This is the presentation from our March 2016 webinar, part of our Ask Nate Anything series. For this webinar, we were joined by Ned Batchelder of edX to discuss exactly what XBlocks are and how they can be used in extending Open edX's functionality.

1. A Survey of XBlocks
for extending
Open edX
March 8, 2016
Nate Aune
CEO/Founder
nate@appsembler.com
P: (617) 701-4331

2. Agenda
● Who is Appsembler?
● What is Open edX?
● What are XBlocks?
● Examples of XBlocks
● Where to find more XBlocks?
● Ned’s presentation on XBlock technical architecture
● Questions from you!

3. Appsembler
● leading Open edX solutions provider
● provide customization, implementation, hosting and support
● headquartered in Cambridge, MA
● participate in hack days and receive referrals from edX Inc.
● Microsoft, MIT Sloan, Penn State 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 host
MOOCs and SPOCs.

5. What are XBlocks?
XBlocks are the building block for the Open
edX courseware.
Pluggable components that let you build new
navigational and interactive experiences for
learners.

7. XBlocks that ship with Open edX
● Molecular editor
● Polls
● Surveys
● Annotations
● Staff Graded Assignments
● Google Calendar
● Google Drive
● Content experiments
● Conditional module
● Word cloud
● Recommender
● Microsoft Office Mix
● Oppia
● many more in the docs

8. JS Molecular
Editor
demo

9. Staff
Graded
Assignment
demo

10. Peer Assessment
(ORA2)
demo

11. Problem with
adaptive hint
demo

12. Surveys
demo

13. Annotations
demo

14. Google
Calendar
demo

15. Google
Drive
demo

16. Recommender
demo

17. Oppia
www.oppia.org

21. Third party XBlocks (contributed by the community)
● 3D Model Viewer
● Animation XBlock
● Choose your own Adventure
● Audio XBlock
● PDF
● Brightcove Video XBlock
● Ooyala Video XBlock
● Carousel XBlock
● DoneXBlock (mark activity done)
● flashXBlock (embed Flash files)
● Drag and Drop XBlock
● GradeMe
● Group project XBlock
● LeaderBoard XBlock
● Image Explorer XBlock
● Mathematica Cdf XBlock
● Voice recognizer
● Problem Builder
● Pie Chart XBlock
● Rating XBlock

23. 3D model viewer
Github repo

24. Animation
Github repo

25. Brightcove
Github repo

26. Image Explorer
Github repo

27. Cerego via LTI
Documentation

28. Open edX as an LTI consumer

29. XBlocks directory - http://bit.ly/xblocks
291 repos with “XBlock” on Github

30. Thank you!
@appsembler

32. H5P.org

33. Polls
demo

34. Carousel
Github repo