Learning Management Systems
(LMS) are great tools for hosting and playing interactive online
courses and MOOCs.
However, if you need to build a complete website with flexible content to aggregate your courses, in several languages and from different sources, you will soon need a CMS.
At "France Université Numérique", we wanted to build an OpenSource portal with Python
and
Django
. That's why we built Richie
on top of DjangoCMS, one of
the best CMS on the market, as a toolbox to easily create full fledged websites with a catalog of
online courses.
Among the features that Richie
offers out of the box:
- multi-lingual by default,
- advanced access rights and moderation,
- catalog of courses synchronized with one or more
LMS
instances, - search engine based on
Elasticsearch
and pre-configured to offer full-text queries, multi-facetting, auto-complete,... - flexible custom pages for courses, organizations, categories, teachers, blog posts, programs (and their inter-relations),
- Extensible with any third-party
DjangoCMS
plugin or any third-partyDjango
application.
If you're looking for a quick preview of Richie
, you can take a look and have a tour of
Richie
on our dedicated demo site.
It is connected back-to-back with a demo of OpenEdX running on OpenEdX Docker.
Two users are available for testing:
- admin:
[email protected]
/admin
- student:
[email protected]
/edx
The database is regularly flushed.
Take a look at our documentation to get started with Richie.
Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process and get started developing on Richie
.
This work is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).