Documentation
OLAT Overview of Functions
This paper explains the most important features of OLAT. 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.
- OLAT Functional Survey (1.3MB): Overview of OLAT functions
- OLAT Funktionsübersicht (1.7MB): Übersicht der OLAT Funktionen
OLAT Factsheet
This paper is dedicated to authors who want to get a quick introduction into OLAT.
- OLAT Factsheet (1.8MB): OLAT Factsheet für Dozierende (in German)
Movie: How to create a course in OLAT?
Please note that there is no sound in this 10 minute movie and the written comments are in German.
Movie: Introduction to OLAT for students
There is an introduction movie for students but only avalaible in German.
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 7.1 manual
Please note, as there where no changes since OLAT 7.1, we didn't updated and/or renamed
the manual! So, The 7.1 version is the one to work with!
You can 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.
- OLAT 7.1 User Manual (Online Version) (1.4MB): English
- OLAT 7.1 User Manual (Print Version) (1.4MB): English
- OLAT 7.1 Benutzerhandbuch (Bildschirmversion) (1.4MB): German
- OLAT 7.1 Benutzerhandbuch (Druckversion) (1.4MB): German
- OLAT 7.1 Manuel d'utilisation (Online Version) (1.4MB): French
- OLAT 7.1 Manuel d'utilisation (Print Version) (1.4MB): French
- OLAT 7.1 Manuale d'uso (Online Version) (1.4MB): Italian
- OLAT 7.1 Manuale d'uso (Print Version) (1.4MB): Italian
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:
- OLAT 6 Short Manual in Vietnamese (1.2MB): By TU Dresden
User Activity Logging and Statistics in OLAT
The user activity logging infrastructure changed substantially in the 6.3 and 7.0 release. This documentation describes the new infrastructure as well as the newly added statistics.
- Logging and Statistics in OLAT: Multiple pages
- Logging and Statistics in OLAT (140kB): Multiple pages
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. To download it or to find developers manuals go to 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.
