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OLAT in 5 minutes (Video)

OLAT was nominated as an IMS Learning Impact Award finalist. Each finalist had the possibility to submit a 5 minute video about their tool. If you're interested in OLAT this video might be a good starting point. Please not that this is not a tutorial. We do have a tutorial video about creating an OLAT course in the documentation section.

Why should I use OLAT?

Thanks for your interest in OLAT

  • It is open source and therefore free of charge
  • The Java based framework can handle over 700 students simultaneously on one standard Linux server. If you install an OLAT-cluster (available since OLAT 6.1) you can serve even more students!
  • Thanks to its simple and intuitive web frontend, users will learn how to work with OLAT in no time
  • OLAT uses cutting edge AJAX/Web 2.0 technology and the layout is based on the CSS framework YAML
  • It is multilingual (UTF8) and offers translations for over 30 languages. The new translation tool 2009 makes OLAT translation simpler than ever!
  • OLAT supports eLearning standards such as termSCORM, termIMS Content Packaging or QTI

See the feature list for more details.

The user's home portal with configurable portletsThe user's home portal with configurable portlets

These facts about OLAT were compiled by the open source network Ohloh.net.

Awards

OLAT won some important awards in the past. The most important ones are certainly:

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