KAST (your Mooc)
What is it?
The Kast xblock is a powerfull and easy to use module for your OpenedX architecture. It allows professors to record their webcam and PDF directly from the studio. You want to reinvent way to create and consume your Mooc video? Sure you will love our xblock. Students will have not one but two sections, one with professor's cam and one with PDF. The PDF is automatically synchronized but students can choose to change the current page of PDF and go back or forward. This new way to present courses will transform your courses and help you to be more innovative !
Documentation
If you want to install Kast module, please refers to the "Installation Section" at the bottom. For the users documentation try the module first, we make it so easy that you will not need it.
Story
With the second prize for their Knotes module in the first french OpenedX Hackathon, the Kalyzee team wanted their revenge at the regular OpenedX Hackathon in Boston. Came with the project to improve their first project, they decided to switch on an awesome and crazy project in the last minutes : creating a video directly from OpenedX Studio. A really big idea (and challenge) that activated the Xtrem Programming mode of these crazy developpers ! Thirsty of efficient coding lines, they have done their best to produce this amazing module, and change the way we perceive what is a Mooc !
Authors
Ludovic Bouguerra and Anthony Gross for the development, Guillaume LAURIE for communication. All sponsored by the Massilia's EDTech startup Kalyzée.
Licensing
Please see the file called LICENSE.
Contacts
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Installation guide
Connect you to your VM with:
vagrant ssh.
Connect you with edxapp user
sudo su edxapp
Create an apps directory in /edx/app/edxapp to store the Kast app
- In /edx/app/edxapp with edxapp user create a directory my-apps
cd /edx/app/edxapp
mkdir my-apps
cd my-apps
Clone the Kast github repository in /edx/app/edxapp/my-apps
git clone https://github.com/Kalyzee/kast.git
Activate the openedx venv and install Kast
source /edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/bin/activate
cd kast
pip install -r requirements.txt
Restart your edX
cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
paver devstack --fast studio
Enabling in Studio
Login
To enable Kast into your course you have to:
- On a studio course main page go to Setting > Advanced Settings.
- Into the advanced module part, add "kast" into the array.
- Click on "Save changes"
Using Kast
In a unit:
Click on the advanced button in add new component.
Click on kast
Your Kast is fully loaded you can change your video by cliking on edit button on the top right of the previous picture.