Plan
Create the course
You create the course and make the one decision that shapes everything else: learning path course or conventional course. The course status tells you which phase the course is in.
Terms of this station
Learning resource
Course
A course is a learning resource, but a special one: it is the only one that keeps members, roles and assessments.
Course in detail
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
What users call it: course, class, training
Setting
Course design
The choice when creating a course between learning path course and conventional course.
Course design in detail
The choice when creating a course between learning path course and conventional course. It decides whether access to the elements is steered through the learning path or through conditions, and can later only be changed by duplicating.
German: Kursdesign
Includes:
Learning path course in detail
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
Not to be confused with Conventional course: The learning path course steers through the learning path and exceptions, the conventional course through conditions.
Conventional course in detail
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
What users call it: classic course
Not to be confused with Learning path course: The learning path course steers through the learning path and exceptions, the conventional course through conditions.
Setting
Course status
The state of a course in its lifecycle: Preparation, Review, Access for coach, Published, Finished, Trash, Deleted.
Course status in detail
The state of a course in its lifecycle: Preparation, Review, Access for coach, Published, Finished, Trash, Deleted. It decides who can enter the course.
German: Kursstatus
Not to be confused: Learning path course and Conventional course
The learning path course steers through the learning path and exceptions, the conventional course through conditions.
Two doors
Try it out
How-to: Create and set up a new course
With frentix: we show you in the training. support@frentix.com
Read up
Deepen once the first course is running
The first course is in place. Now the things that did not matter while building pay off: the terms of this station have parts and settings that control the course more precisely.
- Course: Publication, Course archive, Info page, Course execution and more. All settings are on the page Various Types of Learning Resources.
- Course status: Trash, Access for coach.
Further information
Mentioned on this page
Various Types of Learning Resources >
Course Administration: Overview >
Creating Courses >
Learning path course - Overview >
Access configuration >
How do I create my first OpenOlat course? >
Course editor tools >
Course administration - Archiving & Reports >
Toolbar: Info page >
Learning path course - Course editor >
Further reading
Course Settings >
Glossary >