6.2. Home

"Home" is your entrance to OLAT. Here, you can modify your profile (e.g. select your language), edit your personal data, change your OLAT password, and manage your bookmarks and notes. Additionally, OLAT provides you with a personal folder (private disk space on the OLAT server).

6.2.1. How can I configure my Home?

Each OLAT user can determine what his/her OLAT Home should look like. "Configure page" enables you to select the items and their order to be displayed on your Home. The following topics are at your disposal:

  • OLAT Quickstart Links

  • Did you know...?

  • OLAT System Information

  • My Bookmarks

  • My Groups

  • My News

  • My Evidences of Achievement

  • My Notes

  • Comic Strip

6.2.2. What settings can I modify?

  • User profile: the most important personal information such as user name, first and last name, e-mail address, and affiliation will be stored. Further information is voluntary. If you choose to provide further information OLAT users with special rights (e.g. course administrators, tutors) will be able to get access to it.

    It is important to know that you can change your personal e-mail address by means of your user profile. OLAT will automatically redirect incoming e-mails to your new address.

    User name, first and last name will be automatically transferred from your profile to your visiting card. This means that all other OLAT users will be able to see this information.

  • Visiting card: Your visiting card will automatically show your first and last name as well as your user name. If you want to provide further information you will have to modify your profile accordingly and mark your entries on the configuration page of your visiting card. Additionally, you can insert a text or a photo.

  • System: The system settings allow you to determine your language (German, French, Italian, and English, at the time being) as well as font size. In addition, you can decide upon the character encoding while downloading files by means of data archiving.

  • Password: As long as you know your current OLAT password and are logged in you can choose a new one.

  • Instant Messaging: If you do not want other users to know whether you are currently using OLAT you have the possibility to delete your name from the online user list. In case you want your name to appear on the online user list you can determine whether the time spent online or the course you are working on shall be indicated. Furthermore, you can decide on your general chat mode after logging in.

6.2.3. What notifications can I subscribe to?

If you are member of a group with a forum or folder or if you participate in a course with a forum or folder you can subscribe to automatic notifications. Each time the forum or folder is modified (e.g. by a new entry) you will receive a message.

6.2.4. Where can I manage my bookmarks?

Bookmarks help you to get quickly to the courses you participate or work on. You edit or delete bookmarks via "Home" / "Bookmarks". You can set bookmarks when first visiting a course or later on via learning resources (detailed view of the course).

6.2.5. Where can I store private documents?

Within OLAT, there will be a personal folder at your disposal to store private documents. This personal folder is subdivided into two folder types: "private" and "public". In both folders you can create any number of new folders, save documents of any kind, move documents within these folders, copy, delete, zip, and unzip. By means of "save as" you can even download single files from your personal folder to your PC. Entire folders can also be saved to your PC as zip file.

Attention: the folder "public" can be searched for by other OLAT users. They can also download each document stored in that folder.

If you have to store very large documents and therefore need more space in your personal folder, please contact the appropriate administrator.

Anmerkung

Attention: Umlauts, symbols, and spaces cause trouble! We recommend not to use umlauts or special characters in folder names or file names. Two words should not be separated by a space character but by _ (underline).

Example: Fruehzeitliche_Geschichte

6.2.6. How do I find my notes?

For each course you participate in you can create personal notes that only you will see. These notes can be edited or deleted afterwards.

You get access to these notes when opening the corresponding course. All of your notes can be found at "Home" / "My notes".

6.2.7. How do I find other OLAT users?

By means of the menu entry "Other users" you can search for other OLAT users. You can have a look at their visiting cards, download files from their public folder or send them an e-mail.