I am busy changing the world

Important note: Bitnami distribution of Open edX is designed for testing and demonstration purposes so the e-commerce module integration is for experiment only. Please use this installation guide as your own risk. Bitnami' Open edX distribution only includes several core services such as LMS, Studio, XQueue, Forum as well as supporting services like MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached, Apache or Elasticsearch (more details here ). Additionally, Bitnami' application structure for Open edX is different than the official stack supported by the Open edX community. So, because of those reasons, in order to integrate the e-commerce module in your running instance, currently, there is no way other than doing it manually. I have had a chance to deploy successfully the e-commerce into a test Open edX instance for a customer. Below is how I did it. You can use it as a reference and leave me a comment if you find any errors or want to add something. 1. Directory structure: Assuming you ...

Course staffs of a certain course can send notification emails (bulk emails) to students in the instructor dashboard of Open edX's LMS. But, to enable that functionality, the only way I know right now is: 1. Go to the django's admin interface > Bulk_Email > Course authorizations 2. Add a new course authorization and check the " Email enabled " checkbox with: Course id : Org/Course/CourseRun E.g: UNS/Py_001/201405 3. Go back to the instructor dashboard, instructor tab, the Email section will show up: Cool! \m/\m/\m/

Our team @ UNS  is deploying an edX-platform instance in a VPS. The openness of edX helps us a lot in saving resources and time to plan out the architecture of the project. But, because the edX-platform has gone so far, the code base has grown enormously with a bunch of technologies, It will be a challenge for us to master everything to operate the platform efficiently. There are pros and cons. It seems like everything will be OK the first time we look at edX. I meant the advantages of using Open edX. It is not only because of a huge community behind Open edX, but also because this is a great chance for us to learn and to create value for our Vietnamese education system. The edX platform seems to have a well documentations which helping us to deploy it easily and in a short period of time. With its great architecture design, the platform is mean to serve a lot of users. It meant a lot of educational opportunity for people. I'm not talking about the technologies of edX themse...

I'm pretty sure that we all know the famous online learning websites, Coursera, edX, Udacity... They have changed the education system of the world and created a new revolution about how people access the knowledge. Those MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform provide us the tools to study whatever subjects we like in a professional way just like we did it in college through the Internet. And there are more and more advantages of using those tools to achieving our studying targets, you name it. Today, I found that the edX team has opened their source code to the public and make clear about the edX project's vision: open platform for open-minded learner. They stated: