With version 5.0, new features like Wiki, Calendar, AJAX Beta Mode, and Fulltext Search have been implemented.

A subsequent version provides full scalability, meaning OLAT can be run on a cluster of servers.

OLAT has been developed from the beginning to support campus-wide E-learning and can be compared to commercial tools like WebCT Vista.

OLAT runs without modification on Unix, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X.

The requirements for OLAT are: The project was initiated in 1999 but later rebuilt using Java and released as open source in 2004.