Hi all,
According to this blog and the manuals (Public Course Content: in Ironwood - Open edX) it is possible to make course outlines or even most of the course content open - e.g. accessible without an account.
Does anyone have used this option? I would love to see a working example.
Thanks in advance.
Roeland
Hi Roeland. One of MIT’s open edX instances is set up with public content: https://openlearning.mit.edu/
You can view any of the courses there without an account. If and when you choose to create an accont, any progress you have made in your session is saved. The Machine Learning course is very popular: Course | 6.036 | MIT Open Learning Library
Peter Pinch
MIT Open Learning
I followed Enabling Public Course Content — Latest documentation to enable this for Open edX Demo Course | Open edX Training but the course outline/content doesn’t actually show up when I view from an Incognito window, which I find odd.
Hmm, 4.10. Enabling Public Course Content — Installing, Configuring, and Running the Open edX Platform documentation also talks about a central setting, did you enable that as well?
“The public course content feature is enabled in the Django LMS Admin with the seo.enable_anonymous_courseware_access waffle flag.”
Yep, I enabled that first. You can see on the About page there is a View Course button:
But when you click View Course you don’t see anything:
Hmm, strange. I am not a OpenEdx techie unfortunately, hope someone else has advice!
Unfortunately I am!!! I worry that the feature was developed in Ironwood (2019!!!) and may not have experienced any love since then (this is the first time I’m hearing of the feature), and thus may no longer work properly. @pdpinch I’m curious to learn more about your experience with the feature.
I’m pretty sure the system that I mentioned is running Juniper. It’s actually maintained on our behalf by Edly.
If I had to guess, the Learning MFE may not support this mode. I believe you can still disable the Learning MFE up through Teak, but after that it will always be enabled and the legacy UI won’t be available any more.
At the TU Delft we are exploring if openedx could be the basis of our open courseware platform(next to our mooc platform).
The requirement to explore course content without an account is crucial. So if openedx specialists can confirm that the current version does or does not support this public course content: much appreciated!
Hi @rploggen - I will investigate this after the Open edX conference and my holiday the week following.
@sarina Replying to your question from What’s on Your Open edX Wishlist? - #42 by sarina here:
I believe it should be running Sumac - @maxim @gabor Could you confirm the version https://courses.opencraft.com/ is currently running?
Thanks @antoviaque - if you can see my previous posts in this thread, I followed the instructions in Enabling Public Course Content — Latest documentation to set the instance flag and then set the visibility in my courses on training.openedx.io (Sumac) but I’m not actually seeing any public content, so I am wondering if the feature works.
But… huh. It works for this course: Course | but not the Demo course. I wonder if something else needs to be enabled or something?
@antoviaque Yep, this instance is running Sumac.
@sarina It looks like we can access the course home on the demo course without being logged in: Course | - none of the courses pages appear though, so there does seem to be something with the content of the demo course that interferes with the feature. Maybe their publication status or groups? That course uses a lot of the Open edX features, so there might also be a bug with one of them?
