Welcome to today's video tutorial.
I would like to show you how to find and join courses on the new ILIAS platform.
I would also like to present you the two areas Overview and Favourites,
explain the differences and show you how to configure and manage both areas.
I wish you an interesting session. As you can see,
Since the new version of ILIAS, after logging in,
you you will automatically be taken to the Overview page, which in turn will show you all your Favourites.
If you have already taken courses in the past, they will automatically appear in your Favourites.
New courses, i.e. all courses that have been added since the platform update, no longer automatically show up in Favourites,
they can, however, be actively added by you at any time if you wish, just as you are used to from other services on the Internet.
I would like to show you in the next step,
how to find courses and join them if required, and then how to add them to your Favourites.
There are various options here. If you have enrolled to your course via Campus Management HISinOne,
this course might already appear in "My Courses and Groups".
In my case, this would be the main seminar "Media Technology". In this case, enrolment is not necessary since you are automatically a course member.
And if the course is already online, you can access it directly via the course link.
At this point, you also have the option of adding your course to your Favourites via the context menu, which you can see on the right-hand side.
As a result, your course will appear on your Overview page immediately after logging in,
and from there you can access the course directly. Of course, you have the option to remove your course at any time,
To do this, click on the context menu and then select the entry "Remove from Favourites".
Don't worry, your course will of course still be accessible via the "My Courses and Groups" button.
You can access it from there and also add it back to the Favourites at any time if required.
The procedure I have just shown, i.e. removing Favourites,
can also be very helpful if you have many older courses on your Overview page:
Simply remove courses,
that you no longer need from the Favourites. Your Overview page will then appear much leaner and will also load much faster,
the less content it contains. If you have not found your course in "My Courses and Groups, you might first
have to actively search for it in the Repository, then join it to finally be a course member.
I would like to show this procedure in the next step. To do this, click on the Repository button and go to the Repository - Home page.
Then navigate through the respective semester category,
select your faculty, your institute or your stuy programme and search for your course this way.
I have found my course, it is
"Introduction to Videoconferencing Technology". By clicking on the course title I can now join it.
To do this, you will usually need a course password, which you will receive from your lecturer.
Then click on Join, and you will automatically be added to the course members.
After the joining procedure your course will automatically appear in "My Courses and Groups".
And from here you can in turn add your course to your Favourites if you wish,
so that it is available on your Overview page, ready to be clicked.
Another way to find a course is to use the search functions, which you will find at the top right.
Simply enter the title of the course or parts of the title.
And so you can also find it this way and join the course after entering the course password.
If you cannot find your course this way either, your lecturers might not use ILIAS at all,
or the course might simply not yet be online and is therefore not available.
If you have any questions, please contact your lecturer.
Thank you very much for your attention,
I wish you a good semester and lots of fun and success working with our learning platform ILIAS.