Richie site factory plugin for Tutor

This is a plugin to integrate multiple Richie sites, the learning portal CMS, with Open edX. The integration takes the form of a Tutor plugin.

Dependencies

You should have create your own Richie site factory, go to https://richie.education/docs/cookiecutter/ to know more about it.

Installation

pip install tutor-contrib-richie-site-factory
tutor plugins enable richie-site-factory

Running the Richie plugin will require that you rebuild the "openedx" Docker image:

tutor config save
tutor images build openedx

This step is necessary to install the Richie connector app in edx-platform.

Then, the platform can be launched as usual with:

tutor local quickstart

This plugins allows to run multiple Richie instance sites. So you have to configure each site factory sites so each can be run inside Tutor.

Gettting started

Once your Richie platform is up and running, you will quickly realize that your learning portal is empty. This is because you should first create the corresponding courses and organizations from inside Richie. To do so, start by creating a super user:

tutor local run richie python manage.py createsuperuser

You can then use the credentials you just created at http(s)://yourrichiehost/admin. In development, this is http://courses.local.overhang.io/admin.

Then, refer to the official Richie documentation to learn how to create courses and organizations.

You may also want to fill your learning portal with a demo site -- but be careful not to run this command in production, as it will be difficult to get rid of the demo site afterwards:

# WARNING: do not attempt this in production!
tutor local run richie-<mysite> python manage.py create_demo_site --force

Configuration

This Tutor plugin comes with a few configuration settings:

• RICHIE_RELEASE_VERSION (default: "v1.27.1") - the default version of the demo site
• RICHIE_HOST (default: "courses.{{ LMS_HOST }}") - the marketing domain name at which the Open edX will be configured
• RICHIE_MYSQL_ROOT_USERNAME - (default: {{ MYSQL_ROOT_USERNAME }})
• RICHIE_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD - (default: {{ MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD }})

Other are per site, replace the {site} with the name of your site:

• RICHIE_{site}_HOST - (default: {site}.{{ LMS_HOST }})
• RICHIE_{site}_DOCKER_IMAGE - (default: {{ DOCKER_REGISTRY }}fundocker/richie-demo:{{ RICHIE_RELEASE_VERSION }})
• RICHIE_{site}_BUCKET_NAME - (default: richie-{site}-uploads)
• RICHIE_{site}_MEDIA_BUCKET_NAME - (default: richie-{site}-media)
• RICHIE_{site}_ELASTICSEARCH_INDICES_PREFIX - (default: richie-{site})
• RICHIE_{site}_CACHE_DEFAULT_BACKEND - (default: base.cache.RedisCacheWithFallback)
• RICHIE_{site}_CACHE_DEFAULT_LOCATION - (default: redis://{{ REDIS_HOST }}:{{ REDIS_PORT }}/2)
• RICHIE_{site}_CACHE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS - (default: {})
• RICHIE_{site}_DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE - (default: {site}.settings)
• RICHIE_{site}_DJANGO_CONFIGURATION - (default: Production)
• RICHIE_{site}_DB_ENGINE - (default: django.db.backends.mysql)
• RICHIE_{site}_DB_HOST - (default: {{ MYSQL_HOST }})
• RICHIE_{site}_DB_NAME - (default: richie_{site})
• RICHIE_{site}_DB_PORT - (default: {{ MYSQL_PORT }})
• RICHIE_{site}_DB_USER - (default: richie_{site})
• RICHIE_{site}_MYSQL_INIT - (default: true)
• RICHIE_{site}_MYSQL_ROOT_USERNAME - (default: {{ RICHIE_MYSQL_ROOT_USERNAME }})
• RICHIE_{site}_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD - (default: {{ RICHIE_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD }})
• RICHIE_{site}_ELASTICSEARCH_HOST - (default: {{ ELASTICSEARCH_HOST }})
• RICHIE_{site}_EDX_BASE_URL - (default: https://{{ LMS_HOST }})
• RICHIE_{site}_EDX_JS_BACKEND - (default: openedx-hawthorn)
• RICHIE_{site}_AUTHENTICATION_BASE_URL - (default: https://{{ LMS_HOST }})
• RICHIE_{site}_AUTHENTICATION_BACKEND - (default: openedx-hawthorn)
• RICHIE_{site}_OAUTH2_CLIENT_AUTHORIZED_PATH - (default: None)

If you need to completely customize the production environment, you can use the Tutor patch richie-{{site}}-production-env.

These defaults should be enough for most users. To modify any one of them, run:

tutor config save --set RICHIE_SETTING_NAME=myvalue

For instance, to customize the domain name at which Richie will run:

tutor config save --set "RICHIE_HOST=mysubdomain.{{ LMS_HOST }}"

Development

Bind-mount volume:

tutor dev bindmount richie /app/richie

Then, run a development server:

tutor dev runserver --volume=/app/richie richie

The Richie development server will be available at http://courses.local.overhang.io:8003.

Troubleshooting

Do you need help with this plugin? Get in touch by opening a GitHub issue: https://github.com/fccn/tutor-contrib-richie-site-factory/issues/

Release

1. Increase the version in __about.py file, eg. 18.2.0.
2. Open a PR and merge it.
3. Then create a Git Tag with for the same version, v18.2.0

git tag v18.2.0
git push origin v18.2.0

License

This software is licensed under the terms of the AGPLv3. It was originally developed by Overhang.io with a sponsorship of France Université Numérique. Currently, it's maintained by NAU - FCCN|FCT.