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This is intended to be a list of community-built features and tools, including both ones that were merged upstream as well as ones that exist outside the core repositories but can be pulled into any Open edX install.

Please only add items that are in the process of being built or complete. This is not the place for ideas or proposals where work has not yet started, but is intended to give everyone insight into what others are actively working on or have worked on.

In planning / in progress

Developer/contributor	Project / proposal (link or short description)	Current status	Next action	Target (upstream/contrib)	Documentation / More info
Organization or individual names	Project name and link to source or in progress documentation		Is there a next step planned for this?	Upstream: this has been or will be merged upstream to a core maintained repository. This may represent the current or intended state of the feature. Contrib: this will exist in an externally maintained repository for the foreseeable future.
RaccoonGang	Multi-proctoring	Needs review	Reopen PR and resume review process	Upstream (TODO)
Microsoft, Harvard	Adaptive engine integration	Technical discovery		Contrib
OpenCraft + McKinsey	Course progress API for Open edX	Product + technical review	Evaluation underway by Learner team	Upstream	Completion API technical design doc
OpenCraft + McKinsey	API for offline XBlocks in native mobile apps	Draft	OpenCraft and McKinsey are responding to tech design feedback	Upstream	Discovery: XBlock API Support
Credo	/wiki/spaces/OPEN/pages/129335701			Upstream
Credo	Ability to copy chapter from one course to other in studio		Product feedback provided, waiting for response	Upstream	New button in Studio near each chapter that gives ability to copy the content to some other courses
OpenCraft	https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/15464		Awaiting product feedback	Upstream	This change adds two optional features designed to ease learner confusion through the account activation and enrollment process. Currently, when learners haven't yet activated their accounts, the Learner Dashboard shows both a warning about not being activated and the text below about not being enrolled in any courses. Many of our client's students don't read the first warning, get confused, and then email them about not being enrolled in the right courses. Screenshots are in the PR description.
Appsembler	Badges app update		Technical review
MIT	Rapid Response XBlock		Upstream supporting changes to lms. Expand support to basic problem types beyond multiple choice.	Upstream	Rapid Response is an xBlock aside that allow instructors to view real-time graphs of student responses to edX multiple choice questions. This can be used to replicate the functionality of student response system within the open edX ecosystem.
Appsembler	Figures lightweight reporting app for Open edX	Initial production use, beta testing and feature improvement	Feature completion (Course progress details), community participation	Contrib	https://github.com/appsembler/figures Please see the main readme file in the Figures Github repository

Done (live/dead)

Developer/contributor	Project / proposal (link or short description)	Current status	Next action	Target (upstream/contrib)	Documentation / More info	License
Organization or individual names	Project name and link to source or in progress documentation		Is there a next step planned for this?	Upstream: this has been or will be merged upstream to a core maintained repository. This may represent the current or intended state of the feature. Contrib: this will exist in an externally maintained repository for the foreseeable future.		License AGPLv3 Apache GPL None
Appsembler (developer) / OpenCraft (upstream contributor)	Bulk enrollment API endpoint		EdX product and/or tech review	Upstream (merged July 14 2017)	Ability to supply multiple courses for enrollment per-request. Ability to specify users for enrollment using emails (without usernames). Ability to enroll non-existent users in courses before they register. Ability to specify whether or not to email users informing them that they've been enrolled per-request.	AGPLv3
MIT	https://github.com/mitodl/edxcut			Contrib	edxcut is an open source package for performing automated unit tests of answer box grading correctness, across all problems, in a live, open edX course instance. edxcut also allows programmatic creation, reading, updating, and deletion (CRUD) of edX course content, via its edxapi API interface, which mimics an instructor interacting with an OpenEdX Studio instance.	MIT
Appsembler/Raccoon Gang	Video XBlock	Phase 1 (Feature parity with the built-in edX video module for Brightcove) done	Evaluation underway by edX	Contrib	https://www.appsembler.com/blog/deliver-videos-securely-open-edx-courses-new-video-xblock/	GPLv3
Perpetual Learning	Proctoring xBlock (with ProctorU)			Contrib		AGPLv3
Appsembler	SCORM XBlock			Contrib	https://www.appsembler.com/blog/getting-scorm-content-into-open-edx-with-the-scorm-xblock/	None
Raccoon Gang	SCORM XBlock			Contrib	https://raccoongang.com/blog/scorm-2004-xblock-raccoon-gang/	None
Perpetual Learning	Cross-course Discussion	Done		Contrib		N/A
eduNEXT	Flow control Xblock		Contribute it back to edX	Contrib		None
eduNEXT	HTML emails		Contribute it back to edX	Contrib		AGPLv3
Swiss MOOC Service/eduNEXT	SEB Open edX plugin			Contrib	Offer secure e-assessments with Safe Exam Browser (SEB) in Open edX: https://seb-openedx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/	AGPLv3
OpenCraft	"Results Visibility" setting for CAPA problems			Upstream (merged June 1, 2017)		AGPLv3
OpenCraft	Discussion forum support in CCX courses			Upstream (merged Sep 12, 2016)		AGPLv3
OpenCraft	Insights support for CCX courses			Upstream (merged Sep 19, 2016)		AGPLv3
OpenCraft	Problem Response Report in Insights
OpenCraft	Problem Builder XBlock			Upstream		AGPLv3
OpenCraft	Better OpenStack/Swift deployment support in edx/configuration			Upstream		AGPLv3
OpenCraft	Automatic Studio Editing UI for XBlocks			Upstream (merged Mar 23, 2015)		AGPLv3
OpenCraft	Custom Registration Form Fields			Upstream (merged Jan 5, 2016)	Customize Registration Page docs	AGPLv3
OpenCraft	OpenCraft Instance Manager			Contrib	A Django application to deploy and manage Open edX instances on OpenStack virtual machines. It can be used to manage Open edX production servers (it is used for the Open edX Hosting service, OpenCraft.Hosting), and can monitor pull requests and then automatically create Open edX sandboxes, to help with development.	AGPLv3
OpenCraft	update_anonymous_user_ids.py (management command)			Contrib	When you need to change the SECRET_KEY of an Open EdX installation, this management command can completely update all the anonymous IDs, so preserve data that is keyed to the anonymous IDs/secret keys, such as ORA2 data that would otherwise be lost. Details.	AGPLv3
Stanford	Open edX Certificates (forked from core)			Contrib	A modern, maintained fork of the edx-certificates rep	AGPLv3
MIT	Grades API			Upstream	REST API to access grades data
Credo	Instructor dashboard / staff grading improvements			Upstream	Largely replaces SGA and merges it into ORA2