Open edX courseware leverages two powerful technologies for locating and interacting with course content, both of which were developed internally. Opaque Keys describe the location of course content both in terms of browser access via url as well as internally in the application source code. XBlocks generically describe individual units
Since at least August-2020 it’s become possible to implement custom code for the Open edX platform without forking the edx-platform repository. Not only is it possible but it’s considered best practice to organize both your custom code as well as any platform modifications into separate pip-installable projects. This article, which
The Open edX platform code base includes a comprehensive set of REST API’s that cover everything from viewing the course catalogue, to managing users, to administering your e-commerce system, and more. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to enable and interact with this powerful set of API’s that you
WordPress is a fast and highly effective platform for hosting a REST API for a variety of use cases, especially if your API endpoints serve content like images or filterable, categorized blocks of text. This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to implement a production-ready REST API in only a few hours,
Learn how to add custom code to the login sequence of your Open edX installation by leveraging Django Dispatch Signals.
Learn how to scale your Open edX platform by migrating the Memcached service to its own remote Ubuntu server running on AWS EC2.
There are many benefits to moving your user data from the Ubuntu file system to AWS S3 cloud storage. It’s also pretty easy to do since Django handles the technical details, and the guys at edX have parameterized everything so that you only need to make some adjustments to the
AWS’ Relational Database Service (RDS) is a superior alternative to running MySQL locally on your Open edX platform. This simple how-to guide shows you how to migrate the service.
Learn how to reset the MySQL root password in your Open edX platform.
Learn the principals of scaling the Open edX Learning Management System, growing from a single-server evaluation-only installation to a production always-up instance with thousands of concurrent users.
