Openedx-platform
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Openedx-platform is an open-source learning management project on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license (network copyleft), with 8.2k stars. It is built with CPython, V8, react and Celery. Its last push was today.
- Stars
- 8.2k
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- named-release/birch
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- The Open edX LMS and Studio authoring tool for running large online course sites, as used by edX and many universities.
- Adopt it when
- You run MOOCs or large-scale online learning and have engineers to operate it.
- Watch out
- Complex to deploy and operate; most organisations use the Tutor installer or a hosting provider.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Self-hosted server
- Built with
- Python, Django, React, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis
- How established
- Established: started 13 years ago, latest release named-release/birch.
- What the license allows
- Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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