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Introduction

Didactic templates are offered to ease the use of ILIAS objects for specific didactic scenarios.
While ILIAS offers a lot of possible settings and permissions, this flexibility comes together with complexity. This can be challenging for some users, especially for newbies and part-time users.
The main goal of didactic templates is to offer all necessary settings for a specific educational scenario with one click. A user only needs to select the desired scenario - ILIAS takes care of the rest.
Example: You want to offer one folder in your course as an upload folder for all course members. Until now, this requires several changes in the permissions of this folder (including introducing a local permission policy and changes in the role templates of course members).
Thanks to didactic templates a user simply needs to select the desired scenario - and ILIAS does all changes in the background. These could be permission changes as well as changed settings of this object (and even the creation of new objects).
Activate a template on your ILIAS platform right now! Just go to Administration > Didactic Templates and get going!

How do I create and use the templates?

Didactic templates are written as XML files outside of ILIAS. You don’t have to write any template yourself to get started, though! Feel free to poke around our sharing section and grab some templates that could work for your didactic scenarios.

Once you have the required XML file, upload it in the Administration of your ILIAS installation. After that, templates are offered on the creation screen of the object type they belong to (e.g., a course) as well as on the Permissions and in the Settings tabs of some object types. This means that they can be applied to both new and existing objects.
On the next pages you will read how to write your own didactic template and how to use it.