A Survey of XBlocks for extending Open edXMarch 8, 2016

Nate Aune

CEO/Foundernate@appsembler.comP: (617) 701-4331

Agenda

● Who is Appsembler?

● What is Open edX?

● What are XBlocks?

● Examples of XBlocks

● Where to find more XBlocks?

● Ned’s presentation on XBlock technical architecture

● Questions from you!

Appsembler

● leading Open edX solutions provider

● provide customization, implementation, hosting and support

● headquartered in Cambridge, MA● participate in hack days and receive referrals from edX Inc.● Microsoft, MIT Sloan, Penn State University, Financial Times,

Intersystems, Cloudera, Metalogix

What is Open edX?

Open edX platform is a free and open source course management system that is used to author and deliver online courses.

The Open edX platform is used all over the world to host MOOCs and SPOCs.

What are XBlocks?

XBlocks are the building block for the Open edX courseware. Pluggable components that let you build new navigational and interactive experiences for learners.

XBlocks that ship with Open edX

● Molecular editor● Polls● Surveys● Annotations● Staff Graded Assignments● Google Calendar● Google Drive

● Content experiments● Conditional module● Word cloud● Recommender● Microsoft Office Mix● Oppia● many more in the docs

JS Molecular Editordemo

StaffGradedAssignmentdemo

Peer Assessment(ORA2)demo

Problem with adaptive hintdemo

Surveys demo

Annotationsdemo

GoogleCalendardemo

GoogleDrivedemo

Recommenderdemo

Oppiawww.oppia.org

Third party XBlocks (contributed by the community)

● 3D Model Viewer● Animation XBlock● Choose your own Adventure● Audio XBlock● PDF● Brightcove Video XBlock● Ooyala Video XBlock● Carousel XBlock● DoneXBlock (mark activity done)● flashXBlock (embed Flash files)

● Drag and Drop XBlock● GradeMe● Group project XBlock● LeaderBoard XBlock● Image Explorer XBlock● Mathematica Cdf XBlock● Voice recognizer● Problem Builder● Pie Chart XBlock● Rating XBlock

3D model viewerGithub repo

AnimationGithub repo

BrightcoveGithub repo

Image ExplorerGithub repo

Cerego via LTIDocumentation

Open edX as an LTI consumer

XBlocks directory - http://bit.ly/xblocks291 repos with “XBlock” on Github

Thank you!@appsembler

H5P.org

Polls demo

CarouselGithub repo