xblock-pdf

• Cloned by Potaje6 to translate the buttons text

Course component (Open edX XBlock) that provides an easy way to embed a PDF

Features

• Download button available
• (Optional) Source document download button, for example to provide your PPT file
• Create tracking logs:
  • edx.pdf.loaded when a student loads the PDF
  • edx.pdf.downloaded when a student downloads the PDF

Customize the XBlock

By default, PDF Download Allowed is set to True. The default value can be changed in xblock-pdf/pdf/ pdf.py

Install / Update the XBlock

Add it to the EDXAPP_EXTRA_REQUIREMENTS variable.

EDXAPP_EXTRA_REQUIREMENTS:
  - name: 'git+https://github.com/IONISx/xblock-pdf.git@v1.0.0#egg=xblock-pdf'

Then run your deployment playbooks.

Restart your Open edX processes

sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl -c /edx/etc/supervisord.conf restart edxapp:

Use the XBlock

Activate the XBlock in your course

Go to Settings -> Advanced Settings and set advanced_modules to ["pdf"].

Use the XBlock in a unit

Select Advanced -> PDF in your unit.

Development environment

For the code quality environment, you need to install both Python and JavaScript requirements.

Run the following:

npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install

Then, preferably in a virtualenv, run

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, run grunt test to assess code quality.

License

GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 (AGPL 3.0)