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Overview

It's a Django plugin available for Open edX to use NodeBB discussion forum as its own discussion app. This plugin works along with NodeBB plugin i.e. nodebb-plugin-openedx-discussion.

Features

• Provides a fully functional embed view of NodeBB as course discussions in edX.
• Synchronization of Open edX with NodeBB to keep the discussion experience seamless.
  • Whenever a new user is created in edX application, the same user is also created in NodeBB application and the same goes for the courses i.e. whenever a new course is created, a corresponding category is created in NodeBB application to contain all of the course discussions in one place.
  • It also provide a Django management command to sync existing users and courses of edX with NodeBB.
• Session sharing is handled using JWT authentication.
• User privileges are managed using NodeBB groups.
  • Course related discussions are only accessible to the enrolled users of the course.

How To Contribute

To contribute, please make a pull request in this repositry on Github: openedx-edly-discussion. If you have any question or issue, please feel free to open an issue.

Contributors

• Muhammad Zeeshan
• Osama Arshad
• Danial Malik
• Hamza Farooq
• Muhammad Umar Khan
• Tehreem Sadat
• Hassan Tariq