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Introduction

What to Expect From this Manual

This user manual helps you to make yourself familiar with OpenOlat while thoroughly explaining it's functionality.

The OpenOlat manual is meant for people interested in e-learning as well as in making use of OpenOlat for various reasons. If you have not worked with OpenOlat (former OLAT) before you will get more information on how to get started with this learning platform step by step which includes searching for predefined learning content, its adaption, as well as the handling of collaborative tools.

Perhaps you were already an experienced OLAT user but now you want to provide others with learning content in OpenOlat. In this case the chapters on learning resources, course elements, course editor and the ones on how to create courses or tests will assist you in your work.

If you were already an OLAT expert this manual will serve as a work of reference. Its table of contents is there to guide you; the PDF version additionally provides an index in order to find what you are looking for as fast as possible.

This is an extended Adaption of the "OLAT 7.1 - User Manual", used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

This manual is financed and maintained by frentix: frentix GmbH

Some rights reserved! This document is copyright protected by the owners and companies listed below under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license. For more information check: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ch/

Responsible people:

  • Sabine Hemsing (Overall), VCRP
  • Mandy Menzel (Overall), frentix
  • Tina Frenzel (Overall), frentix
  • Sabrina Scheiwiler (Overall), frentix
  • Oliver Kant (Technic), frentix
  • Florian Gnägi (Content), frentix
  • Christian Franck (Content), frentix
  • Michael Enz (Migration), frentix
  • Kirsten Scherer Auberson (Overall), frentix
  • Sandra Arnold (Overall), Universität Zürich, MELS
  • Renata Sevcikova (Overall), Universität Zürich, MELS
  • Kristina Isacson (Overall), Universität Zürich, MELS
  • Joël Fisler (Specials), Universität Zürich, MELS
  • Sandra Hübner (Content), Hochschule Furtwangen
  • Christian Meier (Content), TU Dresden

Further Sources of Information

HELP

At the top right of the main menu bar there is always access to the OpenOlat manual (this is where you are currently located) and possibly to further help pages, depending on the configuration by the system administrator. Just click on the question mark.

If the link does not appear it was hidden in the user tools in the personal settings.

While working with OpenOlat you cannot only dispose of this manual but also use OpenOlat's context-sensitive Help. This Help feature explains the options you have regarding OpenOlat's configuration--right where you are at that particular moment, by opening the relevant location in this manual. You will recognize this feature by a question mark icon. Just click on that icon to open the manual in a new window.

In addition to that, you will find 3 more types of assistance mainly in forms, but not restricted to, which will provide you with brief information on single form fields. When locating this icon to the right of a label, a mouseover will display a short information. Here an example of the configuration of a test in the course editor:

Light grey text within a form field

assists you with filling out the field itself, while light grey text underneath a field

provides information about the what's required.

Support

Please contact your local support team.

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