Stanford has adopted an alternative discussion forum software called Piazza https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/StanfordOnline/OpenEdX/Demo/courseware/Discussions/Discussion_0/
And provided instructions for how to integrate it with Open edX: https://s3.amazonaws.com/piazza-materials/LTI-Setup/AddingPiazzatoedX.pdf MIT also has this integration with Discourse, but I've never tried it so I don't know how well it works. https://github.com/mit-teaching-systems-lab/discourse-edx-lti And instructions are here: https://github.com/mit-teaching-systems-lab/discourse-for-moocsters On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 4:40:52 AM UTC-8, Antonello L. wrote: > > Hello, > I hope this is the right place for feedbacks on edX platform. > > This thread is about its software. > > I really appreciate that it can link discussion with actual content at the > finer scale, lesson or exercise. > On the other hand if you read a bit of forums that compare edx with > coursera or udacity you will read that first complain for edx is its forum > software. It is really (on my subjective opinion) old fashion, ugly, > difficult and not much powerful (aside the already cited advantage of > proximity discussion/content). > > Is there any plan to refactor it to enable more feature while also > improving user friendyness (e.g. discourse, S.O...) ? It would really > deserve it! > > (as side comment, MathJax seems not to work in the android app, maxing > really useless the app for math-rich courses) > > Best regards, > Antonello Lobianco > -- 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/aedc1969-fa1b-4d23-8cc8-1ea533afd9cb%40googlegroups.com.
