OpenOLAT
Learning management system for teaching, education, assessment and communication.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1,193 commits in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Learning and Courses: Moodle Cloud alternatives, Duolingo alternatives.
At a glance
OpenOLAT quick facts
- Health score
- 56/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 449
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "OpenOlat is a web-based e-learning platform for teaching, learning, assessment and communication, an LMS, a learning management system. OpenOlat impresses with its simple and intuitive operation and rich feature set."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
OpenOLAT scores 56/100, #11 of 16 in Learning and Courses: 1,193 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 449 stars add 10.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
1193 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 10.6 / 20
449 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 1193
- Last 90 days
- 3,695
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 16 tools in Learning and Courses by health , between Helium (#10) and RELATE (#12) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Java |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 449 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | OpenOLAT/OpenOLAT ↗ |
OpenOLAT vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with OpenOLAT (Learning and Courses), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INGInious | 90 | 243 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| ILIAS | 81 | 506 | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Open eClass | 79 | 170 | GPL-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| edX | 61 | 8.2k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| OpenOLAT (this tool) | 56 | 449 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Canvas LMS | 25 | 6.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 6 months ago |
OpenOLAT: common questions
Is OpenOLAT still maintained?
OpenOLAT had 1,193 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today. Repoly recomputes this nightly.