OpenLearn is an open-source secure learning management system designed for simplicity and easy use. It was born out of the OpenGive 2017 hackathon where hackers gather to build cool projects for non-profits.
There are many charitable, education-focused non-profits that are in need of a system to help organize and facilitate their courses, programs, and assignments. OpenLearn was created to answer that need.
This application provides those non-profits with a centralized, web-based application to securely store and manage educational data, create courses and assignments, and provide a place to manage student grades and submissions.
There are 3 major feature areas that OpenLearn is built around:
- Organizing and centralizing educational data (courses, programs, etc.)
- Facilitating courses and assignments
- Providing course and assignment information for students
Overarching above all these features is a strong security requirement.
A complete list of features is "in-the-works" on our wiki
Checkout the issues page for places to start helping out! We are working on documenting issues that need help by marking them with the help wanted or good first issue labels.
- Angular
- Java Spring Boot
- MariaDB
- AWS
- S3
- KMS (optional)
- ReCaptcha
OpenLearn is built as a Angular Single Page Application (SPA) written in TypeScript backed by a REST API built with Java Spring Boot using Java 8. The database used to store a majority of the data in OpenLearn is MariaDB.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage service is used to store file information (like assignment uploads). By default, these files are encrypted, but an optional custom AWS encryption key made using AWS's Key Management Service (KMS) can be used to encrypt those uploaded files.
Finally, ReCaptcha is configured to be used with the application as an additional layer of security.
All things SPA live under the www directory. The REST API lives under the
services directory.
There is a step-by-step setup for development walk-through be crafted in the wiki
Are you a non-profit interested in setting up OpenLearn for your organization? :smile:
Awesome! We're happy to help you. Eventually, there will be "easy self deployment" guide you can use with recommendations and more, but for now we recommend you reach out to us at OpenGive directly. We'll be happy to help you get setup.