The XBlock python API is documented at http://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/xblock/en/latest/xblock.html

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These are all attributes/methods that you can override/implement on an XBlock:

allows_rescore(self):

Boolean value: Can this problem be rescored? Default: True

author_view(self, context):

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Used in GradesTransformer among other places.

graded

Used in `GradesTransformer` among other places. TBD: What does this do?

has_submitted_answer(self):

Returns True if the problem has been answered by the runtime user.

explicit_graded

Used in `GradesTransformer` among other places. TBD: What does this do?

def get_progress(self):

Return a `progress.Progress` object that represents how far the student has gone in this module. Must be implemented to get correct progress tracking behavior in nesting modules like sequence and vertical.

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• add_aside

• bind_for_student

• get_asides

• get_child_descriptors

• get_content_titles

• get_explicitly_set_fields_by_scope 

• get_required_module_descriptors

• graded - used for subsections only, to indicate whether they are graded or not.

• explicit_graded

• system

• xblock_kvs

  
  

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