Upgrading Content Editors

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Date: April 26, 2022 1:30pm UTC+1

Speaker: Connor Haugh

Intro

• Glossary

  • xblocks: unit of learning content created by a course team like a problem or video

  • V2 Xblock Editors: improved content authoring experience

• Objective

  • Implement a new editor for a xblock you care about it

  • Understand value of V2 xblock editor

Principles

• Why? Current editing experience is very bad.

• Costs include development (to fix bugs), author (experience bugs), and brand

• From the audience: course content creators tolerate learner bug complaints, but will choose other products if they are the ones who experience the bugs.

• Built to be an npm plugin that can be dropped into many different MFEs

• Will be in the Olive Open edX release but parts of it already in Nutmeg

• Follows architectural principle of chipping away from edx-platform to reduce the ball of mud

Implementation

• GitHub - openedx-unsupported/frontend-lib-content-components: [Moved to openedx/frontend-app-course-authoring] A library of high-level components for content handling (viewing, editing, etc. of HTML, video, problems, etc.), to be shared by multiple MFEs.