openedx/openedx-platform
Openedx Platform
Open edX is a web-based learning management system and online course delivery platform that provides a complete environment for hosting, delivering, and managing online courses. It includes a dedicated course authoring studio for creating, organizing, and publishing course materials and assessments, along with a learning analytics dashboard for viewing visualizations and metrics of course data to analyze learner performance and engagement.
The platform supports educational content structuring through tools for assembling course materials, and offers course data analytics capabilities for analyzing performance and engagement. It is built on a Django-powered monolith architecture with a Celery-based async task queue for offloading long-running operations, and uses an XBlock plugin architecture to extend course components with modular rendering, storage, and grading logic.
The system provides multi-tenant site configuration for supporting multiple course instances and organizations, and exposes platform functionality through REST APIs secured by OAuth2 authentication. It stores core user and course metadata in MySQL while offloading large student state and event data to MongoDB, and emits structured analytics events through the EdX Platform Event Bus for external data pipelines.