Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#1

Post by r4victor » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 11:26 AM UTC

I want to build an online course on graph algorithms for my university. I've tried to find a solution which would let submit, execute and test student's code (implement an online judge), but have had no success. There are a lot of complex LMS and none of them seem to have this feature as a basic functionality.

Are there any good out-of-box solutions? I'm sure I can build a course using Moodle or another popular LMS with some plugin, but I don't want to spend my time customizing things.

I'm interested both in platforms and self-hosted solutions. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#2

Post by icebraining » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 11:46 AM UTC

My university uses Mooshak for that: https://mooshak2.dcc.fc.up.pt/ (this is the new version, when I attended they were using the previous: https://mooshak.dcc.fc.up.pt/)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#3

Post by w8rbt » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 11:52 AM UTC

Maybe look at Jupyter Notebook? It does much of this out of the box, but may not be exactly what you are looking for.

http://jupyter.org/about

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#4

Post by ItsMe000001 » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

The edX platform used by edX.com (of course) but also quite a few others is open source.

https://github.com/edx/

edX.com has this function but I don't know if it's in the pen source part and/or how easy it is to implement or use.

An entire platform may be a little overkill for what you want though?

> I don't want to spend my time customizing things.

Okay, probably not :-)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#5

Post by ricklamers » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

I know about a platform calld Ans[1] that supports code submission for assignments. It was built by a startup from TU Delft.

[1] https://www.ans-delft.nl/

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#6

Post by vvankrunkelsven » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:04 PM UTC

DataCamp has DataCamp Teach (https://www.datacamp.com/teach), which allows you to create your own interactive content.

Disclaimer: I work for DataCamp

Edit: there's also a 'light' version available: https://github.com/datacamp/datacamp-light

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#7

Post by valeg » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:05 PM UTC

Try stepik: https://support.stepik.org/hc/en-us/articles/360000159673-Ty...

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#8

Post by therealmarv » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:09 PM UTC

You want to automatically test student's code on a specific topic and don't want to spend time (nor money?) customizing things?

Sorry, there is no free beer.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#9

Post by artpi » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:13 PM UTC

I dont know about automated testing, but wanna plug this question: :)

I am producing an online course on managing remote teams. I want to use https://www.podia.com/ Has anyone used it?

Regarding automated testing - I dont think this is a basic feature.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple solution for building an online course

#10

Post by peeplaja » Mon, Jul 02, 2018, 12:15 PM UTC

SaaS platforms for it are https://teachable.com and https://www.thinkific.com