Module Contact Tracing
With this module, OpenOlat supports contact tracing at the physical locations of an institution.
Wikipedia: " In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying persons who may have come into contact with an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts. "
Overview and practical use
The Contact Tracing module works with the following five steps:
- Locations: capture them one by one or via import
- QR codes: generate them and place them at the locations
- Registration of OpenOlat users or guests at the locations
- Email confirmation after the registration
- Report of the data in case of an official request
OpenOlat stores the data in accordance with data protection regulations and deletes it automatically after the retention period you define.
OOacademy Video (Contact Tracing in Practice, German)
Activation of the module
System administrators open the "Contact tracing" module in the system administration under:
Administration > Modules > Contact tracing
In the tab "Configuration" you activate the module with "Contact tracing enabled" and set the "Retention period" and the "Default duration of stay". In the section "Questionnaire" you define the optional and mandatory fields, in the section "Messages and texts" the texts "Registration intro", "Registration confirmation mail" and "QR code instructions".
As soon as the module is activated, the tabs "Locations" and "Report" appear. In the tab "Locations" you add a single location with "Add location". The dialog "Create new location" contains the same entries as the columns of the template for the import (see below).
Import locations
You capture many locations faster with an Excel list than one by one. In the tab "Locations", click "Import locations". In the step "Insert data", download the template next to the label "Template" via the link "Download Excel template". It contains the header row with the columns in the order the import requires: "Reference", "Title", "Building", "Room", "Sector", "Table", "Seat number", "Guest", "QR ID" and "QR Text". Below are two locations as an example. The column names appear in the language of your user interface. Under "Instructions", "Show sample" opens a completed example.
Enter your locations in the template, copy all rows except the header row and paste them into the field "Locations". In the columns "Seat number" and "Guest", enter "on" for yes or "off" for no. "QR ID" and "QR Text" are optional, you can format the QR Text with HTML. If the column "QR ID" stays empty, OpenOlat generates the ID according to the selection in the field "QR ID": "Generate numeric ID" or "Generate human readable ID".
In the step "Preview locations" you select the locations you import. New locations are preselected. If a location has a QR ID that already exists, the preview marks it with a warning triangle. If you select it, the import updates the existing location.
Further information
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