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OLAT Overview of Functions

This paper explains the most important features of OLAT 5. It is meant for decision makers who need to get a quick overview of the functionality offered by OLAT. This paper does also contain some screenshots of OLAT.

Movie: How to create a course in OLAT?

Please note that there is no sound in this movie but the written comments are in German. The total lenght is 10 minutes.

OLAT User Manual / Online Help

The comprehensive OLAT manual covers authoring of courses and other advanced features. It serves also as general help for users. The same manual is also implemented in each installed OLAT as an online course.

OLAT has also an integrated context-sensitive help. Throughout OLAT you will find a little question mark that gives you an explanation about the topic you are currently looking at. Currently this context-sensitive help is available in German, Italian, English, French and other languages. Translating the help or manual into other languages is very welcomed.

Official OLAT 6.3 manual

We rewrote the OLAT user manual for OLAT 6.3! You can now download the user manual as a PDF (online and print version). These documents are available for German, English, French and Italian. For other languages check the next section where we present translations by the community.

Please note that the user manual refers to the main OLAT installation at the University of Zurich. If you want to translate the OLAT manual for your installation please contact info@olat.org.

Manuals translated by the community

We appreciate the fact that our active community helps translating the OLAT manual in various languages. The list below is updated on a regular basis:

User Activity Logging and Statistics in OLAT

The user activity logging infrastructure changed substantially in the 6.3 release. This documentation describes the new infrastructure as well as the newly added statistics.

Installation Documentation

The technical documentation explains the installation process and gives you hints on how to customize your OLAT installation. This documentation is only available in English and updated frequently. The single-page version is identical to the multiple-pages version but rendered as one big HTML page for better searching and printing. Many thanks to all those developers who contributed to OLAT's technical documentation! Special thanks go to the MELS development team who wrote most of the documentation. More technical manuals and information can be found in the Development section.

OLAT Translation Tool

Contact Marion Weber if you'd like to help translating OLAT. How to use the translation tool and set up a new language in your own OLAT installation is described in "Understanding the Internationalization (I18n) and Translation System" on our translations-page.

External Documentation

E-Learning Center (ELC), University of Zurich

The ELC at the University of Zurich created an OLAT Factsheet PDF in German that describes the most important building blocks.

frentix GmbH

frentix has many documents available for download and other overall information about the OLAT LMS:

BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH

BPS hosts an OLAT Wiki on their termOPAL server that is used by the development team for specifications and discussions that are not hosted in the OLAT bug and issue tracking system JIRA.

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