Open edX Demo Course, v2

Contents

This repository contains a course and some libraries that you can import into your Open edX instance to learn more about platform features. This course is geared mainly towards instructors, but learners can also benefit from learning how the platform and problem types work. For convenience, we include both:

• The .tar.gz files for you to import into Studio, located in the ./dist/ folder.
• The source code (a.k.a. "OLX") in the other top-level folders.

Name	Key	Download	Source OLX
Open edX demo Course	course-v1:OpenedX+DemoX+DemoCourse	./dist/demo-course.tar.gz	./demo-course
Open edX Example Content Library	library-v1:OpenedX+DemoRespiratoryQuestions	./dist/demo-content-library.tar.gz	./demo-content-library

Rationale

This course and its associated libraries aim to expose as many Open edX Studio & courseware features as possible. It does so by providing example usages of various block types and features such as cohorts and discussion forums.

This course serves as a user-facing introduction and tutorial to the Open edX platform.

It is useful for basic testing, but also needs to remain a suitable first experience for Open edX learners. For deep testing, we recommend using the Open edX Test Course.

Status

This course is new as of the Redwood (June 2024) release.

Usage

To use this course and its libraries, you can:

1. Manually Import the course
2. Perform a Scripted import using Tutor
3. Demo the course on Open edX® Training LMS.

1. Manual import

In Studio:

1. Create a library with the org demo and the slug ContentLibrary.
2. Import dist/demo-content-library.tar.gz into the library.
3. Create a course run with the org demo, name Course, and run 1.
4. Import dist/demo-course.tar.gz into the course run.

2. Scripted import (for Tutor users)

In the same environment that you use to run tutor, execute the command:

make import TUTOR=... TUTOR_CONTEXT=... LIBRARY_IMPORT_USER=...

where:

• TUTOR should be the command that you use to run Tutor (defaults to simply tutor).
• TUTOR_CONTEXT should be the mode in which you want to import the course (defaults to local, other acceptable values are k8s and dev).
• LIBRARY_IMPORT_USER is the username of an existing user in your Open edX instance that will be given ownership of the imported library (defaults to admin).

For example:

# Import in developer mode using a custom tutor root, and make alice the library admin.
make import TUTOR='tutor --root=~/tutor-root' TUTOR_CONTEXT=dev LIBRARY_IMPORT_USER=alice

Or:

# Import in kubernetes mode, and make bob the library admin.
make import TUTOR_CONTEXT=k8s LIBRARY_IMPORT_USER=bob

3. Demo on https://training.openedx.org

You can experience the course on training.openedx.org. Note that you can only experience the course as a student in this mode. Enroll at https://training.openedx.org/courses/course-v1:Axim+DemoX+Demo_Course/about.

Contributing

Contributions of bug fixes are welcome. There are two ways you can make changes to this course.

If you make changes to the course or library OLX and want to re-generate the importable .tar.gz files, simply run:

make dist

This will package the OLX into the dist directory.

OLX Editing

If you are experienced with editing raw OLX, then you can make changes directly to the XML and asset files this repository. Before opening a pull request, please:

• Run make dist, which will generate the dist/*.tar.gz archives. Include these changes in your commit.
• Import the updated dist/*.tar.gz archives into an Open edX Studio (as described above) and ensure the test course still works as expected, both in Studio and LMS.

Studio Editing

Once you've imported the test course and libraries into an Open edX instance (as described above), you can edit the course and its libraries in Studio. Make sure to Publish any changes you make from Studio so that you can test them out in LMS.

When you're ready to contribute the changes back into this repository, simply:

1. Export the course and any libraries you changed.
2. Move to exported .tar.gz archives into this repository's dist/ folder, and name them to match the top-level OLX folders. For example, the course archive should be named dist/demo-course.tar.gz, and the problem bank archive should be named dist/demo-content-library.tar.gz.
3. Run make unpack, which will unpack the archives into OLX.
4. Review your OLX changes using git diff.
5. Commit your changes and open a pull request.

Tag @openedx/openedx-demo-course-maintainers in all pull requests. We'll do our best to take a look! All pull requests should pass the GitHub Actions suite, which ensures that the course and libraries can be imported into a freshly-provisioned Tutor instance.

License

All content is made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 US License.

All code is made available under an AGPLv3 License