DCAS Open EdX Documentation

DCAS Open EdX Documentation

  • Docs

›Advanced Management

Creating a Course

  • Create a New Online Course
  • Set Course Schedule & Details
  • Add Sections, Subsections & Units
  • Managing Unit and Component
  • Adding Videos
  • Adding HTML
  • Adding Discussions
  • Adding Problems

    • Adding Problems
    • Problem Types
    • Drag and Drop
    • Pointing on a picture
  • Adding Images and Figures
  • Uploading Static Content
  • Course Visibility
  • Creating pages
  • Grading
  • Commonly Used Advanced Settings

Running a Course

  • Managing Certificates
  • Common Instructor Dashboard Tasks
  • Managing Course Discussions

Advanced Management

  • Importing / Exporting Courses
  • Change a user’s password
  • Inactivate / Activate a User
  • Understanding User Roles
  • Set a user to staff or superuser
  • Server Tasks

    • SSH into Server
    • Set or Change a Password

Migration

  • Migrate EdX (Single-Server)
  • Migrate the Theme

Migrate MySQL

  • Migrating MySQL Database off of Single-Server

Migrate Mongo

  • Migrating Mongo Database off of Single-Server

Configuration

  • Enable and Update Additional Languages
  • Enable Downloads from Instructor tab in LMS
  • Configure and Enable Certificate
  • Configure Open Response Assessment

Configure Ecommerce

  • Basic Ecommerce Setup
  • Setup JWT Keys
  • Getting Course Details on Checkout Page
  • Troubleshoot Ecommerce

Discovery Setup

  • Configure Discovery

Comprehensive theming

  • Setup Comprehensive Theming

Microsites

  • Setup Microsites
  • Common Microsite Configurations

API

  • Setup API
  • Common APIs Demonstration
  • Customizing an API
  • DCAS API Handoff for LMS

Xblock

  • Xblock introduction
  • Xblock installation and uninstallation
  • Xblock Development

Scaling the architecture

  • Scaling Mongo
  • Scaling MySQL
  • Dedicated Storage Configuration Outline
  • Azure Storage Configuration

    • Azure Storage Configuration
    • Basic Configuration
    • Private Blob Configuration

SCORM

  • SCORM Azure Storage

Trouble-Shooting

  • Forgot admin username or password
  • Server error
  • Can't reach your site
  • Problems with RabbitMQ
  • Can't login to LMS or CMS
  • Locate the error
  • Jobs are stucking
  • Mongodb not working
  • Forums Breaking Issue
  • Check open edx services status
  • Problem with mysql
  • Can't receive email
  • CSRF token error

Inactivate / Activate a User

  1. Log into [platform name]/admin. This is the Django Admin panel.

    Admin panel

  2. From Auth, click Users.

  3. Click on the user for whom you’d like to deactivate/activate.

  4. Within Permissions, check or uncheck the “active” checkbox.

    Acivate / Deactivate User

  5. Click “Save” at the bottom of the page.

    Save

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