OLAT is a very advanced Learning Management System, allowing admins and webmasters to setup a complete online training tool.
Features:
- General Overview:
- Java based framework (Brasato) with special Accessibility-mode, HTML based frontend GUI (XHTML 1.0) and REST API support
- AJAX/Web 2.0 enabled
- Packaged deployment (WAR) consistent with the Java Web Specification thereby simplifying the rollout of the application
- Entirely multilingual, UTF8 supported, online translation tool
- Supports standards such as termIMS CP, IMS LTI, termSCORM 1.2, QTI 1.2 (built-in editor) and QTI 2.1 (using ONYX plugin)
- Server requirements: With OLAT, there is no need for a high-end server!
- Scalability: Install an OLAT cluster if one server alone does not meet your requirements!
- CSS framework YAML: Increased robustness and browser-compatibility of entire layout.
- Portlets on HOME-tab are configurable
- Users & Groups:
- Unlimited number of accounts
- Different roles
- Various authentication methods
- Administrators can add, modify or delete users
- Personalized authoring and learning environment
- Manage your files via HTTP or WebDAV
- Configure your personal home portal
- Calendar (per course, per group and combined personal calendar), also via ical, notifications (via eMail or RSS)
- Be up-to-date as regards news and changes via e-mail or RSS feed
- Full-text search
- Share resources with other authors (learning resource repository)
- Form your own project groups and invite buddies
- Use discussion forums, file share space, contact forms etc.
- Instant Messenger: See who is online and chat with others using either the integrated chat client (AJAX based) or an external Jabber client
- Authentication Options:
- Users can create their own accounts (with/without approval by administrators)
- Direct login into OLAT with OLAT user name and password
- Access file system via WebDAV login
- Full Shibboleth integration
- Single sign-on e.g. via Switch AAI
- Control access to courses by means of AAI attributes
- Course Management:
- Flexible course system
- Based on termIMS Learning design concepts
- Create a personalized course structure according to your needs
- Course wizard: quickly create simple OLAT courses with just a few mouse clicks
- Course editor: create your course with your own structure using OLAT course elements
- Group management: manage your learners
- Rights management: grant specific users access to course tools
- Assessment tool: assess your learners
- Archive tool: download log files or runtime data and import/export courses
- Create your own course layout using termCSS
- Course Elements OLAT Offers:
- Wiki, Blog and Podcasts
- Single pages with integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor (+ jsMath)
- Include external pages or sites via tunneling
- Both termSCORM 1.2 and termIMS Content Packages (+ CP editor)
- Forums and "file dialog" element to discuss papers
- Folders for download material
- Tasks with drop box, sample solution and scores
- Topic assignment: Distribute and manage projects or bacchelor thesis
- Tests (with scores) and self-tests (anonymous, no scores) based on QTI 1.2 standard or QTI 2.1 using the ONYX plugin
- Questionnaire for course evaluations
- Enrollment for groups (by student or tutor or both) with wait lists
- Contact forms and calendar for easy communication with group members or tutors
- Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (V1.0 Basic LTI Conformance). Have a look at the reults of the Basic LTI Conformance Test.
- Online Help and Documentation:
- Extensive context-sensitive help
- User manual available as HTML or PDF
- Demo courses and course templates
- Comprehensive help, manual, tutorials and discussion forum
- Multilingual:
- Entirely supports UTF8
- Our main translations: German, English, French, Italian and Spanish
- Community translations: Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Polish, Lithuanian, Danish, Greek, Chinese (traditional and simplified) and Farsi (Persian)
- Under development: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian (Bahasa), Rumantsch and Turkish
- The online translation tool has been rebuilt in 2009 and is simpler than ever!
- More information in the translations chapter
What is new in this release:
- Ordered Notifications: can no longer be subscribed and do not send automatic e-mails.
- Messages: Participants will receive a confirmation by e-mail when they upload a file to the drop box or the tutor uploads a sample solution in the return box.
- Confirmations: Participants will receive a confirmation by e-mail when they upload a file to the drop box.
- Activations: The tutor can configure, whether owners and tutors should be informed by e-mail as soon as a participant has successfully completed a test.
What is new in version 7.3.1:
- Fixed issues for example concerning the ePortfolio and the assessment and display of tests or QTI.
- Fixed some topic assignment issues, for example by improving the search for topic authors and notifying them when a topic is deleted.
What is new in version 7.2.1.0:
- Selection of correct answers in tests is back.
- Description is now imported at course import.
- Wiki: Link on opened image leads back to Wiki page.
- Folders with Umlaute can now be used with WebDAV.
- Selenium and jUnit testcases for 7.2.1.
- Peakview for portfolio task added.
- Topic assignment: issue table search results are now remembered.
- Topic assignment: notify topic tutors or authors on deletion of a topic.
What is new in version 7.0:
- Integration of external tools through the IMS Basic LTI interoperability standard
- Implementation of a course wizard with which courses with the most popular elements can be easily created
- Integration of a QTI 2.1 test engine (ONYX plugin)
- Integration of OLAT into existing IT infrastructure with the new REST API (beta)
- Mail attachments in user visiting card, group and course contact form
- Various component improvements: topic assignment, context sensitive help, task, calendar, full-text search, single page, notifications
- Improvements in LDAP module for synchronisation of large LDAP directories and OLAT cluster operatings (operations)
- Browser side caching of course media resources to reduce network load
- Refactoring of depricated forms using "Flexi Form" infrastructure part III
- Packaged deployment (WAR) consistent with the Java Web Specification thereby simplifying the rollout of the application
- Various bugfixes and software upgrades
1 Comments
Florian Gnägi 19 May 15
Please have a look at OpenOLAT, the successor project of the original OLAT:www.openolat.org