2011年3月15日火曜日

OLAT - Your Open Source LMS

http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/index.html

 

Welcome to OLAT (Online Learning And Training), the web-based Learning Management System

OLAT is open source and free of charge

Supports all major standards

Authoring tools for HTML and IMS CP

Flexible and can be used intuitively

Stable and expandable

Extremely flexible course configuration

 

 

General Overview

Open Source (Apache 2 License)

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 IMS CP, IMS LTI, SCORM 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 IMS 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 CSS

Course Elements OLAT Offers

Wiki, Blog and Podcasts

Single pages with integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor (+ jsMath)

Include external pages or sites via tunneling

Both SCORM 1.2 and IMS 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

 

Wikis were one of the new features in OLAT 5

 

The group tab lists all groups a user is subscribed to

 

The OLAT calendar shows personal events along with group and course events

 

eFeed: an e-learning course in OLAT

 

For a more detailed description of the features OLAT offers please refer to the functional survey (also available in German: "OLAT Funktionsubersicht"). Click on the image to see bigger screenshots in the right column.

 

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