Part of the Ask Nate Anything series, this was our May webinar where Nate explored ways to integrate Open edX with other systems.

1. Open edX &
Interoperability
May 3, 2016
Nate Aune
CEO/Founder
nate@appsembler.com
P: (617) 701-4331
Making Open edX play nicely with others

2. Agenda
● Who is Appsembler?
● What is Open edX?
● Means of integrating Open edX with other systems
● Examples of integrations
● Questions from you!

3. Who is Appsembler?
● leading Open edX solutions provider
● provide customization, implementation, hosting and support
● friends of edX Inc. (conf. sponsorship, hack days, referrals)
● headquartered in Cambridge, MA
● Customers: Microsoft, MIT Sloan, Penn State University, Open
University, Financial Times, Intersystems, Cloudera, Metalogix

4. 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
deliver engaging learning experiences.

5. Means of integrating Open edX with other systems
Courseware: XBlocks, LTI, JSInput. Future: SCORM, TinCan/xAPI, H5P
Single sign-on (SSO): OAuth2, SAML, Shibboleth, CAS, Office 365
APIs: programmatic enrollment, syndicating course catalog, mobile apps
Javascript widgets: Google Analytics, Intercom, Segment
Raw data dump: MySQL, MongoDB, tracking logs
Custom development: Integrating with Salesforce, Marketo, Infusionsoft

6. Examples of integrations
Video hosting providers - Youtube, Brightcove, Ooyala, Wistia, S3, etc.
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) - Cloudfront, Akamai, Fastly
Real-time video chat - Hangouts, Big Blue Button, WebEx, Gotomeeting
Analytics - Google Analytics, Segment, Adobe Site Catalyst, etc.
CRMs - Salesforce, Hubspot, Infusionsoft, Intercom
Marketing automation - Marketo, Intercom, Hubspot
Forums - Discourse, Piazza

7. Examples of integrations (continued)
Adaptive learning - Cerego, Knewton, SmartSparrow
Office Productivity Tools - Google Drive/Calendar, Microsoft Office Mix
E-Commerce - Cybersource, Stripe, Paypal, Magento
Other LMSes - Moodle, Canvas, Saba
Reporting - Excel, PowerBI, BigQuery, Hadoop

8. Embedding content

9. Embedding content or exercises
● Open Learning XML (OLX) (https://open.edx.org/blog/open-learning-xml-olx-format)
● IFrame XBlock (https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-ca/en/latest/exercises_tools/iframe.html)
● JSInput (https://open.edx.org/js-input)
● SCORM
● LTI (https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-ca/en/latest/exercises_tools/lti_component.html)
○ Embedding content that lives in another LMS
○ Using a 3rd party tool to embed an exercise

12. Exposing content

14. Programmatic enrollment

19. Roles defined in
Salesforce

20. Salesforce integration

21. Create a certificate
Add signatories

22. User’s email
address is
nate@nate.com
User nate@nate.
com is a partner
Nate Aune
nate@nate.com
Register
Registration form Is “nate.com” an
employee, customer or
partner?
Only shows
courses for
partners
Course listing

23. Motivation &
learner engagement

24. Learning Path
Learners can enroll in a
learning path
Auto-enrolls them in a
sequence of courses
Tracks which course they
need to take next
Now provided through Open
edX XSeries

25. Welcome
Reminder
Congratulations
Marketo integration with Open edX

26. Intercom integration with Open edX

27. Send targeted messages either in-app or by email

29. Syndicating
course catalog

30. Powered by
Open edX?
Actually it’s a
Drupal site!

32. openedx.slack.com

33. Course discovery API endpoint
courses.edx.org/api/courses/v1/courses
API Documentation
https://openedx.atlassian.
net/wiki/display/AC/Course+Discovery+A
PI
Complete description of planned
Integration on edX.org
https://openedx.atlassian.
net/wiki/display/AC/Course+Discovery+a
nd+Inter-IDA+Messaging

34. Past and future Open edX webinars
Roughly every month, we host free webinars with a
15 min presentation and 15 minutes for questions.
ANA #1 ANA #2 XBlocks Dogwood Interoperability Eucalyptus
2015-10-28 2016-02-09 2015-03-08 2016-04-05 2016-05-02 mid-July
http://www.appsembler.com/resources
See past and future webinars at:

35. “Open edX & Interoperability” Stanford University http://conf.openedx.org
June 14, 3:30pm - 4:10pm

36. Join us for the next webinar in July
TOPIC: What’s new in Eucalyptus
Questions?

37. More info
LTI consumer
https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-
staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/lti_component.html
LTI provider
https://open.edx.org/blog/open-edx-lti-tool-provider
Course discovery
https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/AC/Course+Discovery+and+Inter-IDA+Messaging