Hello world! *Background*: OEP is a new (suggested) format for proposing changes to Open edX platform. More details: https://github.com/edx/open-edx-proposals/blob/master/oeps/oep-0001.rst
*Idea: *Allow XBlocks to be displayed in a course tab (like Progress, Discussion, etc.) *Motivation: * - In order to completely pull out discussions from edx-platform. discussion XModule is (almost) converted to an XBlock <https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/12582>. The next step would be to replace course discussion tab with discussion XBlock-based solution. - This might be useful for building instructor tools (example of a tool that could benefit from this <https://github.com/open-craft/problem-builder/blob/master/problem_builder/instructor_tool.py>). This is related to other thread on mailing list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/edx-code/Zd2sKQaMhHI> - kind of alternative implementation. *Tentative implementation details: * *tl;dr*: XBlockTab (working name) will be similar to existing StaticTab (powers "Custom Page" feature) and use nested XBlocks concept to allow using any XBlock (component?) in a Tab. Overall, it would work like that: - "Pages" page in Studio will have "Add XBlock Page" button added; this button will cause XBlockTab to be added to a course - In studio XBlockTab will expose UI for adding XBlocks and (most likely) other components (problems, video, etc.), similar to one found in course Outline editor (Unit page). At a glance it looks like it could be exact same UI, but it is not 100% clear yet. - Components added to an XBlockTab will be persisted to the modulestore using the same mechanism to allow nested XBlocks. - In LMS, XBlockTab will render its children (nested) components sequentially - much like "Unit" (aka vertical module). I'm about writing an OEP this week, so feedback and ideas are very welcome. Regards, Eugeny @Opencraft <http://opencraft.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/ad852782-b1e2-46ba-85bc-8d93db72048a%40googlegroups.com.
