Preventing edx course to public students only for their university students can access

[irappa hukkeri]

Hi,

    I have edx platform as well as edx studio, so i wanted to build edx course for individual universities,here each university having lot of students and their students only accessing the course, public should not be access their course.

So can you please help me to getting this solution,and  how and where is setting configuration for this.

Regards:

Irappa.H

[Braden MacDonald]

Hi,

Here are a few options I'm aware of:

Option 1: Make the course "Invitation Only". Collect a list of students that should be allowed to register, and invite them to register using the instructor dashboard. This is the most robust, but obviously requires a lot of work upfront and is difficult to maintain. (You could also create a custom self-service webapp hosted on an external server that can determine if the user is authorized to enroll, and then enroll them in the course via the enrollment API - that would be easier to maintain but a lot more work to create.)

Option 2: After Dogwood was released, we've contributed a feature to allow you to specify a set of email address requirements; for example, you can say "only email addresses like @myschool.edu or @otherschool.edu are allowed to register": http://edx.readthedocs.org/projects/edx-installing-configuring-and-running/en/latest/configuration/config_allowed_regis_emails.html

However, this affects user registration, not enrollment in specific courses - so if you have different courses for different universities, it likely wouldn't help you. It's also not a perfectly secure solution, since anyone can enter an invalid email like "fake...@myschool.edu" and use the platform until forced to verify their email address. But it would make your intention clear and prevent casual access from unaffiliated users.

Option 3: Another option that is compatible with Dogwood or Cypress is to set up SAML/Shibboleth SSO login with each university, and then modify the login page template on your installation to disable to "normal" (first party) username/password login and registration. That would require changes to the code though, since I don't think that disabling first party auth is yet implemented by the Open edX project.

Again, would only affect user registration, not enrollment in specific courses.

Regards,

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Braden

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