edx_exams

Service providing access to exam information

Overview

The exam service is meant to surface any and all information related to Open edX exams. The service is meant to function in parallel to the existing in-platform plugin, edx-proctoring.

Documentation

(TODO: Set up documentation)

Development Workflow

One Time Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:edx/edx-exams.git
cd edx-exams

# Set up a virtualenv using virtualenvwrapper with the same name as the repo and activate it
mkvirtualenv -p python3.8 edx-exams

# Install/update the dev requirements
make requirements

# Start LMS in devstack from your local devstack directory
make dev.up.lms

# Return to the edx-exams repo directory and provision credentials:
bash local-provision-edx-exams.sh

# Run edx-exams locally
python manage.py runserver localhost:18740 --settings=edx_exams.settings.local

Every time you develop something in this repo

# Activate the virtualenv
workon edx-exams

# Grab the latest code
git checkout main
git pull

# Install/update the dev requirements
make requirements

# Run the tests and quality checks (to verify the status before you make any changes)
make validate

# Make a new branch for your changes
git checkout -b <your_github_username>/<short_description>

# Using your favorite editor, edit the code to make your change.
vim …

# Run your new tests
pytest ./path/to/new/tests

# Run all the tests and quality checks
make validate

# Commit all your changes
git commit …
git push

# Open a PR and ask for review.

Setting up an exam and proctoring tool

Instructions can be found in this document

This is a living document while this repo is in development and will be converterd to a public format on release.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome. Please read How To Contribute for details. Even though they were written with edx-platform in mind, the guidelines should be followed for all Open edX projects.

The pull request description template should be automatically applied if you are creating a pull request from GitHub. Otherwise you can find it at PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md.

The issue report template should be automatically applied if you are creating an issue on GitHub as well. Otherwise you can find it at ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email security@edx.org.

Getting Help

If you're having trouble, we have discussion forums at https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.

Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack invitation, then join our community Slack workspace.

For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.