OpenOlat
The platform
Since 2009, the teaching-learning platform Olat has been used at UHH. Originally, Olat was developed at the University of Zurich as OpenSource and various Olat distributions were subsequently created. UHH currently uses OpenOlat.
AGORA's big brother: the learning management system OpenOlat for complex teaching-learning scenarios: While AGORA with its intuitive user interface is more suitable for flat hierarchical collaborative use, OpenOlat can be used to implement more advanced forms of teaching-learning scenarios. For example, the organization and correction of smaller, regular performance reviews - as is common in language teaching or philosophy, for example - can be handled comparatively easily and time-efficiently with the OpenOlat functions (see also below).
OnlyOffice is also integrated in OpenOlat, which allows the joint simultaneous editing of documents such as WORD files. A corresponding HelpCard for this extension can be found on the HUL-DLL-Teams website (in german). |
Course Template and Tutorial
For an introduction to OpenOlat, our team has created a course template and equipped it with course elements that have successfully worked in courses we have supported. For illustration purposes, the “eBüro GW course template” has been filled with possible description texts and sample materials. We recommend especially (but not only) OpenOlat beginners to use this course template as a starting point for your own OpenOlat course. To use it, please create a course as a copy of the template as described in the video. You will also find templates that already have material containers and the basic building block of an exam prepared. For support we offer you:
- a video tutorial (in german), in which the course creation in OpenOlat is explained, and
- a Handout (PDF, 2020), explaining step by step how to use the course template to create your own OpenOlat course (in german).
- You can always find news in our OpenOLAT forum for teachers “Treffpunkt der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften zum Thema OpenOlat“ (in german).
More information
- Video tutorials on L2Go to OpenOlat, now more than two dozen, created by Paul Borsdorf (WiSo faculty) (in german).
- HelpCards from the DLL-HUL team (in german).
- eNetwork website: Further information about OpenOlat including FAQ list (in german).
- News feed with announcements and useful tips from the DLL-HUL team (in german).
- Exchange on the design of online teaching at UHH (open to all teachers) (in german).
- Sample self-test with all question types, open to all users (in german).
- Explanatory videos (external link) from the developer Frentix about OpenOlat on YouTube (in german).
Central OpenOlat consultation
In addition to our service, the CMR team offers a digital OpenOlat consultation hour. This service is aimed at UHH teachers and offers individual advice on questions regarding the implementation of teaching concepts. You can find all information about the registration on the pages of the CMR (in german).