Customizing
The "Customizing" menu contains settings relating to the menu items listed here. You will find these settings in the system administration under:
Administration > Customizing
Representation, layout
Section Layout
The system layout, a company logo and properties relating to the footer can be stored here.
The background image of the login page is part of the layout theme and cannot be configured in the system administration. It is customized through an individual theme. For hosted instances, please contact your provider.
Company or Institution Logo Section
You can upload your own logo (PNG file), which will then appear in the top-left corner of the header. Please note that this logo will be used within the theme (overall layout). The OpenOlat logo is displayed by default.
You also define where a click on the logo leads: to the landing page or to a target URL of your choice. In the field for the alternative text, you enter the text that appears in place of the logo.
Footer Properties Section
In this section, you define the text of the footer in the bottom-right corner and the target URL that a click on the footer leads to. Email and web addresses in the text are automatically converted into a clickable link.
Imprint
Administrators determine,
- where the link to the legal notice appears (e.g., in the footer)
- whether a legal notice appears and what it says
- whether a text regarding the terms of use appears in the legal notice and what that text says
- whether a privacy policy appears within the legal notice and what the text says
- whether a contact form for general inquiries should be displayed and, if so, to whom the inquiry will be sent
All text can be entered in different languages.
Help
Here you can specify which help pages are displayed via the help icon in the main menu. You can also include a link to the support contact form.
Language adaptation tool
Individual text elements can be adjusted here if required.
System registration
OpenOlat is open source and needs an active community of users. You too can be part of this community.
Portal
Various portlets can be selected for the "Portal" tab.
Tip
We recommend not using this feature. It has been superseded by numerous modules in OpenOlat and is thus a historical remnant that nevertheless cannot simply be switched off. Thank you for your understanding.
User properties
Administrators can use this feature to select the attributes displayed in user management and assign them to a display group. In addition, the translations can be edited.
Sites
Tab Order
Sites/Sections correspond to the menu items (tabs) in the main menu at the top of the page, e.g. "Courses", "Groups", "Catalog", "Authoring" or "Coaching".
Administrators can specify which OpenOlat areas are displayed there and made available system-wide. The display in the main menu and access to these areas can be restricted to specific permission and role groups. Some entries in the list are named differently from the tab in the main menu, e.g. the entry "My courses" appears in the main menu as the tab "Courses".
Use the arrows on the right side to set the display order.
The "Coaching tool" entry cannot be deactivated , as the Coaching tool is mandatory: the "Enabled" checkbox is greyed out. The display order and the access can still be adjusted.
Other tabs
In the other tabs, you can add custom information pages that can be accessed via the main menu in the header. These can be external URLs as well as OpenOlat learning resources (e.g., courses that may consist of only one or a few pages).
For each language you store a separate title and a separate learning resource. With "Select" you open the search for the referenceable learning resource. There you connect the tab with a course.
