The "course" is an ILIAS object that belongs to the container objects in ILIAS just like the "category". You can use the course to provide online materials for your courses (e.g. lectures, seminars, tutorials etc.) for your participants. Furthermore, the "course object" also offers the possibility to display administrative tasks such as the structuring of individual course dates or the communication with members.

Courses are mainly used to illustrate courses in virtual space. Each course (lecture, seminar etc.) is represented on the ILIAS learning platform by a course created for it.

• In this virtual course room, course administrators can enter materials (files, videos, knowledge tests etc.) or create them with the authoring tools (e.g. "ILIAS learning module" / "ILIAS test") that ILIAS provides.
• Furthermore, it is possible to invite members to this course room with the help of the course. Like in a real course room in the university building, persons can enter this virtual course room and access the deposited materials and information there.

With the course object it is not only possible to provide students with materials to accompany their classroom sessions. You can also use an ILIAS course to display your course offerings completely online (without classroom attendance). However, this option should be didactically well prepared and thought through. Further functionalities and setting options for the course are explained in the online tutorials listed below.

In the coming summer semester, the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences will offer a seminar on "Introduction to Media Didactics" for its "Instructional Design" degree program.

• For this course, the teachers would like to provide the students with some materials - suitable literature, references to suitable web links, some explanatory videos - and have also decided that the students should create an e-portfolio to accompany the seminar.

• In order to make the materials easily accessible to everyone, create a course on ILIAS. Then you enter all prepared materials into this course room and create a template for the students using the ILIAS object "Portfolio" so that they can work on the accompanying e-portfolio.

• In the course of the seminar, the teachers inform their students (members of the course) about the current procedure and which materials should be prepared for the next classroom session using the "mail to members" function.

The course rooms in ILIAS can also be visually adapted with the help of various editors and design elements. In this way, you can create a structure that optimally supports your methodical-didactical approach.

Designing course rooms on ILIAS in a way that is conducive to learning - Recording "Virtual lecture series of the HND BW“ (in German)