FLflaviojuvenal·Dec 27, 2021
The EDX platform is open-source, it's a complex Django project: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform
In Ask HN: Good Python projects to read for modern Python?edx
edx-platform
Python2013–2021
edx / edx-platform
edx-platform
The 2U fork of Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
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The 2U fork of Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesHave you looked at https://github.com/edx/edx-platform? It's one platform that's established and open source. It might not be lightweight enough for your needs though.
In Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?This coursera course was taken down, but it is now up and running at lagunita.stanford.edu [0], which uses edx's open source platform [1]. The same happened to other stanford courses previously on coursera, you can find them here [2], including Compilers, Automata Theory, and Convex Optimization.
[0] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:ComputerScie...
[1] https://open.edx.org/ https://github.com/edx/edx-platform
[2] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses
In Mining of Massive DatasetsNesting selectors ties the css to your markup. These styles are not reusable components, but one-offs for that particular snippet of html. Look how bad it can get:
https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/lms/static/s...
It's basically replicating the html nesting.
In CSS PurgeOpen edX, the stack powering edX.org, is a very interesting (and useful!) project to contribute to. The community and the reviewers are very friendly. There are byte-sized tasks available to get started, and you will get guidance on the tickets and PRs. It's a large Django code base, and changes you make impact millions of students within a week - as real and concrete as it gets. : )
https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING...
http://bit.ly/edxbugs
http://open.edx.org/
http://github.com/edx/edx-platform/
In Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?You can actually create edX classes with existing resources. The xblock spec is pretty flexible, and the existing blocks can be used with a lot of different types of content.
There are also a ton of companies that host open edX instances, which let you make your own courses. Several offer free trials -- here's a list: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/List-of-Open-edX-se... . There's a nice open source ecosystem forming. I know at one point, edX was going to open edge.edx.org and let anyone make courses, but don't know where that's at now.
Your platform has differentiators from edX, but these aren't necessarily them.
In Classmill: Create online classes with links, images, videos and filesLooks interesting, can you talk about how this compares to the edx platform? https://github.com/edx/edx-platform
In Classmill: Create online classes with links, images, videos and filesI was actually referring to https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/graphs/contributors , didn't check the Authors file. It's very cool to have been a part of this.
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