HelpCards

Good to know: There are 3 variants of OpenOlat courses: the conventional course, the learning path, and the course with learning progress. You can find further information in the OpenOlat Help on Course Creation. You can check which format is suitable for your course based on the following...

Good to know: You need authoring rights To be able to create courses, you need authoring rights. If you do not have authoring rights, please contact support. How to proceed: Open the Authoring area (top) The search mask is located in the submenu. Click on the search mask and search for...

Good to know Using the (STiNE) Lecture ID, students are automatically registered as course participants when logging in with their UHH Login and their user ID (e.g., baa1234). The course subsequently appears under My Courses and is also visible in the catalog. Access via the (STiNE) Lecture ID...

Good to know An existing course title is changed in two places: the course editor and the course info page. How to proceed In your course, click on Course editor under Administration. The course editor opens. Check in the course structure on the left that the top course element is selected. ...

Good to know Copy wizard for learning path courses For learning path courses, there is a course copy wizard with which you can copy selected elements into a new course. You can find this in Course administration under Copy with wizard. Further information can be found in the OpenOlat Help on...

Good to know Outdated courses may carry the risk of copyright infringement, cause confusion among students, and clutter the catalog and personal course list. To prevent this, we recommend different procedures for handling old courses depending on the future usage scenario. Scenario 1: Delete...

Good to know Outdated courses regularly cause confusion among students and clutter the catalog and your personal course lists. You can prevent this by finishing courses (see HelpCard - Handling Old Courses) or deleting courses you no longer need. If necessary, you can archive a participant list...

Adding Individual Members With this method, you can add specific individuals to your course. Open the Administration tab in your course and select Member management. You will now see an overview of all course members. Click on the Add member button above the member list. A new window opens. Enter...

Good to know There are various member roles within courses. You can view and manage the distribution of roles in member management.In addition to group coaches and group participants, there are also coaches and participants at the course level.The term members encompasses all persons and their...

Good to know To extend the rights of regular roles ((group) coach, (group) participant), so-called rights groups can be set up and the participants entered there can be equipped with the desired rights. For example, a group of tutors can be given the right to edit member management. How to...

Good to know Communication with participants Member management offers you the possibility to communicate via e-mail with one or more course or group participants. The e-mail is sent to the e-mail address associated with the user account.Students automatically become course participants as soon as...

Good to know With the integration of OnlyOffice as a document editor in OpenOlat, people can work synchronously on a document, chat there, or leave comments. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files can be created and edited, as well as OpenDocument files (extensions .odt, .ods, .odp). The document...

Good to know With the free and open-source software Lumi, you can create interactive learning content and integrate it into OpenOlat, for example. You can use H5P for interactive exercises or for self-assessment of knowledge. Here you can find a video tutorial. How to proceed How to create...

Good to know In OpenOlat, you have the option to integrate Content Packaging learning content, such as our OpenOlat Quick Start. This allows you to provide structured learning content and offer your students a central and constantly updated tutorial. Here you can find a video tutorial. How to...

iFrames offer the possibility to embed content from other websites at a desired location – e.g., embedding a Lecture2Go video in your own course on the learning platform. However, embedding is often prohibited for security reasons and is therefore not available on all platforms or only for certain...

In OpenOlat, it is possible to import lists of examinees into a course. This help card explains how to generate this list and how to add it to the OpenOlat course.   Good to know Via the Campus Management Reporting tool provided by the Computing Center, you can generate a list of examinees for...

This guide shows you how to give participants in your course the option of choosing between different compulsory course elements.