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(Project) OER Connect for ILIAS 11

Page Overview

1 Objectives of Project
2 Involved Maintainers and Stakeholders
3 Related Feature Requests and Status
4 Outlook
5 General Discussion

This is a project page that bundles several feature wiki pages which belong to a larger development activity for the ILIAS component Metadata, Export, Search, Administration, Cron Service.

This project is a follow up to the (Project) OER-friendly Infrastructure ILIAS 10.

1 Objectives of Project

Publishing is easy: ILIAS automatically pushes content into repositories, with edu-sharing serving as a case study.
- Some light-touch guidance to the publishing process for OER makes people feel more confident.
- Even more object types can get harvested and even more object types get LOM support.
Search and Import of OER is smooth: Searching for OER-licensed resources in repositories from within ILIAS improve their chance of getting noticed.
- The search is extended to include content found in repositories.
- Integrating OER-licensed learning resources in ILIAS needs improving.
- Importability of content is easily assessed. If content cannot be imported it can be easily integrated in other ways.
Quality Assurance is facilitated: Typically teams do a quality check before pushing content to Referatories.
- Licence status of elements in collections is easy to understand. You can look it up at a specific place.
Options Interoperability are explored: Options for making content more interoperable between moodle and ILIAS are explored.
- This is done by using intermediate / translational formats.
Usability is high and Documentation is current: OER Features are well documented, well-tested and highly usable. Making Settings is intuitve.
- Workflows for publishing OER-licensed resources are subjected to usability tests.
- Workflows for searching OER are subjected to usability tests.
- There is a short, correct and beautiful documentation.
- Test cases for OER are current and have a competent tester.

2 Involved Maintainers and Stakeholders

3 Related Feature Requests and Status

3.1 Publishing is easy

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Different Fields for LOM Digest	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	Uni Hannover	implemented for 11	contracted
'Publish as OER'-Button for Objects	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	Uni Freiburg	12	Conceptual work contracted
Even more object types for OER Harvester	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	Uni Hannover	Implemented for 11	Contracted
LOM Support for Wikis	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	Uni Hannover	11	Contracted
Abandon Setting LOM of Courses/Groups/Weblinks via SOAP	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	leifos	abandoned for 11	Contracted
Export SCORM with Metadata		funding required	12	needs conceptual work
LOM metadata for Learning Sequences	Seibt, Alina [alina.seibt]	funding required	12	Jour Fixe ready
Include Delete Status in OAI-PMH Interface	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	12	accepted, JF 23.06.2025
Publishing Plugin Content as OER	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	12	almost JF ready

3.2 Search and Import of OER is smooth

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Licenses in Search Results	Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]	bwOER-Connect.	11	contracted
Move Search Results Presentation to KS	Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]	HSU BW HH	implemented for 11	implemented
Export Sorting of Objects in Courses and Groups	Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)	funding required	12	JF ready
Export Preconditions set between Objects in Courses and Groups	Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)	funding required	12	JF ready
Export Learning Progress Settings of Objects in Courses and Groups	Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)	funding required	12	JF ready
Adapt Internal Links between Objects in Courses and Groups when exporting	Simon Yadel (MIau.nrw)	funding required	12	JF ready
Option for querying other ILIAS installations / repositories / referatories	Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel] Development of	Concept is contracted	12	not JF ready, needs conceptual work
Copyright, License, Artist for Media Objects in KS-Element	Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]	interest in funding ILIAS e.V.	12	not JF ready

3.3 Quality Assurance is facilitated

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
New tab ‘Media‘ and revised tab ‘Questions‘	Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]	Uni Freiburg	implemented for 11	Contracted
Overview Over LOM Copyright Information of Subobjects	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	12	not Jour Fixe ready, yet
Option to put container objects with every object under CC license	Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle]	funding required	12	not Jour Fixe ready, yet
Copyright, License, Artist for Media Objects in KS-Element	Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]	funding required	12	not JF ready
Allow the use of VCARDs in LOM	bwOER Connect	funding required	12	not JF ready

3.4 Options Interoperability are explored

3.5 Usability is high and Documentation is current

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Usability Improvements of LOM Editor	Widmaier, Leon [Leon]	funding required	12	not JF ready, depends on findings in usability tests
Move LOM Administration to KS	Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]	funding required	12	not JF ready

4 Outlook

For ILIAS 12

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Autocompleting Text Fields for Controlled Vocabularies in LOM Editor	bwOER Connect	funding required	>= 12	not JF ready
Wizard for OER-Publishing	SIG OER	funding required	>= 12	not ready, needs conceptual work
Search includes results from OER-Repositories		funding required	>= 12
Taxon in LOM filtert Taxonomien / TAxonomien und Metadaten besser zusammenbringen			>= 12

5 General Discussion

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 25 NOV 2024: Tim explained what is planned within this project for ILIAS 11. The project is mainly supported by bwOER Connect (universities from Baden-Württemberg). Several usability tests are planned and findings might result in usability fixes for 10 and new features in 11. More ideas to improve the support for OER support are highly appreciated.

Statement UX/UI/A11y-Experts, 05 DEC 2024:

It is difficult for us to estimate how large the group of users who will benefit from this project will be - however, the easier it becomes, the more likely it should be that OERs will be used and offered. We believe that improving interoperability and compatibility with Moodle is important for the (public) perception of ILIAS. We are very pleased about the planned usability tests and would be happy for the results to be shared; perhaps they can be of use across the board.

Statement Privacy Clinic, 09 DEC 2024

From the perspective of the Privacy Clinic, we have carefully reviewed the project and found no issues or concerns that would warrant any objections. However, if any personal data is intended to be processed, we kindly request information from the involved maintainers and stakeholders.

Last edited: 24. Sep 2025, 12:17, Schmitz, Tim [tschmitz]