The document outlines the features and updates in the Eucalyptus release of Open edX, presented by Nate Aune, CEO of Appsembler, on September 28, 2016. Key enhancements include staff grading options, learner analytics, e-commerce improvements, and mobile app upgrades, aimed at improving the user experience for both instructors and students. Appsembler is highlighted as a leading provider of Open edX solutions, supporting various corporate and higher education clients.

1. Eucalyptus release
of Open edX
September 28, 2016
Nate Aune
CEO/Founder
nate@appsembler.com
P: (617) 701-4331

2. Agenda
● Who is Appsembler?
● What is Open edX?
● What are Open edX releases?
● What’s new in Eucalyptus?
● Questions from you!

3. 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)
● Corp. customers: Microsoft, Cloudera, NXP, NYIF, Intersystems
● HigherEd customers: MIT Sloan, Penn State, Open University

4. Left: Appsembler team at Open edX conf 2016
Top: Appsembler team dinner & bowling (Boston)

5. 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 by organizations all over the world
to host MOOCs and SPOCs (small private online courses).

6. What are Open edX releases?
Stable, tested releases including upgrade
instructions. New releases every 4-6 mos.
Aspen Birch Cypress Dogwood Eucalyptus Ficus
Oct. 28, 2014 Feb. 24, 2015 Aug. 13, 2015 Feb. 11, 2016 Sep. 2, 2016 mid-Dec

7. What’s new in Eucalyptus
Staff Grading Options for ORA
Per learner analytics for Insights
E-commerce enhancements
Self-paced course configuration
Subsection prerequisites
Bookmarks
Teams
Bulk email members of a cohort
Customize the registration form
Course navigation improvements
Mobile app improvements
Peer instruction XBlock
Completion XBlock
Badges for custom course events

8. Staff Graded Options in
Open Response Assessments

10. Students can
answer the question
with an open
ended response
(and even upload
to complement
their answer)

12. Now from an
instructor’s view,
instructors can
give points based
on a rubric
and add comments
for the student.

13. Now back to the
student view,
they can see their
grade and the
comments from
the instructor.

14. Per learner analytics
(in edX Insights)

16. An Impactful Dashboard

18. Learner Analytics
Observe
Interpret
Act

19. E-commerce (using Otto)

30. Self-paced course
configuration

31. By default, course pacing is instructor-paced

32. Now you can
specify a
course to be
self-paced

33. Subsection prerequisites

35. Bookmarks

36. Bookmarks

38. Teams

40. Create a new team in this topic

43. More info
Official announcement from edX
https://open.edx.org/blog/eucalyptus-new-release-chew
Release notes
https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-release-notes/en/latest/eucalyptus.html

44. Join us for the next webinar in October!
PROPOSED TOPICS: Mobile apps, Certificates,
Customer case studies
Questions?

45. Course navigation
improvements

48. Peer instruction XBlock

53. Completion XBlock

57. Bulk email cohorts

59. Custom registration form

60. custom-form-app/custom_reg_form/models.py