10-140 Reuse Teaching Material and Courses

Overview

You have various options for reusing teaching materials and courses:

  • Archive and re-upload course content
  • Create learning resources in the workspace (Test, Form, Word, Excel, ...)
  • File storage in the Personal folder
  • Videos and recordings in Opencast
  • Course templates: are used for the simple and effective reuse of course content such as course elements and course structures. Among other things, course templates can be used to
    • Test settings and functions
    • prepare course content collectively
    • copy course content into different (semester) courses

Please note: OpenOlat is a learning management system and does NOT serve as a permanent repository for teaching and learning material. Please use e.g. Fileshare for this purpose. Courses in OpenOlat are embedded in a lifecycle, including course templates, and are moved to the "recycle bin" 18 months after the end of the semester. You can find more information on the lifecycle in HelpCard 10-090 Lifecycle of courses.

Important steps

Archiving and uploading course content

Follow the instructions in HelpCard 10-060 Archiving course content.

 

Create learning resources

  1. Click on Authoring.
  2. Click on Create and select the desired learning resource from the drop-down menu.
  3. Follow the further instructions in OpenOlat. The learning resource is now saved in Authoring and can be referenced or integrated into different courses.

 

File storage in the Personal folder

Follow the instructions in HelpCard 00-020 Personal Settings.

 

Saving videos and recordings

Use the central access point Opencast for this.

 

Create a course template

  1. Click on Authoring.
  2. Click on Create and in the drop-down menu on Course. The course wizard opens.
  3. Select Classic Course design.
  4. Enter a Course title (e.g. Course template + Your name)
  5. Click on Create.
  6. Click on Add owner to enter additional course owners. (Additional owners can also be added and/or removed later at any time via the Members management. More information on this in HelpCard 20-020).
  7. Select the Course access.
  8. Course members (VIS:online): The participants are automatically transferred from VIS:online.
    1. Course members (manual administration): You enter participants into the course yourself manually via the Members management (for more information, see HelpCard 20-020).
    2. Enrollment: Course participants enrol in the course themselves.
    3. Access code: The code must be entered when joining the course for the first time (note: case-sensitive!).
    4. Period: The course is only available for a certain period of time.
  9. Click on Create. A new window will open.
  10. Select the desired modules and click Next. Information: The most common course elements are suggested. You can also use Copy from to search for courses in which you are already entered as the owner and copy blocks from there to your new course. You will also find the "Import from another course" function later in the course editor (see HelpCards 10-050).
    1. If necessary, select the desired Learning resources and click Next.
    2. If necessary, select the files you want to import.
  11. Finally, click on Finish. You are now in the settings of your course. (You can find more information on this in HelpCard 10-012).
  12. Click on the name of your course in the top left-hand corner. This will take you to the course view. (If you have already inserted course elements when creating the course, you will see them in the course structure. You can find out how to add and manage additional course elements in HelpCard 10-020).

Information: You can copy a course template as a whole or modules from it into your course. Please note that courses template can also be deleted by the course lifecycle and may have to be extended.

 

Inserting content into other courses

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