Xblock Edflex

Use External Content component to add more resourse to you course. Find according to your needs, MOOC, video, podcasts or articles. A large choice of contents curated by Edflex technology to accompany you in creation or your trainings!

Instalation

Install package

pip install -e git+https://github.com/Learningtribes/edflex-xblock.git#egg=edflex_xblock

Set uping

In lms/env/common.py and cms/env/common.py add 'edflex' to INSTALLED_APPS .

"INSTALLED_APPS": [
    ...,
    "edflex"
],

According to settings configuration there are several options you can choose:

• Configure Site configuration using django admin

  

• Set up your configurations in json files. Add the following to XBLOCK_SETTINGS inside lms.env.json and cms.env.json:

  "XBLOCK_SETTINGS": {
      "EdflexXBlock": {
          "EDFLEX_CLIENT_ID": "client_id",
          "EDFLEX_CLIENT_SECRET": "client_secret",
          "EDFLEX_LOCALE": ["en"],
          "EDFLEX_BASE_API_URL": "https://base/api/url"
      }
  },
  

  Note: Site configurations have higher priority than configurations in settings (means that the first attempts to read config will be from site configurations and then from settings)

Then apply migrations using

./manage.py lms migrate --settings=<name settings>

Fetch edflex data

./manage.py lms fetch_edflex_data --settings=<name settings>

Running tasks

There are also two options to run the periodic tasks:

• First option is to use crontab

  0 1 * * 1 /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python /var/www/myapp/manage.py lms fetch_edflex_data --settings=<name settings>
  0 */1 * * * /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python /var/www/myapp/manage.py lms fetch_new_edflex_data --settings=<name settings>
  0 1 1 * * /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python /var/www/myapp/manage.py lms update_resources --settings=<name settings>
  

• Second option is to configure celery beat

  Ensure that celerybeat is running

  Set up variables in json files:

  "XBLOCK_SETTINGS": {
      "EdflexXBlock": {
          ...
          "EDFLEX_RESOURCES_FETCH_CRON": {
              "MINUTE": 0,
              "HOUR": 1,
              "DAY_OF_MONTH": "*",
              "MONTH_OF_YEAR": "*",
              "DAY_OF_WEEK": 1,
          },
           "EDFLEX_NEW_RESOURCES_FETCH_CRON": {
              "MINUTE": 0,
              "HOUR": "*/1",
              "DAY_OF_MONTH": "*",
              "MONTH_OF_YEAR": "*",
              "DAY_OF_WEEK": "*",
          },
          "EDFLEX_RESOURCES_UPDATE_CRON": {
              "MINUTE": 0,
              "HOUR": 1,
              "DAY_OF_MONTH": 1,
              "MONTH_OF_YEAR": "*",
              "DAY_OF_WEEK": "*",
          }
      }
  },
  

Using

Add edflex to the Advanced Module List for your course in Studio

Open Advanced Settings for your course in Studio ("Settings" drop down in the top nav -> "Advanced Settings"), and add "edflex" to the "Advanced Module List" value (i.e.: the value for "Advanced Module List" should be a JSON list, and that list should include "edflex").

Running tests

To run unit tests in Docker you have to open the shell

./manage.py test_system --setting=test test edflex.tests

Instead of test_system choose the system you want to test (cms or lms)