Open edX Birch Release Standard Features
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The document outlines the default features available in the latest Open edX release, including sign up/registration roles, content management, courseware components, reporting and analytics, and certification. It also lists additional features requiring customization and links to the edX roadmap for future developments.
Open edX Birch Release Standard Features
- 1. edX Platform Default Feature Set edX Birch Release This document outlines standard features available in the latest Open edX Release 1. Signup/Registration 2. Content Management 3. Courseware 4. Reporting and Analytics 5. Available Features Requiring Customization 6. Certification 7. edX Roadmap 1. Signup/Registration Different user types with different roles are supported on the edX default platform. These are outlined as follows. ID Feature Description 1.1 Role: Course Student (Student) Course student can enroll into courses that appear in their dashboard once registered. They have access to Courseware, Course Info, Discussions 1.2 Role: Course Staff (Admin) Course staff can help you manage limited aspects of your course. Staff can enroll and unenroll students, as well as modify their grades and see all course data. Course staff are not automatically given access to Studio and will not be able to edit your course. 1.3 Role: Instructors (Admin) Instructors are the core administration of your course. Instructors can add and remove course staff, as well as administer discussion access. 1.4 Role: Beta Testers (Admin) Beta testers can see course content before the rest of the students. They can make sure that the content works, but have no additional privileges. 1.5 Role: Discussion Admins (Admin) Discussion admins can edit or delete any post, clear misuse flags, close and reopen threads, endorse responses, and see posts from all cohorts. They CAN
- 2. add/delete other moderators and their posts are marked as 'staff'. 1.6 Role: Discussion Moderators (Admin) Discussion moderators can edit or delete any post, clear misuse flags, close and reopen threads, endorse responses, and see posts from all cohorts. They CANNOT add/delete other moderators and their posts are marked as 'staff'. 1.7 Role: Discussion Community TAs (Admin) Community TA's are members of the community whom you deem particularly helpful on the discussion boards. They can edit or delete any post, clear misuse flags, close and reopen threads, endorse responses, and see posts from all cohorts. Their posts are marked 'Community TA'. 2. Content Management ID Feature Description 2.1 edX Content Management Studio Central authoring tool with advanced course content creation and management features 3. Courseware Courseware is accessed via the learning experience as well as via the studio creation experience. ID Section Component type 3.1 Advanced Support and annotations to existing text 3.2 Discussion Global Discussion board 3.3 HTML Text Announcement
- 3. Anonymous User ID Full Screen Image Iframe Raw HTML Zooming Image 3.4 Problem basic Blank Common Problem Checkboxes Dropdown Multiple Choice Text Input 3.5 Problem advanced Blank advanced problem Circuit Schematic Builder Custom JS Display and Grading Custom Python Evaluated Input Drag and Drop Image Mapped Input Math Expression Input Molecular Structure Peer Assessment Problem with Adaptive Unit 3.6 Video Video player support: native support for youtube 3.7 Open Source xBlocks XBlocks are extensions/plugins enabling features beyond the outofthebox experience. These require additional customization. Mentoring Image explore
- 4. Simulation Polls & Surveys Office Mix Google drive xBlock: Ability to use google spreadsheets as an xblock so users can collaborate. 3.8 Textbook Ability for instructor to create a Textbook for a course where they create Chapters and upload PDF's as a chapter. 3.9 Custom Content Cohorting Ability to cohort groups of users and associate custom content within a course.Could be applied to units in courses and discussion boards. 3.10 Basic Theming Header and Footer: Change Logo Change site font style. Change site font color Homepage (logged out state): Change background asset 4. Reporting and Analytics ID Feature Description 4.1 User Info 4.1.a Age Available on instructor dashboard 4.1.b Gender Distribution Available on instructor dashboard 4.1.c Level of Education Available on instructor dashboard 4.2 Courseware Data 4.2.a Overall Grade Distribution Available on instructor dashboard 4.2.b Student Gradebook Available on instructor dashboard 4.2.c Student Profile information Available on instructor dashboard 4.2.d Lesson Grade Distribution Available on user progress page 4.3 Site Tracking 4.3.a Session Data Google analytics
- 5. 4.3.b Pageviews Google analytics 4.3.c Region/Location Google analytics 4.4 Video Tracking 4.4.a Region YouTube 4.4.b Total video clicks YouTube 5. Available Features Requiring Customization ID 5.1 Branding 5.1.a Advanced theming 5.2.b Custom Homepage 5.3.c Advanced SEO 5.2 Teaching and Learning Tools 5.2.a Course UI Customization 5.2.b Course Certification 5.2.c Custom exercises (xblocks) 5.3 Integration 5.3.a External LMS Integration 5.3.b SSO (Single SignOn) 5.3.c LTI 5.4 Mobile 5.4.a Native Mobile App 5.4.b Responsive UI 5.5 Data and Analytics 5.4.a Insights (edX Reporting Dashboard) 5.4.b Advanced Reporting 5.4.c Advanced Reporting Dashboard
- 6. 5.6 Social 5.6.a User Profiles 5.6.b Social Integration (Linkedin/fb/twitter) 5.6.c Badging 5.6.d Course User Map 5.7 Extending Platform CMS System 5.7.a Custom metadata Integration with LMS 5.7.b Custom User Registration 5.8 Ecommerce 5.8.a Paid Course 5.8.b Paid Certificate Course 5.9 Video 5.9.a Third Party Video Integration 6. Certification Open edX Supports certificates upon course completion. Certificates are based on the overall Grade in the class. There are verified certificates, and honor certificates. Certificate setup and generation requires some platform customizations. 7. edX Roadmap Open edX is in a constant state of development, and new features are being released every few weeks. This is one of the benefits of an open source platform, where users can incorporate new features developed on the platform and this way remain current in terms of features and technology. The edX Roadmap is available here: https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PROD/Product+Roadmap