About
OLAT is a mature Learning Management System (LMS) with a nearly twenty-year track record. It has been developed since 1999 at University of Zurich (UZH).
OLAT is hosted by the Department of Information Technology of UZH and is available to all faculties and institutes as well as to other Swiss universities and higher education institutions.
The development of OLAT focuses on the Tertiary Education sector. Extensions, add-ons and plug-ins are designed and implemented in close cooperation with the Swiss academic community at universities and higher education institutions.
Requirements and software engineering regarding OLAT is dedicated to all stakeholders at UZH.
The results of the in-house developed Educational Technologies (EdTech) are shared with the Open Source community all over the world.
Desktop
Windows (50%)
macOS (44%)
Linux (6%)
Mobile
iOS (75%)
Android (25%)
Windows (<0.1%)
Statistics based on OLAT usage in 2018
Code Management
Code paid by the people should be available to the people. Contribute at GitHub or dive into open source code history at Mercurial.
Learn moreContinuous Delivery
The results of research and development are delivered continuously passing several automated testing pipelines.
Learn moreAgile Methodology
Development and operations rely on adaptive planning and evolutionary engineering by a cross-functional DevOps team.
Learn moreSoftware and Systems Engineering
The OLAT team is grateful for Open Source licenses and Community editions from various vendors of tools on which we rely in our daily workflows. Our workbench includes the following tools for software engineering, test automation and infrastructure development.