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General conference information
May 23 - 26, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Project day time and location
Friday May 26, 2017
Universidad Carlos III Madrid Leganes campus
Room details TBA
Attendance
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Ideas
Idea: Title for the project
Explanation: A few details about what you hope to accomplish and what the work might look like
Necessary Skills: What do people need to know to work on this?
Point Person: Probably you! If you're proposing this or interested in taking lead on making sure it happens, write your name here.
Excited: Add your name here if you're really excited about this project and want to work on it.
Interested: Add your name here if you think you might want to work on this project, or want to hear more about it.
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Improve Static file Handling during Studio Authoring | It takes seven steps to upload a file (image, pdf, whatever) and place it in a course. Let's cut it down to 3. Resurrected from last year's Hackathon, Hackathon the 13th: Part III | HTML, JS, Python. Maybe Coffeescript if we're unlucky. | (deprecated) Pinch (Unlicensed) | ||||||||
Open EdX xblock plugin for course interlinking, based on the conceptual connections and semantic web principles | We have xblock plugin that allows to extract key words from educational content of the course and map it on the ontology. This way we can enrich courses with semantic data, interlink them and reuse their content | HTML, JS, Python, SPARQL, RDF | Aleksei Romanov (Unlicensed) and ДмитрийВ (Unlicensed) from ITMO University | ||||||||
Allow high-stakes exams to be taken by creating a secure exam mode | For high-stakes exams you would need a feature to restrict access to assessments in Open edX, so a secure kiosk mode (lock down) browser needs to be used to display this assessment. We would like to discuss how to achieve this and develop such an integration with the open source freeware SafeExamBrowser (SEB). | Inside knowledge about Open edX. Can this be achieved by an XBlock or has the core code to be modified?
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, to talk about the ideal implementation of this feature | Maarten (Unlicensed) | Aneesha Bakharia (Unlicensed) |
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