hi guys, thanks very much for your elaborate answers. This was exactly the information I was looking for. Very clear. Thanks again, Thieme
On Friday, 26 August 2016 23:25:45 UTC+2, cdodg...@gmail.com wrote: > > One other notable difference that many people will see is that edX.org as > a website has a distinct Course Catalog/Marketing/Corporate site which is > very edX specific. That is not made open source, for no other reason - I > suppose - than because it is so specific to edX as an organization. Open > edX has it's own Course Catalog and Marketing pages inside of it which the > community uses and customizes. > > As a rough estimate, as an end-user you'll see edX's use of Open edX on > the courses.edx.org and Studio/Insight (for course staff) domains, and > the custom marketing site on www.edx.org and blog.edx.org. > > Other things to note that some features that are in Open edX are turned > off on edx.org. Also many (if not most) of the xBlocks in the ecosystem > are not installed/running on edx.org. > > So - in a certain way - Open edX is a superset of features than what is > running on edx.org. > > That's a rough approximation. Hope that's helpful. > > - Chris > > On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 9:52:55 AM UTC-4, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote: >> >> Hi Thieme, >> >> I'm still new to EdX, so apologies if this isn't exactly right. Here's >> how I'd put it: EdX is an organization, Open edX is a piece of >> software/platform. EdX.org runs on Open edX. We typically update EdX.org >> to the most recent version once a week. This is different from most other >> groups that use Open edX, who have a less frequent update schedule, so >> you'll likely see new features on EdX.org before elsewhere, but everyone >> has access to the same code. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Shauna >> >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Thieme Hennis <thieme...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Sorry if this is a duplicate, I could not find a clear answer in this >>> forum (or online): >>> >>> Is the latest Open edX version similar/same to the edx.org instance? >>> >>> Or is edX the Gold Edition, with different features to the open source >>> OpenEdx instance? >>> >>> thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> 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/c95608bb-72e8-4bea-b608-18dbc1a860cb%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/c95608bb-72e8-4bea-b608-18dbc1a860cb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> -- 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/f9c239d2-697b-444c-9bba-851efa66315d%40googlegroups.com.
