OLAT Online Learning and Training

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Marion Weber, University of [email protected]

OLATOnline Learning and Training

November 29, 2007

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OLAT

• History

• Users

• Shibboleth

• Examples

• Miscellaneous

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History

• 1999 Department of InformaticsPHP-Tool to facilitate management and support oflarge groups of students

• 2000 MEDIDA-Prix

• 2001 Integration into IT-Services

• 2002 “Rebuild-Project” goalenterprise-sized LMS

• 2004 Strategic LMS of the University ofZurich (UZH)

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Users

• OLAT UZH (as of November 26, 2007)

- 36‘820 registered usersincluding other AAI (9‘600) and VHO (2‘690)

- 1‘530 course authors- more than 1’000 courses- ca. 6‘000 unique logins per day- 600 concurrent users (max. 902)

• Other OLAT instances- Bildungsportal Sachsen (14 universities, 80‘000 users)- various institutions and IT service providers throughout the world

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Users world-wide

• Top ranking at UNESCO

• www.olat.org:ca. 20 Source-code downloads per day

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OLAT Languages

Languages

UZH:

- German- English- French- Italian- Spanish

Communitytranslated:- Albanian- Chineese (simp)- Czech- Danish- Farsi- Greek- Lithuanian- Polish- Portuguese (br)- Russian

In translation:- Afrikaans- Arabic- Chineese (trad)- Hebrew- Hungarian- Indonesian (Bahasa)- Rumantsch- Turkish

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Shibboleth (1)

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Source: http://www.switch.ch/aai/demo/medium.html

OLAT includes WAYF Service.

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Shibboleth (2)

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OLAT includes WAYF Service.

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AAI-Attributes

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AAI-Attributes visible as long as a user is logged in.

By the way: OLAT users exist independent of Shibboleth Login.

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Expert Mode - GUI (1)

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On each course element visibility and access can be restricted.

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AAI-Attributes - Help

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Help provided to OLAT course authors.

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Expert Rules - Example

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Only course administrators and students studying human medicine can access a course.

Course administrators, students studying human medicineand dentistry can access a course.

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Expert Mode - GUI (2)

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Future prospects: Setting restrictions will be much easier.

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Announcement

OLAT-Conference at the University of Zurich

March 26 to 28, 2008

www.olat.org/conference

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Links

OLAT Open Sourcewww.olat.orgdemo.olat.org

OLAT UZHwww.olat.uzh.ch

Spin Offswww.frentix.comwww.goodsolutions.ch

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Discussion

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