

Zoom (Integrations and standards)

The connection to Zoom through LTI 1.3 and the Zoom LTI Pro app. Zoom meetings are available as a course element, a course tool and a group tool; the connection to the Zoom account is a Zoom profile. A Zoom Education or Enterprise licence is a prerequisite.

German: Zoom · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual

Zoom profile

The connection from OpenOlat to a Zoom account through a Zoom LTI Pro credential. A profile carries the LTI key from Zoom; OpenOlat produces the client ID and the access token for it, which are entered in Zoom. Several profiles are possible.

German: Zoom-Profil · Domain: Integrations and standards · Manual