OLAT

2008年8月12日 (二) 13:31的版本

OLAT - the web-based Open Source Learning Management System (LMS). OLAT is open source, 100% Java and completely free of charge.

OLAT Team http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/website_contact.html

OLAT is participating at Google's Summer of Code program 2008

Install

using the easy installer from http://download.huihoo.com/olat/
cd /Applications/OLAT
./runOlat.sh
http://localhost:8080/olat/
administrator / olat
author / test
learner / test
test/ test
test2 / test
test3 / test

Feature

General Overview

• Open Source (Apache 2 License)
• Java based framework (Brasato) with special Accessibility-mode, HTML based frontend GUI (XHTML 1.0)
• AJAX/Web 2.0 enabled
• Entirely multilingual, UTF8 supported, online translation tool
• Supports standards such as IMS CP, SCORM, QTI etc.
• Server requirements: With OLAT, there is no need for a high-end server!
• 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)
• 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 editor: create your course 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
• Single pages with integrated WYSIWYG HTML editor
• Include external pages or sites via tunneling
• Both termSCORM and termIMS Content Packages
• Forums and "file dialog" element to discuss papers
• Folders for download material
• Tasks with drop box, sample solution and scores
• Tests (with scores) and self-tests (anonymous, no scores) based on QTI standard
• Questionnaire for course evaluations
• Enrollment for groups (by student or tutor or both) with wait lists
• Contact forms for easy communication with group members or tutors

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
• Online translation tool (translator can access our translation tool from anywhere)

More details: http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/about_features.html

Use Projects

• Brasato
• YAML
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Apache Velocity
• Openfire Server for instant messaging integration
• Webalizer for access statistics
• MRTG for memory, running threads and usage statistics

Links

• http://www.olat.org/
• http://bugs.olat.org
• http://demo.olat.org test/test
• http://code.google.com/p/olat/
• http://docs.huihoo.com/olat/
• http://docs.huihoo.com/javadoc/olat/
• http://download.huihoo.com/olat/