3.5. Step 4 - Open Course for Students

Step 4 will tell you how to make the course accessible to your students.

This happens by means of a two-stage mechanism of publication:

  1. Your course has to be opened in learning resources for those OLAT users you wish: In learning resources the access is defined for each entry. When creating a new course only you as owner and other appointed co-owners will have the right to open that course for other users. As soon as you set the entry in learning resources to "All OLAT users", that is, as soon as you allow other OLAT users to access your resource, your students will be able to attend the course. (Step 4, A-D)

  2. Each course element has to be published in the section editor tools: in order to make those elements accessible and visible for users these elements have to be opened within the editor tools, which means that they have to be published. Later modification of your course or of single course elements have to be published separately in order to be effective. (Step 4, E-H)

In summary, one can say that your course has to be opened in learning resources for those OLAT users you wish, while the separate course elements have to be published in the section editor tools.

This two-staged mechanism of publishing enables you to go on working on a course without the participants' knowledge. Only when publishing other course elements will those be visible and accessible for your students.

Your fourth 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. select "My entries" in the OLAT menu, search for your course, click "Select" before clicking "Modify",

  4. select the users you want in the section "Access" and save this setting,

  5. start the course editor,

  6. click "Publish" in the section "Editor tools" before selecting the relevant course elements,

  7. confirm your choice by clicking "Publish" and then "OK",

  8. close the course editor in the section "Editor tools".

Your course is now accessible for students.

Abbildung 3.4. Open Course for Students

Open Course for Students