OLAT 6 - User Manual http://www.olat.org - 5.2008 v1.0 @2008 Copyright Some rights reserved! This document is copyright protected by the owners and companies listed below under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license. For more information check: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ch/ Responsible persons: • Sandra Roth (Overall), University of Zurich, MELS, [email protected] • Joel Fisler (Specials), University of Zurich, MELS, [email protected] • Sandra Hübner (Content), Hochschule Furtwangen, [email protected] • Christian Meier (Content), TU Dresden, [email protected] • Sven Morgner (Content), BPS, [email protected] OLAT 6 - User Manual Content 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1. What to Expect From this Manual ............................................................................................... 3 1.2. Manual's Structure ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.3. Further Sources of Information .................................................................................................... 4 2. General Information on this Learning Platform .................................................................................. 6 2.1. Information on OLAT .................................................................................................................. 6 2.2. Requirements when Working with OLAT ................................................................................... 6 2.3. The Idea of Open-Source Software .............................................................................................. 6 2.4. Technology and Navigation ......................................................................................................... 7 2.5. Roles and Rights ........................................................................................................................... 7 3. Registration, Login and Logout .......................................................................................................... 8 3.1. Your First OLAT Registration ..................................................................................................... 8 3.2. Login Page .................................................................................................................................... 8 3.3. Session Timeout and Logout ........................................................................................................ 9 4. Home (Your Personal Homepage), Full-Text Search and Chat ........................................................ 10 4.1. Settings and Menu Entries of Your Home ................................................................................. 10 4.2. Chat ............................................................................................................................................. 12 4.3. Full-Text Search ......................................................................................................................... 12 5. Groups ................................................................................................................................................ 14 5.1. Project Groups ............................................................................................................................ 14 5.2. Learning Groups and Learning Areas ........................................................................................ 15 5.3. Right Groups ............................................................................................................................... 18 6. Learning Resources ........................................................................................................................... 20 6.1. Various Types of Learning Resources ....................................................................................... 20 6.2. How to Find Learning Resources (OLAT User without Author Rights) .................................... 22 6.3. How to Find Learning Resources (OLAT Users with Author Rights) ....................................... 22 6.4. Actions in the Tab 'Learning Resources' .................................................................................... 23 6.5. Detailed View of Learning Resources ....................................................................................... 23 7. Learning Activities in Courses .......................................................................................................... 26 7.1. Working With Course Elements ................................................................................................. 26 7.2. Additional Course Features ........................................................................................................ 31 7.3. Course Problems and Error Messages ........................................................................................ 32 8. Creating a Course .............................................................................................................................. 33 8.1. General Information .................................................................................................................... 33 8.2. Requirements .............................................................................................................................. 33 8.3. Six Steps to Your Course ........................................................................................................... 33 8.4. Additional Settings in the Detailed View ................................................................................... 36 9. Course Elements and Course Editor ................................................................................................. 38 9.1. General Configuration of Course Elements ............................................................................... 38 9.2. Types of Course Elements ......................................................................................................... 40 9.3. Using Editor Tools ..................................................................................................................... 48 9.4. Deleting, Moving and Copying Course Elements ...................................................................... 49 http://www.olat.org - 14.7.2008 1 OLAT 6 - User Manual 10. Creating Tests and Questionnaires .................................................................................................. 50 10.1. General Information .................................................................................................................. 50 10.2. Five Steps to Create a Test, Self-test or Questionnaire ............................................................ 51 10.3. Test and Questionnaire Editor in Detail ................................................................................... 54 10.4. Archiving Results of Tests and Questionnaires ....................................................................... 57 11. Course Operation ............................................................................................................................. 58 11.1. Using Editors During Course Operation .................................................................................. 58 11.2. Using Course Tools .................................................................................................................. 58 11.3. Using Additional Course Features ............................................................................................ 60 11.4. Record of Course Activities ..................................................................................................... 61 12. Supported Technologies .................................................................................................................. 63 12.1. Using WebDAV ........................................................................................................................ 63 12.2. Using External Chat Clients ..................................................................................................... 65 12.3. Using the Reload Editor to Create Content Packagings (CPs) ................................................. 67 12.4. Using ANALOG to Analyze OLAT Log Files ........................................................................ 70 12.5. Integration of Multimedia Files in Tests and Questionnaires ................................................... 71 Index ....................................................................................................................................................... 74 http://www.olat.org - 14.7.2008 2 OLAT 6 - User Manual 1. Introduction 1.1. What to Expect From this Manual This user manual helps you to make yourself familiar with OLAT while thoroughly explaining OLAT's functionality. The OLAT manual is meant for people interested in e-learning as well as in making use of OLAT for various reasons. If you have not worked with OLAT before you will get more information on how to get started with this learning platform step by step which includes searching for predefined learning content, its adaption, as well as the handling of collaborative tools. Perhaps you are already an experienced OLAT user but now you want to provide others with learning content