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Welcome to OLAT (Online Learning And Training), the web-based open-source termLearning Management System (LMS) based on Java and completely free of charge.

The development of OLAT started in 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the further development and has a team of 12 developers pushing OLAT to the next level.

NEWS:

OLAT 6.0.6 released!

(20.11.2008) Today OLAT release 6.0.6 (including unplublished 6.0.5 release) was published. The new release contains improvements of the HTML editor, SCORM and IMS CP improvements, support for Java 1.5 and a lot of bugfixes! For a full list of bugfixes and improvements check the release notes. Continue to download section...

OLAT team members participated at Google summit

(05.11.2008) Guido Schnider and Joël Fisler participated at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. The summit took place Saturday and Sunday, 25./26. October 2008, and was held in the spirit of an unconference. It was very interesting to particpate at various spontaneously organized workshops and to talk to and meet some of the 200 mentors from over 150 open source projects that participated at this years GSoC. For pictures check out the Mentor Summit 2008 photos at Flickr and for more information about GSoC 2008 and the upcoming GSoC 2009 visit OLAT GSoC page.

OLAT @ Ohloh.net

(04.11.2008) We added OLAT to the open source network Ohloh.net. So please visit our OLAT@Ohloh.net page and add yourself as an OLAT user (we want to see that "I am using OLAT"-list growing fast!), leave a comment, add yourself to the development team etc. Become active and make us proud :-) Furthermore we added some Ohloh-Widgets throught our website (e.g on the download or on the development page).

OLAT 6.0.5 cancelled, waiting for 6.0.6

(03.11.2008) Due to various reasons the public release of OLAT 6.0.5 (currently only running at UZH) has not been published yet. Since we planned a 6.0.6 for November 18th we will cancel the public release 6.0.5 and you have to wait for 6.0.6. Sorry...

Jobs available at OLAT (University of Zurich)

(06.10.2008) We are currently looking for a Java developer and an E-Learning specialist. Please check the "Jobs@OLAT" box on the right side for more information.

OLAT wins the Swiss(ness) Open Source Award 2008!

(29.09.2008) At last weeks Open Expo in Winterthur OLAT received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the category "Swissness". According to the jury members OLAT is one the biggest Swiss E-Learning projects. We are very happy to have received this open source award and that the jury recognized our nearly 10 years of hard work. The prize was a golden keyboard together with CHF 1600.-. Check the Swiss Open Source Award Website for more information or read the article published in the PCTipp or Linux Magazine.

OLAT 6.0.4 released!

(12.09.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0.4 today. The release 6.0.4 contains as usual many bugfixes. But we also implemented some improvements: Better print support, optimized calendar portlet and some security issues were fixed. Continue to download section...

Video-Streams for GSoC Closing Event available

(10.09.2008) The Google Summer of Code Closing Event took place on September 4th at the University of Zurich. All students (or their mentors) presented their project. We would like to thank everyone for the nice and successful closing event. A reminder: most presentations are in German. You can find the video of the presentations and photos of the social event that followed on the OLAT GSoC page.

So what has been accomplished in GSoC 2008? OLAT 6.1.x release will contain the results of the Calendar project (Udit Sajjanhar) and also the LDAP end result (Maurus Rohrer). Also ready for publication are the two eLML projects "Template Builder" and "DocBook Converter". They will be published in late September 2008. Not yet ready for production are Blog (Thomas Bernhart), CP Editor (Sergio Trentini), Tagging (Marcel Karras), and Clipboard (Mayank Jain). They are very valuable prototypes enhancing the OLAT project and probably ready for release 6.2.

OLAT 6.0.3 released!

(28.08.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0.3 today. This release includes many bugfixes for OLAT 6.0 and the final layout (new icon set etc.) and the updated user manual in four languages. Have a look at the list of chances in the OLAT 6.0.3 release notes. Continue to download section...

Google Summer of Code Closing Event

(27.08.2008) As most of you probably know the OLAT project participated as a mentoring organization at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. GSoC will officially end on September 1st and we will have a public closing event on Thursday, September 4th 2008 from 4 to 6pm (Swiss time). All students will present their projects and talk about their experiences with GSoC and the OLAT mentors. The presentation will be held at the Irchel Campus of the University of Zurich in room Y27-H35/36Y35-F51 (new location!!!) and will be available as videostream afterwards. The GSoC Closing Event is a public event open to everyone (E-Learning staff, students interested in GSoC 2009 etc.) and will be followed by a social event - Barbecue and beer - in the Irchelpark afterwards. Please download the PDF file for more information.

OLAT 6 released today!

(05.06.2008) The OLAT team has released OLAT 6.0 today. This is a major release including new functionality as well as bugfixes. The most important new features of the 6.0 release are listed below. For a full list of changes please refer to the OLAT 6.0 release notes. Many thanks to the OLAT community that helped finding bugs, which helped make this release more stable. The community also did a great job in updating several language translations. Continue to download section...

  • Portlets on HOME are configurable: decide how many entries will be displayed, and in which order.
  • Layout updated including enlarged, new icon set.
  • CSS framework YAML: increased robustness and browser-compatibility of entire layout.
  • Further accessibility improvements: so called Web2.a mode (beta) which allows visually impaired users to swiftly detect parts of the screen that have been changed after the last click.
  • Various chat improvements: e.g. more than one chat conversation possible, chat window remains while browsing through OLAT.
  • OLAT output complies with XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
  • New wizard component, used e.g. in enhanced course publish workflow.
  • Course content is by default rendered in an iframe: increased navigation speed.
  • New plain text editor in OLAT folders: create .txt and .css files instantly - no need to upload.
  • Various SCORM improvements.
  • Custom fields: user attributes are configurable by system administrators, not stored hardcoded.

Polish version of OLAT website

(28.05.2008) Last week Bartek Gajc from Olsztyn (Poland) released a translated version of the olat.org website. You can find the OLAT website in Polish at www.olat.pl! Thanks to Bartek and his GEOMATIKK-team!



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