OLAT 7 has been released last week and it contains the integration of a QTI 2.1 test engine (Onyx plugin by our partners from BPS GmbH Germany). Here's the full OLAT 7 release notes:



Some of the new features are a course element supporting IMS Basic LTI interoperability, a wizard simplifying the creation of OLAT courses, a pluggable QTI 2.1 test engine and many improved features and components. And last but not least the installation of OLAT for productive use got significantly easier! No need to download source code anymore, just grab the WAR file and deploy it in your Tomcat servlet engine!

The new features and major improvements in OLAT 7.0 are:

. Integration of external tools through the IMS Basic LTI interoperability standard
. Implementation of a course wizard with which courses with the most popular elements can be easily created
. Integration of a QTI 2.1 test engine (ONYX plugin)
. Integration of OLAT into existing IT infrastructure with the new REST API (beta)
. Mail attachments in user visiting card, group and course contact form
. Various component improvements: topic assignment, context sensitive help, task, calendar, full-text search, single page, notifications
. Improvements in LDAP module for synchronisation of large LDAP directories and OLAT cluster operatings (operations)
. Browser side caching of course media resources to reduce network load
. Refactoring of depricated forms using "Flexi Form" infrastructure part III
. Packaged deployment (WAR) consistent with the Java Web Specification thereby simplifying the rollout of the application
. Various bugfixes and software upgrades

For an extensive list of what we were working on during the last couple of months check the release notes available on the OLAT website. To download OLAT 7 please visit http://www.olat.org

Have fun with our latest OLAT release!
Your OLAT team