France Université Numérique

Life in the Avant-garde

Régis Behmo (@regisb)
Open edX Conference, October 12 2015 | Wellesley, MA

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France Université Numérique (FUN)

• 193 courses
• 61 universities
• 1M course enrollments
• 420k users from 213 countries

France Université Numérique (FUN)

France Université Numérique (FUN)

http://hack.openedx.fr/

France Université Numérique (FUN)

https://github.com/openfun/

France Université Numérique (FUN)

https://github.com/openfun/

$ grep openfun edx-platform/AUTHORS 
Régis Behmo <regis.behmo@openfun.fr>      # @regisb
Sylvain Toé <sylvain.toe@openfun.fr>      # @lazybird
Richard Moch <richard.moch@openfun.fr>    # @rmoch 
Julien Paillé <julien.paille@openfun.fr>  # @jpaille

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Upstream integration

$ cd edx-platform && git log | grep openfun
    Merge pull request #9590 from openfun/openfun/fix-dropdown-problem-template
    Merge pull request #8725 from openfun/regisb/fix_xblock_class_loading
    Merge pull request #7474 from openfun/rmoch/fix_forum_action_button_issue
    Merge pull request #7997 from openfun/rmoch/i18n_problem_explanation_title
    Merge pull request #7101 from openfun/fun/xblock-authoring-fix-settings-import
    Merge pull request #6560 from openfun/openfun/studio-csrf-error
    Merge pull request #6082 from openfun/edx/translate-enrollment-emails

$ cd edx-ora2 && git log | grep openfun
    Merge pull request #640 from openfun/edx/multiple-fileupload-backends
    Merge pull request #681 from openfun/openfun/fix-vagrantfile

Plugging FUN edx-platform

1. pip install fun-cmd

2. fun lms.dev run

   • sys.path.append("/edx/app/edxapp/fun-apps/")

   • /edx/app/edxapp/fun-apps/fun/envs/lms/dev.py

Patching Open edX

The FUN devstack

• https://github.com/openfun/fun-boxes
• http://files.alt.openfun.fr/vagrant-images

https://github.com/openfun/fun-logstash

XBlocks: Graded external assignment

https://github.com/openfun/edx-gea/

XBlocks: Graded external assignment

https://github.com/openfun/edx-gea/

XBlocks: Password-protected, time-limited container

https://github.com/openfun/password-container-xblock/

XBlocks: Password-protected, time-limited container

https://github.com/openfun/password-container-xblock/

XBlocks: Videojs player

Explicit dependencies on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

def some_view(request):
    url = get_upload_url()
    return render(request, "some_template.html", {"url": url})

def get_upload_url():
    conn = connect_to_s3()
    return conn.generate_url()

def get_upload_url():
    from importlib import import_module
    name = getattr(
        settings, "STORAGE_BACKEND",
        "storage.s3" # default storage
    )
    backend = import_module(name).Backend()
    return backend.generate_url()

Extended course properties

class CourseFields(object):
    advanced_modules = List(...)
    foo = List(...)
    bar = String(...)
    ...    # Course-specific properties
    advanced_properties = Dict(...)

class Course(django.models.Model):
    course_id = django.models.CharField(...)
    custom_property = django.models.CharField(...)
    ...
                    

Microsites

• No microsite in studio
• Course creation
• User subscription

What's next?

Themes, course filtering, course search...

What's next?

Hackathon!

Get in touch

Developer

regis@openfun.fr

Developer

julien@openfun.fr

Product owner

laurent@openfun.fr

Slides available at
https://github.com/regisb/openedx-conference-2015