Dogwood release of Open edXApril 5, 2016

Nate Aune

CEO/Foundernate@appsembler.comP: (617) 701-4331

Agenda

● Who is Appsembler?

● What is Open edX?

● What are Open edX releases?

● What’s new in Dogwood?

● Questions from you!

Appsembler

● leading Open edX solutions provider

● provide customization, implementation, hosting and support

● headquartered in Cambridge, MA● Friends of edX Inc. (conf. sponsorship, hack days, referrals)

● Microsoft, MIT Sloan, Penn State University, Financial Times, Intersystems, Cloudera, Metalogix

What is Open edX?

Open edX platform is a free and open source course management system that is used to author and deliver online courses.

The Open edX platform is used all over the world to host MOOCs and SPOCs.

What are Open edX releases?

Stable, tested releases including upgrade instructions. New releases every 4-6 mos.

Aspen Birch Cypress Dogwood Eucalyptus2014-10-28 2015-02-24 2015-08-13 2016-02-11 mid-July

What’s new in Dogwood

Partial credit

Preview course as a specific learner

New LTI XBlock

HTML certificates

E-commerce service

iOS Mobile App

edX Insights (Analytics Devstack)

Search feature

Student notes

Comprehensive theming

Timed exams

Partial credit

New LTI behavior

New LTI XBlock

Viewing a course as a specific student

Creating a web certificate

HTML Certificates

Create a certificateAdd signatories

Buy verified certificate

Verifying student identity

E-commerce for instructors

Bulk enrollment codes

Setting up the paid course

Create new paid courses in the e-commerce service

Paid course settings

● Course type: Audit, Verified, Professional Education, Credit

● Price for course seat● Upgrade deadline● Certificate deadline

Reporting on paid courses

New mobile app features

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWLRNGeMgJY

edX Insights (analytics)

Search feature

Student notes

More info

Official announcement from edXhttps://open.edx.org/blog/newest-open-edx-release-dogwood-now-available

Release noteshttps://edx.readthedocs.org/projects/open-edx-release-notes/en/latest/dogwood.html

Join us for the next webinar on May 3TOPIC: Open edX and Interoperability

Questions?