Eucalyptus release of Open edXSeptember 28, 2016

Nate Aune

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

Agenda

● Who is Appsembler?

● What is Open edX?

● What are Open edX releases?

● What’s new in Eucalyptus?

● Questions from you!

Appsembler

● leading Open edX solutions provider

● provide customization, implementation, hosting and support

● headquartered in Cambridge, MA● Friends of edX Inc. (conf. sponsorship, hack days, referrals)

● Corp. customers: Microsoft, Cloudera, NXP, NYIF, Intersystems

● HigherEd customers: MIT Sloan, Penn State, Open University

Left: Appsembler team at Open edX conf 2016Top: Appsembler team dinner & bowling (Boston)

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 by organizations all over the world to host MOOCs and SPOCs (small private online courses).

What are Open edX releases?

Stable, tested releases including upgrade instructions. New releases every 4-6 mos.

Aspen Birch Cypress Dogwood Eucalyptus FicusOct. 28, 2014 Feb. 24, 2015 Aug. 13, 2015 Feb. 11, 2016 Sep. 2, 2016 mid-Dec

What’s new in Eucalyptus

Staff Grading Options for ORA

Per learner analytics for Insights

E-commerce enhancements

Self-paced course configuration

Subsection prerequisites

Bookmarks

Teams

Bulk email members of a cohort

Customize the registration form

Course navigation improvements

Mobile app improvements

Peer instruction XBlock

Completion XBlock

Badges for custom course events

Staff Graded Options in Open Response Assessments

Students cananswer the questionwith an open ended response

(and even uploadto complementtheir answer)

Now from aninstructor’s view,instructors can give points basedon a rubricand add commentsfor the student.

Now back to thestudent view,they can see theirgrade and thecomments fromthe instructor.

Per learner analytics (in edX Insights)

An Impactful Dashboard

Learner Analytics

Observe

Interpret

Act

E-commerce (using Otto)

Self-paced course configuration

By default, course pacing is instructor-paced

Now you can specify a course to be self-paced

Subsection prerequisites

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Teams

Create a new team in this topic

More info

Official announcement from edXhttps://open.edx.org/blog/eucalyptus-new-release-chew

Release noteshttps://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-release-notes/en/latest/eucalyptus.html

Join us for the next webinar in October!PROPOSED TOPICS: Mobile apps, Certificates,

Customer case studies

Questions?

Course navigation improvements

Peer instruction XBlock

Completion XBlock

Bulk email cohorts

Custom registration form

custom-form-app/custom_reg_form/models.py