3.4. Step 3 - Creating a Course

Your didactic course concept can now be put into effect. Step 1 was meant to create a test or questionnaire, step 2 dealt with the creation of learning contents and with their storage in learning resources. In order to put together an entire course OLAT provides you with the means of a course editor. This editor offers various course elements that can be adapted according to your needs. Those course elements can be combined in number and order as you wish. The configuration of each course element enables you to limit the access or visibility for every single user group. Detailed remarks regarding course editor or course elements can be found at Kapitel 6. OLAT Reference.

In order to create a course you need:

- the course element "Single page" in order to create a welcome page with the internal HTML editor.
- the course element "Enrolment" in order to control the registration of your students (e.g. the enrolment period),
- the course element "Forum" in order to provide a forum for your course participants,
- the course element "CP learning content" in order to implement your CP learning content stored in learning resources (or the course element "SCORM learning content" respectively),
- the course element "Test" in order to implement your test stored in learning resources and to determine from what time on your students are allowed to take the test, and
- the course element "Questionnaire" in order to implement the questionnaire stored in learning resources and to determine from what time on your students are allowed to fill it in.

Your third step is to

  1. log in as OLAT user with author rights (you are in your Home index right now),

  2. select "Learning resources" in the menu,

  3. click "Course" in the box "Create", insert at least a "Title" and a "Description" and save this (your course is now stored as a frame in learning resources),

  4. start the course editor,

  5. select the course elements you want, configure them in order to put together your entire course,

  6. close the editor (this means that your course is savely stored in learning resources).

Your course is now complete and can be opened for your students.

Abbildung 3.3. Creating a Course

Creating a Course