ol-openedx-uai-content-customization 0.2.0

An Open edX plugin to generate industry/length-specific UAI custom courses from video CSV data.

An Open edX CMS plugin that automates the generation of industry- and length-specific UAI course variants using direct Open edX modulestore APIs.

Version Compatibility

Supports Open edX releases from Sumac and onwards.

Installing The Plugin

For detailed installation instructions, please refer to the plugin installation guide.

Installation required in:

• CMS

Overview

For each unique (course_key, industry, duration) row group in the CSV the command clones the source course into a new UAI-specific key, removes every existing section from the clone, and rebuilds the content from the CSV data. This produces multiple industry- and length-specific variants per source course while preserving all course settings (grading policy, certificates, pacing, advanced settings) from the original.

Supported industry/length combinations:

Industry	Code	Length code	Length
Healthcare	HC	S	Short
Healthcare	HC	F	Full
Finance	F	S	Short
Finance	F	F	Full
Energy	E	S	Short
Energy	E	F	Full
Original	—	S	Short
Original	—	F	Full

Course Key Format

course-v1:ORG+NUMBER.<DURATION>[.<INDUSTRY>]+RUN

For the Original industry, no industry code is appended:

course-v1:UAI_SOURCE+UAI.3.S+1T2026   ← Original, Short
course-v1:UAI_SOURCE+UAI.3.F+1T2026   ← Original, Full
course-v1:UAI_SOURCE+UAI.3.S.HC+1T2026 ← Healthcare, Short

Course Structure

Each generated course has the following structure:

Course (<display name>)
├── Introduction  (section, optional)
    └── Introduction  (subsection)
        └── Introduction  (unit)
            └── Introduction  (HTML block)
└── Lectures  (section)
    └── <Video Title>  (subsection)
        └── <Video Title>  (unit)
            └── <Video Title>  (video block with edX video ID)

Usage

Prerequisites

You will need a single CSV file:

Processed videos CSV — produced by the video customization workflow. Required columns:

• course_key — the Open edX course key of the source course to clone (e.g. course-v1:UAI_SOURCE+UAI.2+1T2026). This course must already exist in the CMS modulestore before the command runs. The command validates all source keys up-front and aborts with an error if any are missing.

• industry — one of: Healthcare, Finance, Energy, Original

• duration — short or long

• video_file_name — file name of the video (for reference/display)

• video_title — display name for the subsection/unit/video

• module_name — used to build the course display name

• edx_video_id — the Open edX UUID for the video (exported from Studio / OVS after uploading the customized video)

• course_intro — optional introduction content for the generated course. If this value contains HTML tags, it is used as-is. If it is plain text, the command HTML-escapes it and wraps it in <p>...</p>.

  Intro resolution precedence for each generated (course_key, industry, duration) variant:

  1. exact match on (course_key, industry, duration)

  2. fallback to (course_key, industry) (industry-only intro, reused for both short and long)

  3. fallback to (course_key, Original industry) (reused across all industries and durations for that source course)

  If no intro is resolved, no Introduction section is created for that variant.

Running the Command

Run the management command from inside the CMS container (e.g. Tutor dev shell):

python manage.py generate_uai_course_versions \
    --processed-videos-csv /path/to/processed_videos.csv \
    [--username studio_worker] \
    [--dry-run]

Options

--processed-videos-csv

Path to the processed video metadata CSV file. Required.

--username

Username of the platform user under whose authority the courses are created. Defaults to studio_worker.

--dry-run

Print what would be created without writing anything to the modulestore. Use this to verify CSV mapping before committing.

How It Works

For each unique (course_key, industry, duration) group the command:

1. Validates all source course keys against the live modulestore before making any writes (fail-fast — aborts if any source is missing).

2. Clones the source course into the new UAI-specific key, inheriting all course settings.

3. Deletes every existing section (chapter) from the clone.

4. Rebuilds the content tree from the CSV rows:

   Course  (cloned — settings inherited)
   ├── Introduction  (optional, created only when ``course_intro`` resolves)
       └── Introduction  (subsection)
           └── Introduction  (unit)
               └── Introduction  (HTML block)
   └── Lectures  (section)
       └── <Video Title>  (subsection)
           └── <Video Title>  (unit)
               └── <Video Title>  (video block)

5. Publishes the course.

Note

Course creation is not atomic (MongoDB is not covered by Django transactions). If a run fails partway through, already-created courses remain; subsequent runs will skip them with a DuplicateCourseError warning.

Development

# Install dependencies
uv sync --dev

# Run tests (requires Open edX environment — see AGENTS.md)
./run_edx_integration_tests.sh --plugin ol_openedx_uai_content_customization --skip-build