Central Learning Management System OLAT

OLAT (Online Learning and Training) is the central Learning Management System of Goethe University. As a teacher, you can use OLAT to offer digitally supported teaching (as enrichment or blended learning). You can use various functionalities: folders, forums, link lists, topic assignment, tasks with and without peer review, tests and questionnaires or (via the video management portal Mediasite) integrated video streams are just a small selection of your options.

Please note: Tuesdays between 8:30 am and 10:30 am is Update time in OLAT. During this maintenance period the learning management system may not be available. Should OLAT not be available outside this period, please write an email to: lernsysteme@rz.uni-frankfurt.de

Access to OLAT

Sign in to OLAT: https://olat-ce.server.uni-frankfurt.de

OLAT Login
You need a HRZ-Account (Login and Password) in order to sign on. You should have received this by mail along with your Goethe-Card.

Did you forget your password?
Please contact the Goethe-Card Service: goethecard@rz.uni-frankfurt.de

How to change the language settings in OLAT

After your first log in you can access “Einstellungen" (settings) in the menu on your homepage. Select “System" (system) and you will find the language selection dropdown menu next to "Sprache" (language). Then click on the Button “Speichern" (save) and the interface will be in English immediately. 

At your next login, OLAT will then continue to use the English interface for your courses.

How to create a course with OLAT (Authors)

If you want to create a course on the central learning management platform OLAT, you first need author rights / author privileges. In order to get these rights activated on your account, please send us an email: lernsysteme@rz.uni-frankfurt.de

If your account has author rights, you can click on the tab "Learning Resources" and create your course with the button "Create course". Please refer to the Quick Start Guide (linked below). 

Additionally, courses should be linked within the catalogue to facilitate students' access. This is not an automatic process. Please send us (Team Lernsysteme) the following links via email:

1. The link to the OLAT course.
2. The link to the course in QIS/LSF to which the OLAT course belongs.

When integrating a course, we also check whether the course is technically accessible.

OLAT learning content

OLAT learning content consists of resources that can be used within OLAT either independently or via a corresponding course element in courses.

OLAT learning content include tests, surveys, CP content, SCORM content, resource folders, wikis, blogs, podcasts, media libraries, flashcard sets, glossaries and portfolio templates.

OLAT learning content has the following characteristics:

• The same OLAT learning content can be embedded in as many courses as required.
• If an OLAT learning content is modified, this change affects all courses in which it is embedded.
• Other OLAT authors can also be granted ownership rights to the same OLAT learning content and then embed it in their own courses without this affecting the editing rights for the respective courses.
• The size of an OLAT learning content does not affect the course. Once embedded in the course, it counts as a single course element, regardless of how many subpages it contains, and it does not affect the course's performance.

Course content stored within a course, such as literature, informational texts or assignments, may be learning resources, but they are not OLAT learning content.

You can find out what OLAT and the OLAT elements have to offer, as well as further information about OLAT courses, in our manuals, which are updated regularly: OLAT Manuals

Are you a teacher who wants to provide support in a didactically meaningful way for your students’ learning processes and are wondering how you can do this in OLAT?

Are you a student and would like to use OLAT to collaborate and learn with other students?

Are you a guest auditor and need access to OLAT?

Please feel free to contact us at any time regarding your OLAT-related request.

We, the Team Lernsysteme, gladly support you: lernsysteme@rz.uni-frankfurt.de