Name / link | Contributor / Contact | Status | Description | License |
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XBlock Name Credit | Who currently maintains the XBlock? Link to github account. | Live (Maintained) Live (Abandoned) In Progress Dead | This XBlock does something, and you should explain it here. | License AGPLv3 |
| to include and view 3D .obj models within a course | None | ||
| a block for testing the implementation of the XBlock runtime | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | A tabular problem type, where students have to fill in some of the cells of a table. |
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Live (Maintained) | creating a simple Chose Your Own Adventure style simulation | AGPLv3 | ||
@Piotr Mitros (Deactivated) |
| Shows students an animation they can go through. There is a set of images with corresponding text, and a slider for going through these images | AGPLv3 | |
@Piotr Mitros (Deactivated) |
| This is a simple XBlock which will play audio files as an HTML5 audio element. If unavailable, it will fall back to an embed element | AGPLv3 | |
In Progress | This XBlock allows for the inclusion of videos that are hosted on Azure Media Services inside of Open edX courses. The XBlock supports subtitles/captions via WebVTT standards as well as interactive transcripts. | MIT | ||
Live (Maintained) | Allows for easy inclusion of Bibblio content recommendation module as a courseware component. It supports auto-ingestion and user differentiation. | AGPLv3 | ||
Dead | to include Brightcove videos within a course | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Abandoned) | Adds in very basic coloured boxes around some HTML. | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Abandoned) | A template for adding large images with captions, copyright attributions and long descriptions. | AGPLv3 | ||
| XBlock to provide carousel of multimedia instructional content including images, video, documents.This XBlock currently supports three web hosted media formats in a unified media carousel for course content presentation. This XBlock also provides a way to integrate instructional media with a separate workspace that could be used for hands-on activities. |
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Live (Maintained) | An OpenedX XBlock to communicate with ChatGPT in your courses. | AGPLv3 | ||
Click here for the demo |
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| This is our second XBlock to combine learning content and practice space within the same window. The first XBlock provided a multimedia carousel to host learning contents here. This XBlock along with providing a multimedia carousel, focuses on embedding a separate url of a web-enabled workspace for hands-on activities. In the example below, we demonstrate this XBlock with terminal emulator using open source Gateone application. | AGPLv3 |
Live (Abandoned) | Allows students to reveal HTML content when the button is pressed. | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Abandoned) | Allows students to self-select their cohort. Our use case uses this as a language selector in conjunction with Content Groups, for dual-language courses. Only tested as far as Dogwood. | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | allows students to recognize their voice and can see the what they spoken in text format. It supports multiple languages. This version works best on Google Chrome. | AGPLv3 | ||
In Progress | a prototype of the discussion XModule as a separate, pure XBlock. Functional, but requires patches to edx-platform at the moment | AGPLv3 | ||
Giulio Gratta | Live (Maintained) | Lets a student mark they've finished an activity. | AGPLv3 | |
Dead | exercise which asks students to drag and drop text or image elements into different buckets according to their content | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | enhanced version of the Image Explorer XBlock. Due to incompatible data model with v1, the original XBlock still remains | AGPLv3 | ||
| Embed Flash (.swf) files in your course | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | The Flow Control Xblock provides a way to display the content of a unit or to redirect the user elsewhere based on compliance with a condition that evaluates the submission or the score of a problem or a set of problems. | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | enables embedding of Google Documents or Google Calendar within a course | AGPLv3 | ||
Giulio Gratta | In Progress | Button to send request to server to grade user. | AGPLv3 | |
Live (Abandoned) | to allow students to work as a group of 2-5 on a group project, with peer grading between projects and team members. Functional, but requires patches to edx-platform at the moment | AGPLv3 | ||
In Progress | second generation Group Project XBlock: allow students to work as a group of 2-5 on a group project, with peer grading between projects and team members, embedded discussions support and richer project navigation. Functional, but requires patches to edx-platform at the moment. | AGPLv3 | ||
Hastexo |
| enables course authors to define and integrate arbitrarily complex computing environments running on private or public clouds, which auto-suspend when not in use. Currently supports OpenStack Heat. | AGPLv3 | |
Live (Maintained) | Provides ability to host and play H5P content in open edX | MIT | ||
Live (Maintained) | Display tooltips on top of an image within the course content | AGPLv3 | ||
Giulio Gratta, Steven Burch | Live (Maintained) | A fullscreen image modal XBlock. | AGPLv3 | |
Live (Maintained) | A molecular structure problem type |
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Live (Abandoned) | allows to display an arbitrary number of top scoring threads in an inline discussion, as well as top scores in a graded exercise | AGPLv3 | ||
| Xblock to visualice cdf(mathematica) files | None | ||
Live (Abandoned) | This XBlock allows to automate the workflow of real-life mentoring. Superseeded by the v2 of the XBlock, called "Problem Builder". | AGPLv3 | ||
Giulio Gratta | Live (Maintained) | XBlock for transcribing manuscripts using MUFI font. | None | |
DEAD | allows for the embedding of lectures hosted on Office Mix directly into a course | MIT License | ||
Live (Maintained) | to include Ooyala videos within a course. It supports transcripts, overlays (to place raw text or html content at a specific moment in your video) and player tokens (to secure your video content using a token with an expiration time) | AGPLv3 | ||
@Sean Lip (Unlicensed) | Live (Maintained) | allows embedding of an Oppia exploration within courseware | Apache | |
Live (Maintained) | Version 2 of the Open Response Assessor Project. Provides functionality for peer assessment, self assessment, student training | AGPLv3 | ||
| XBlock to visualice paella/matterhorn videos | GPL | ||
| XBlock to visualize PDFs | GPL | ||
| Another XBlock to embed PDF, with XBlock title and download buttons | GPL | ||
| Course component (Open edX XBlock) that provides a Personality Test | None | ||
| to include a pie char within a course | None | ||
OpenCraft | Live (Maintained) | enables a course author to create survey/poll elements to get feedback from students. Poll XBlocks have one question, and a series of answers. Survey XBlocks have several questions. Now incorporated into edx-platform natively! | AGPLv3 | |
Julia Hansbrough | Live (Abandoned) | Enables you to embed Twitch plays Pokemon | None | |
Live (Abandoned) | A very simple button to print the page. Does nothing more than pressing CTRL+P would, so requires a print-friendly theme. Exists entirely because a lot of students don't seem to realise that they can print webpages without a button. | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | Set of interactive exercises, and tools to automate the workflow of real-life mentoring within an edX course. It supports: free-form answers (textarea) which can be shared accross different XBlock instances (for example, to remind a student of an answer he gave before), MCQs (multiple choice questions), MRQs (multiple responses questions), rating scales, progression tracking (allowing to check that the student has completed the previous steps before allowing to complete a given XBlock instance). | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | Use this xBlock to enable proctored exams within Open edX. Supported on Dogwood release onwards. Uses the ProctorU proctoring service behind the scenes. | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Maintained) | This XBlocks allows to integrate PuMuKIT2 Video Platform into Open edX to manage videos or even record personal videos. | AGPLv3 | ||
| For creating a Qualtrics Survey. | AGPLv3 | ||
| Rating and comment the video unit | GPL | ||
Live (Maintained) | Easy to use front-end area for course staff to add course uploads for sharing with students. Staff can just drag files onto the LMS instead of having to use Studio to upload files. Integrates with S3 storage. |
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Live (Maintained) | displays School Yourself lessons | AGPLv3 | ||
Live (Abandoned) | A basic template for activity signposts to instruct students in a task to complete, alongside an icon. | AGPLv3 | ||
| Provides a web-based terminal emulator through which students can send commands to a server via ssh. The server details and credentials are set by the tutor in the XBlock settings and are not visible to the student. | None | ||
Jason Bau |