nelc/edx-sysadmin: A plugin for SysAdmin panel of Open edX · GitHub

This is a django app plugin extracted from edx-platform which enables certain users to perform some specific operations in Open edX environment (which are described under Features section below). Earlier, Sysadmin Dashboard was a part of edx-platform, however starting from lilac release of Open edX the sysadmin panel has been removed and transitioned to as separate plugin.

NOTE: It is recommended that you use edx-sysadmin plugin with Open edX's lilac release and successors. If you wish to use the Sysadmin Dashboard with Open edX releases before lilac you don't have to install this plugin and can simply enable ENABLE_SYSADMIN_DASHBOARD feature flag in environment files (e.g lms.yml or lms.env.json) to access sysadmin dashboard features.

edx-sysadmin provides different features such as:

• Register Users:

  • You can register new user accounts with an easy to use form via Users tab.

• Delete Courses:

  • You can delete any course by using a course ID or directory via Courses tab.

• Git Import:

  • You can import any course maintained through a git repository via Git Import tab.

• Git Logs

  • You can check the logs for all imported courses through git via Git Logs tab.

• Git Reload (Not directly visible)

  • You can configure Github webhooks with this plugin to ensure reload/import of your courses on new commits

You have the following configuration properties to customize your plugin behavior:

• GIT_REPO_DIR: This path defines where the imported repositories will be places in storage. Default value is /edx/var/edxapp/course_repos.
• GIT_IMPORT_STATIC: This is a boolean that tells the plugin to either load the static content from the course repo or not. Default value is True
• SYSADMIN_GITHUB_WEBHOOK_KEY: This value is used to save either of sha256 or sha1 hashes. (This key is only used for Github Webhooks). Default value is None.
• SYSADMIN_DEFAULT_BRANCH: This value is used to specify environment specific branch name to be used for course reload/import through Github Webhooks. (This key is only used for Github Webhooks). Default value is None

• You can install the plugin into your Open edX environment using PyPI e.g. pip install edx-sysadmin or directly from github e.g. pip install https://github.com/mitodl/edx-sysadmin.git
• Once you have installed the plugin you can visit <EDX_BASE_URL>/sysadmin to access the plugin features.
• If you decide to make your own changes in the plugin you can go to Development Workflow section below.

Note: In some cases you might need to restart edx-platform after installing the plugin to reflect the changes.

For development you need to install this plugin into your Open edX instance.

# Clone edx-sysadmin to a directory which can be accessed from inside lms container i.e. ``src`` folder of
# Open edX devstack setup, which is present under root directory (sibling directory of edx-platform directory)
# and mapped at ``/edx/src`` inside edx-platform's lms container.
cd src
git clone git@github.com:mitodl/edx-sysadmin.git

# Open LMS shell
cd ../devstack
make lms-shell

# Remove edx-sysadmin plugin if already installed
pip uninstall edx-sysadmin

# Install plugin in editable mode
pip install -e /edx/src/edx-sysadmin

# If edx-sysadmin plugin doesn't reflect anything you can simply restart lms container (optional)
make lms-restart

After installation the plugin should be directly getting served through your edx-sysadmin cloned repo (present at src folder) and you can do live changes to the plugin and they will be reflected in your Open edX instance.

edx-sysadmin tests are dependent on edx-platform that's why they can only be run from inside of lms shell

# Enter LMS shell
cd devstack
make lms-shell

# Go to the directory where edx-sysadmin is mapped inside container i.e. ``/edx/src/edx-sysadmin``
cd /edx/src/edx-sysadmin

# Install requirements for running tests (you can also install requirements inside a virtual environment)
pip install -r ./requirements/quality.txt

# Run Pytest
pytest .

# Run black formatter
black --check .

# Run Pycodestyle
pycodestyle edx_sysadmin tests

# Run Pylint
pylint ./edx_sysadmin

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted. Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

Contributions are very welcome. Even though they were written with edx-platform in mind, the guidelines should be followed in all Open edX projects including this plugin.