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RELATE vs OpenOlat: catalog facts
RELATEOpenOlat
Free

Free and open source.

Free

The software is open source; hosting and support are offered commercially.

Web, Self-hosted Web, Self-hosted
  • Course content as plain YAML and Markdown under git version control
  • Auto-graded code questions with sandboxed execution
  • Modular course building with many didactic tools
  • Built-in testing and assessment
  • No packaged releases; installed from source
  • Content authoring assumes comfort with text files and git
  • Main website is largely in German
  • Requires running a Java server stack
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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