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System settings and maintenance: General settings

Basic settings Setting a short title You would like to define a short title in ILIAS which appears in the browser's header and on the individual tabs opened in the browser. 1. Open the Administration and select the entry General Settings. 2. ILIAS displays the General Settings tab

System settings and maintenance: Languages

Languages Manage language versions The ILIAS user interface (GUI) is currently available in 22 different language versions. These versions are maintained by volunteers from the respective country or culture and are complete to varying degrees.  You would like to manage the system languages of your ILIAS installation. 1. Click Administration

System settings and maintenance: Online help

Activate help Create and activate online help Import the online help into your ILIAS installation 1. Download the online help package (zip file) belonging to your ILIAS version. Do NOT rename the file! 2. In your ILIAS installation, open Administration > System settings and maintenance > Online help. 3. Upload

System settings and maintenance: Restored objects

Restore objects Click on Administration in the main header bar and select the Restored objects option. Now that the deleted objects have been restored, you can retrieve them there: The rescue folder "Restored objects" is not visible until an initial system check has been carried out (see previous

System settings and maintenance: Magazine, recycle bin and rights

Restore deleted magazine objects Move, link and delete objects You can quickly move, link or delete objects in the administration. This offers two advantages over working directly in the repository: You can quickly move, link or delete objects in the administration. This offers two advantages over working directly in the

Layout and navigation: Main menu

Configure main menu Configuration of the main menu - Introduction The main menu can be configured: Create exactly the entries that your organization needs; you can add, deactivate, rename entries, change the icons or make entries accessible only to certain target groups.  Main entries are the huge buttons that make

Layout and navigation: Layout

Design the look & feel of ILIAS Starting points for the design There are two types of stylesheets that control the display of ILIAS. Both  1. Content styles control how content created with the page editor looks in the objects. For example, the color and size of the page headings

Layout and navigation: Editor

ILIAS page editor Special editing options for the ILIAS editor In ILIAS, the so-called "ILIAS Editor" is an authoring tool that can be used to design page interfaces in various places, e.g: * on a page of an ILIAS learning module, * on a page of a SCORM learning

Layout and navigation: Accessibility

Accessibility Accessibility settings Information on the accessibility status of the system can be stored in the footer of ILIAS. A mechanism for reporting barriers can also be offered there, and you cannot pass a BITV test without these documents. You want to activate and set these functions for this ILIAS

Accounts and roles: ILIAS accounts

List of ILIAS accounts ILIAS accounts introduction You want to set up and manage ILIAS accounts that are valid for the entire ILIAS installation. You can: * Import ILIAS accounts * Allow independent registration * also provide local account management for non-authorized administrators * Optimize login processes, for example by using the automatic e-mail

Accounts and roles: Usage agreements

Accounts and roles: Roles

Central principles of the rights system in ILIAS Introduction The ILIAS permissions system regulates access to the platform and the respective use of the content and functions offered. As ILIAS has a role-based permissions system, all permissions are not directly linked to persons, but to roles. The sum of the

Accounts and roles: Didactic templates

Import didactic templates Didactic templates - Introduction So-called "didactic templates" can be created and managed in ILIAS. The functionality is very limited on the user interface, i.e. there is no editing mode for creating and editing these templates, but they have to be described in the form

Accounts and roles: Authentication/new registration

Authentication Authentication via external servers By default, a user of your ILIAS installation is authenticated when logging in using the personal data in the ILIAS database, i.e. their log-in is checked for validity. However, there may be scenarios in which it is of interest to manage user IDs in

Accounts and roles: Data protection and server security

Data protection Data protection of the personal profile Course and group administrators have access to members' data. 1. Open Administration > Accounts and roles > Data protection and server security.  2. Select privacy-related settings regarding access to account data, user agreement, display of last access time. 3. Click Save.

Personal workspace: Dashboard

Activate personal workspace Personal workspace basics In ILIAS there is a personal workspace for each user in which various resources can be stored: * Parallel to the repository, but only available to the respective user, simple objects such as files and web links can be created. These can also be reused

Personal workspace: Tagging

Settings Activate and configure tagging Objects in the ILIAS repository can be provided with so-called "tags" by the users. You want to activate tagging. Prerequisite: You must first have added one or more tags. 1. Open Administration>Personal Workspace>Tagging. 2. ILIAS shows tagging area. 3.

Personal workspace: Calendar

Activating and configuring the calendar Users can enter appointments under Personal workspace > Calendar or check which appointments others have entered. * Courses and groups have their own calendars, which are available to all members. * The ILIAS calendar system supports time zones. * The calendar system's appointments can be synchronized

Personal workspace: Portfolio

Portfolios - Introduction Portfolios serve as reflection and collection folders that are filled individually. They can be used to demonstrate skills and reflect on learning processes. The main component of an e-portfolio is often several work results: texts, files, images or videos. In addition, a portfolio usually also contains reflections

Learning successes: Competence management

Competence management - introduction In ILIAS, the competencies are maintained centrally in the administration. The competencies and their characteristics can be used for self-assessment and for querying external assessments, and users can document and evaluate their competencies within a given framework. This allows portfolios to be compared: Institutionally defined or

Learning successes: Access statistics and learning progress

Access statistics and learning progress Tracking - Introduction In learning progress reports, detailed data on the status of individual objects such as learning modules of all types, tests and exercises as well as entire courses and groups can be queried. ILIAS prepares various data on user access: * Administration > Learning

Learning successes: Badges

Activate and configure badges globally Activate badges for the entire platform 1. Open learning successes. 2. ILIAS shows you the selection menu with all administration entries. 3. Select the Badges entry. 4. ILIAS opens the administration of the badges and shows you the Settings tab. 5. Activate the checkboxes Activate

Learning successes: Certificates

Standardize certificates Since version 4.0, the automatic personalized creation of certificates is now available as a general service and was also made possible for SCORM learning modules in a first expansion step. In the main menu, go to Administration > Learning achievements and select the menu item Certificates.   Here

Communication: Mail

Mail settings E-mail system in ILIAS ILIAS has an internal e-mail system that is available to you after logging into the system. You have the option of using the corn system * send messages to individuals as well as to the participants in your learning groups. * send automated emails, e.g.

Communication: User contacts

Activate contacts function You want to activate the contacts function: 1. Go to the main menu item Administration and select User contacts in the context menu under Communication. 2. Select the option Activate "User contacts" and click on Save. 3. ILIAS activates the function and users can get

Communication: News and web feeds

News and web feeds ILIAS offers these functions related to news/web feeds: * It is possible to create news in the repository (in container objects as well as for learning modules and glossaries), which display information about news and developments in the objects concerned. This news is displayed in an

Search and find: Search

Search in ILIAS In ILIAS it is possible to search all objects created in ILIAS by means of a metadata-based or full-text search for specific keywords. Several properties of the search function are available for selection in the administration. Settings Define search settings Click Administration in the main header and

Search and find: Metadata

Metadata in ILIAS "Metadata or meta information is the general term for data that contains information about other data. [...] Typical metadata for a book include the author's name, the edition, the year of publication, the publisher and the ISBN. The metadata of a computer file includes the

Search and find: Taxonomy

Taxonomies in ILIAS The taxonomy represents a hierarchical classification of content in ILIAS. So far, both local object-related taxonomies and a global taxonomy have been implemented in the ILIAS administration. * Glossaries can be structured in terms of content using taxonomies. Glossaries are traditionally organized like dictionaries and the terms they

Organizational units

Introduction - Organizational units Organizational units - Introduction ILIAS allows the hierarchical relationships in organizations to be mapped using organizational units. this structure allows ILIAS accounts whose persons in reality belong together to an organizational unit to be combined in ILIAS, e.g. to evaluate their learning progress in aggregated

Extend ILIAS: LTI

LTI in administration Basics Authentication: LTI versions Add LTI consumer Objective: You would like to add LTI consumers and use ILIAS here as an LTI provider. Prerequisite: The other technical system must be LTI-capable. Click-by-click  1. Open Administration > Expand ILIAS > LTI.  2. ILIAS shows the ILIAS tab as

Extend ILIAS: xAPI/cmi5

xAPI/cmi5 in the administration Using the Learning Record Store (LRS) A Learning Record Store (LRS) is a prerequisite for the use of xAPI/cmi5 objects. An LRS is used to store and retrieve data in accordance with the xAPI specifications. In addition to statements, data consists primarily of states.

Extend ILIAS: Plugins

Plugins - Introduction Functionalities that are not included in the standard scope of ILIAS can be made available through so-called plugins. * To be able to use a plugin, it must first be installed on the server. * Plugins can only be activated or deactivated in the administration. Information on ILIAS plug-ins

Repository and objects: Repository

Select standard magazine view There are two possible views of the repository: the flat view offers step-by-step navigation through the repository levels, while the tree view better illustrates the hierarchical structure of the repository. Here you can see the tree structure of the repository with all its sub-levels at a

Repository and objects: Course

Mails about status changes Suppress the sending of automatic status e-mails When users are assigned to courses, an e-mail is automatically sent to inform the user of the assignment. These e-mails are sent every time the membership status changes: Sign out or upgrade to course administration. This is not desirable

Repository and objects: Group

Standard, automatic mails Suppress the sending of automatic status e-mails When users are assigned to groups, an e-mail is automatically sent to inform the user of the assignment. These e-mails are sent every time the membership status changes: Unsubscribe or upgrade to group administration. This is not desirable in many

Repository and objects: Study programs

Repository and objects: Bibliography

Bibliography Add libraries Reference lists can be linked to library systems so that users have the option of calling up the corresponding entry for the literature in the linked library system, which is then opened in a new window, by clicking on the "Query holdings" button.The prerequisite

Repository and objects: Blog

Select default settings for blogs If the personal workspace has been activated, each user has their own area in which various resources can be kept.in the personal workspace, users can create files, folders, web links and blogs.there are different types of blogs in ILIAS.in the administration dialog

Repository and objects: Chat

Settings Chats in ILIAS A chat system is available in ILIAS. The chat server that makes this possible is not a direct component of ILIAS, but a Java-based server service and must be installed during the initial installation. Smilies Make smilies available You are located in the administration under Repository

Repository and objects: Files

Settings Use uploaded file name If a file is uploaded to ILIAS, a title can be specified for the resulting object that differs from the original name of the file, i.e. what it was called on the uploading user's local computer before the upload. Since version ILIAS

Repository and objects: Forum

Default settings for forums - Introduction In ILIAS, you can globally predefine forum properties in the administration dialog under the Forum entry. you want to access the global forum settings. 1. Click on Administration in the main menu. 2. Select the Repository and objects entry from the context menu. 3.

Repository and objects: Learning modules

Global settings for learning modules Activate page history Authors who work with the ILIAS editor can track which changes have been made to pages via an editing history, regardless of whether this is the case in an ILIAS learning module or on the start page of a course, for example.

Repository and objects: Mediacast

Select standard settings for mediacasts So-called "mediacasts" (also known as "podcasts") can be created in ILIAS: "Podcasting" refers to the production and provision of media files (audio or video) that can be subscribed to via the Internet. [...] A single podcast (German: ein Hörstück, more

Repository and objects: Media objects and pools

Activate content modules In order to be able to use so-called content modules as combinations of page content for the ILIAS editor in media objects and pools, these must be activated in the administration. These content modules can be reused in ILIAS learning modules, for example, but cannot be edited

Repository and objects: Surveys

Settings Select default settings for surveys Under the administration dialog Surveys, several setting options are available that relate to a possible invitation to surveys. * By activating the option "Show access keys", the access keys are displayed instead of the login name in anonymized surveys (instead of just a

Repository and objects: Test and assessment

Settings Activate logging of activities in the test In addition to the tracking options described above, ILIAS also provides a detailed analysis of access data for tests. Proceed as follows: 1. Click Administration in the main header and select the Test & Assessment option. 2. To activate detailed tracking, select

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