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| Stanford | Bulk E-Mail (PR-555) | |
| This allows instructors to send e-mail to themselves, course staff, and students from the instructor dashboard. | ||
| 3rd Party Auth (PRs-2736, 3450, 3553) | ||
| This adds requirements, an auth module, a settings mechanism, and an API for auth providers. | ||
| Harvard | Mentoring XBlock (PR-2814) | |
| This added the mentoring XBlock to requirements and installed apps. | ||
| Stanford | Email Content History Viewer (PR-4451) | |
| Previously, instructors could only view task information about e-mails they sent, but now they can view entire e-mails. | ||
| MITx | Release edX-jsme 1.0 (OSPR-43) | |
| This added the jsme package to edX, which provides the molecular struture problem type for capa. | ||
| Stanford | Certificate Improvements (Multiple OSPRs) | |
| In a series of approximately 25 pull requests to the certificates repo, the Stanford developers released to the open-source community all of the certificate generation code they currently use. | ||
| Queen Rania Foundation | Right to Left (WIP) | |
| This is part of an ongoing project between QRF and edX to support Right to Left (RTL) text support. | ||
| Harvard | Annotation Tools (OSPRs-150, 158) | |
| One part of this changes the color and adds borders to annotated images. The other fixes a bug found when using the “share without saving” option for annotation. | ||
| Stanford | Supoprt and Tests for Adding a Reset Button to Units (OSPR-146) | |
| This decouples “reset” functionality from “randomization” functionality in capa problems. | ||
| Stanford | Fixed Continuation Related Pep-8 Issues (OSPR-197) | |
| This changeset resolves 105 PEP8 (python style guide) issues. | ||
| Stanford | Limit File Upload Size to GridFS (OSPR-168) | |
| This PR puts a limit on the size of files that course staff can upload to MongoDB. | ||
| SchoolYourself | SchoolYourself XBlock (OSPR-232) | |
| These XBlocks display iframes and send data back and forth between edX and School Yourself. | ||
| Stanford | XBlock User Service (OSPR-379) | |
| This implements support in the XBlock SDK for the user XBlock service. | ||
| OpenCraft | Event Tracking for Forums Events (OSPR-82) | |
| This tracks events for student activity analytics reports. | ||
| MIT | Staff Graded Assignments XBlock (OSPR-337) | |
| This enables students to upload assignment files, and for instructors to download and grade them. | ||
| OpenCraft | XBlock Settings Service (OSPR-427) | |
| This allows XBlocks access to Django settings. | ||
| OpenCraft (for Harvard) |
Mentoring XBlock (OSPRs-401, 419, 422, 427) | |
| This cleans up technical debt while adding new functionality to the Mentoring XBlock. | ||
| MIT | Custom Courses X (OSPR-351) | |
| This allows for a course (or portions of a course) to be reused with a small groups of students. | ||
| Stanford | Answer Distributions for First vs Last Problem Attempt (OSPRs-413, 414, 415) | |
| This is an upgrade to answer_dist collection task. | ||
| Feedback Fruits (with edX) | Creative Commons (OSPR-536) | |
| This allows for custom Creative Commons licensing for course content. To learn more about the significance and use of Creative Commons licensing, read the feature report. | ||
