What’s on Your Open edX Wishlist?

[ali_hugo]

@sarina

For Teak, we are shipping CC Export. There are roadmap items for CC Import that need to be worked on:

[Proposal] Enabling Common Cartridge Course Archive Imports via the Open edX Import Page · Issue #420 · openedx/platform-roadmap · GitHub

Thank you!

@rploggen Pinging you so you don’t miss Sarina’s update above.

[rploggen (Roeland)]

Thanks! @sarina - where can I get more info on “teak” and the CC export?

[sarina (Sarina Canelake)]

Hi @rploggen - we write release notes for our releases here: Open edX Platform Release Notes — Latest documentation

Teak is being “cut” this week, and will be available to install in June. Between next week and June 9th, we’ll have release notes for Teak written in this space.

[Chelsea_Rathbun]

I reviewed my notes from recent interviews with educators, and here was one that came up a few times:

• ORA cannot be re-submit without the learner losing the work from their initial submission.

The other ones that came up are luckily related to product proposals we already have in queue or issues that we’re in the process of trying to solve for.
cc: @Asma_Ahmed

[ali_hugo]

@Chelsea_Rathbun Thanks for reviewing your interview notes and for bringing the ORA issue to my attention — I’ve added it to the list!

[rploggen (Roeland)]

Is Export in cc format (so not importing, but from openedx exporting an openedx course to a common cartridge format file) still on the teak releaseplan?? Just to double checck…

[jmakowski (Jenna)]

There’s been a little confusion around importing versus exporting. The tickets linked above are for a project to support the importing of common cartridge files onto Open edX, and improvements to the cc-olx pipeline. The use case was that potential clients were looking to move off of other LMS platforms and onto Open edX, and they needed an easy way to migrate their courses off other platforms onto Open edX. We do not currently have exporting on the roadmap (moving olx files off the platform and converting them to common cartridge). If this is of interest, it might be worth exploring whether the improvements made to the cc-olx pipeline could be leveraged or extended to do the reverse behavior.

[egordon (Elizabeth Gordon)]

An Open Source proctoring solution. Ideally, AI-powered and human-confirmed.

[ali_hugo]

@egordon Interesting idea - thank you!

I did a quick search and, while there are plenty of closed-source proctoring tools out there, open-source options seem pretty limited. Are there any services you’ve come across with features that you’d find useful?

Here are a few services I found in my search:

• Respondus LockDown Browser
• Talview (see this article on the blog)

[ali_hugo]

Quick Update

Feature Requests

We’re currently working on a plan to formalize how we collect and track feature requests from educators and other community members. I’m hoping to finalize the approach in the coming weeks and will share the outcome here. Once we’ve landed on a format, I’ll make sure to include the suggestions from the thread above.

Open Source Proctoring Solution

OpenCraft is putting forward a product proposal for an open source proctoring tool—big thanks to @egordon for raising the need! If you’ve had any experience with online proctoring, or have thoughts on features you’d like to see, please share them. Your input would be really helpful!

[Santiago]

@abylaikhan.suev.02

Hello everyone. Please add a learner activity chart that can also be viewed by course staff. I believe this is feasible, as there is already debug information available for staff to view individual students, but the current implementation is somewhat inconvenient. It would be great to have this in the form of a visual chart. This feature would also be beneficial for instructors, as it would allow them to confirm that a learner has been diligently working on assignments over the allotted time, rather than completing everything in a single night.

Hi @ @abylaikhan.suev.02 , thank you for sharing your idea! Could you please tell us more about the use cases where you see this learner activity chart being especially useful? I think this might be related to the existing proposal on Daily Streak Tracking. If you could share more details about how you’d like to use this chart, I’d be happy to include those scenarios in the proposal. Looking forward to hearing from you!

[abylaikhan.suev.02 (Abylaikhan)]

Hi @santiago,

I’ve reviewed the Daily Streak Tracking proposal, and I believe it would actually be a big step forward in the development of the platform. However, from my perspective, many instructors are not very tech-savvy, so a lot of buttons and plugins (including Cairn) are implemented in a way that’s quite complex for them.

It would be great if instructors had a user-friendly interface where they could easily track the progress of all students as well as individual ones — with all charts and visualizations already set up automatically.

It would also be nice to add information on what percentage of users completed the more difficult tasks. This would give students a sense of accomplishment, knowing they are among the few who managed to complete those challenges.

I really like how this is done on stepik.org. I’ve taken many online courses myself, and Stepik and Coursera are the platforms I spent the most time on.

[rploggen (Roeland)]

Oh, that’s a pity to hear. What would be the process to test the interest of the community for export functionality and -when sufficient support- add it to the roadmap?

[Cassie (Cassie Zamparini)]

Hi Roeland, I’m a Product Designer and OpenCraft and was interested in understanding your particular use cases for the export functionality? What are your goals / current pain points?

[rploggen (Roeland)]

Sure, thanks for your interest. Situation at TU Delft is this: Our extension school uses Edx and OpenEdx for organizing their MOOC’s. In their policy they want to keep all educational materials from the MOOC’s as open education resources available. For the Edx platform, this proves difficult, as this requires registration and sometimes payments to keep access.
To solve this we used to have our ocw.tudelft.nl website, a custom build solution. We manually extracted MOOC learning resources from Edx and publish this on the ocw platform - lot’s of manual effort. In addition: this platform is now end of life.
We are replacing it with a new platform, but in this platform we want to integrate an open source e-learning authoring module (such as Xerte, Moodle, or even Jupyterbooks). We are looking for ways to partly automate copying the MOOC content to this platform, using an open export functionality such as SCORM or Common Cartridge. At this stage OpenEdx only supports OLX, a proprietary export format. This export to an open format would also allow us to make the contents of the course fully reusable for others, independent of platform (making the materials truly FAIR).

We see two options:
1 - OpenEdx would also support exporting MOOC content in an open format
2 - We need to build our own conversion software to convert OLX to open format
It would of course be wonderful if option 1 could be considered in the community/roadmap deciders.
Let me know your thoughts! Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Roeland

[juancamilom (Juan Camilo Montoya)]

@rploggen

1 - OpenEdx would also support exporting MOOC content in an open format

as you mentioned in your earlier post, exposing the Open edX content via LTI (open edX as the provider) can also be a way to accomplish your goal.

[rploggen (Roeland)]

Partly true - we need to adapt the course contents, as MOOC’s will have specific data (specific deadline/dates, student responses, MOOC specific routines), that we do not want to publish as part of open courseware.