Settings and Menu Entries of Your Home
Each OLAT user can adapt the Home area to a certain extent. On the one hand you can restructure the sections displayed according to your needs. On the other hand there are a number of personal settings you can set up in your Home.
Configuring Entries in Your Home
The sections in your Home consist of various shortcuts to your groups, your learning resources, your calendar, your notifications, a comic strip, as well as to information on OLAT in general. You can choose which sections should be displayed in an arrangement of your choice.
Let us assume that most of the time you have to deal with groups. Therefore you may want to position the section "My groups" more prominently: just click on "Configure page" on your top right. Then move the section "My groups" wherever you want to by means of the arrows provided.
You can further determine how many entries should be visible within a certain section. In order to do this just click on one of the following icons: "Sort manually" or "Sort automatically." If you choose "Sort manually" you will be able to determine the selection of entries as well as their sequence.
If you do not want to see certain sections in your Home you can deactivate these sections. Deactivated sections will be displayed at the bottom of the page when configuring your Home. You can reactivate them anytime.
After completing your configuration you should click on "End configuration" on your top right.
Settings
In the menu on the left just underneath the option "Settings" you can modify your personal data. This may be necessary if you want to forward OLAT e-mail messages to another mail address or if you want to create a visiting card.
Just indicate your data in your profile and save that information. By means of check boxes you can decide which data should appear on your visiting card, that is, what other users should be able to see. You can also upload a photo to be published on your visiting card. This photo will also be visible when publishing forum contributions or comments.
You can further adapt the font size and your system language in the tab "System" (OLAT has been translated into numerous languages). You can further determine how often you want to receive notifications via e-mail. You can choose between: off, monthly, weekly, daily, every 6 hours, and every two hours.
Your chat features can be determined by means of "Instant Messaging," e.g. your status after having logged in.
Calendar
In the calendar you can see your private events as well as events regarding calendars of groups and courses. In the list right underneath the active calendar day you can hide and unhide each calendar or determine which calendar should be displayed in a certain color.

Should your calendar remain empty or should certain events not appear, it could be that you forgot to select that calendar in the calendar list.
In order to add a new event to your calendar you have to click inside the appropriate calendar field. If you are a group member you have to first select from the pull-down menu to which calendar (personal calendar or group calendar) you want to add your new event. Events can be edited or deleted by clicking on their time specification.
Use the OLAT event search to find events already existing. By means of the link "Go to date" you can directly navigate to any past or future date.
By means of iCal (a standard to manage events) you can integrate various OLAT calendars into another calendar, e.g. the Google calendar. It is therefore also possible to integrate any other calendar into the OLAT calendar.
Subscriptions
Thanks to OLAT's notifications you are always up-to-date regarding your courses or groups: you will be informed about new documents in a folder, about answers to forum entries or modified Wiki pages. In many places you can select the option "Subscribe" to be kept informed. News will be displayed immediately in the tab "Home," section "Notifications"; OLAT will send you an appropriate e-mail once a day. If you prefer to receive such messages less often or not at all you can adapt these settings in your Home in the tab "System".
If you do not need your subscription any longer you can either unsubscribe it (same place as "Subscribe") or you can select the option "Delete" in your Home, section "Subscriptions," right next to your resource.
In the section "Subscriptions" of your Home you can choose to be shown any modifications within a certain period of time in the tab "News" or you can choose to have sent those modifications once again via e-mail.
Bookmarks
Bookmarks serve to get faster access to your learning resources. In the detailed view of your course you will find a link in the box "Learning resource" to be able to set bookmarks. In your Home you can then edit or delete these bookmarks.
Personal Folder
In your personal folder OLAT provides you with storage space. Here you can store presentations you want to use from another computer or cache a research paper, etc.
This personal folder contains two areas, the "Private" and the "Public" one. Only you will have access to your private area. In the subfolder "Public" you can store files you want to share with other OLAT users. By means of the link "Other users" you can search for other OLAT users and have access to those users' "Public" folder via the menu item "Folder."
The personal folder is WebDAV compatible, i.e. folders in OLAT act as a regular network drive. Therefore it is very easy to copy, move or delete files. For more information please go to " Using WebDAV".

In case the memory limit (Quota) is exceeded due to large files in your personal folder you can contact your support team to allocate more space.
Notes
You can take notes in each course. You can collect and edit your notes before even printing them.
Evidence of Achievement
An evidence of achievement is a certification of some assessment, e.g. tests, written examinations, or other tasks handed in to be reviewed. Course authors determine if OLAT should create assessments in their course. Course participants will see their evidences of achievement after taking a test, etc. that has been assessed.
Other Users
Search for other OLAT users! Have a look at their visiting card, at the "Public" area of their personal folder, or send them a message by means of a contact form.
In the footer you will find a link indicating all users logged on at that moment.