Open edX is a widely popular online learning platform that offers open-source software to create and deliver massive open online courses. It is a powerful tool and it involves platforms that need to maintain their performance and scalability.

By regularly reindexing Open Edx Courses, it is possible to ensure optimal performance and improve the quality of the platform. In this blog, we will explain how you can automatically reindex your Open edX courses using Open edX Koa Version to keep your platform up to date.

Reindex Open edX Courses without Make File

To reflect any changes made to course content on the open edx platform, it is necessary to perform a reindexing process to reload the updated content. Suppose you have made modifications to course content such as editing videos or images. To ensure that the course content is updated correctly and that courses are loaded on the Open edX platform, it is necessary to perform the reindexing process of the course.

Let’s check the manual process of reindexing open edx courses.

• Go to Studio Shell

Use the given Command to open the studio shell:

$ make studio-shell

• Run Command

Execute the given command in the shell.

./manage.py cms reindex_course –all

With this command, you can manually reindex all the courses on the open edx. But you have to run this command whenever you make any changes to the course content. This process may be quite frustrating and time-consuming.

How to automatically reindex learning courses? To automate the reindexing process of open edx courses, you need to follow the given steps.

Automate Reindexing of Open edX Courses with Koa Version Using MakeFile

Implement the given steps with the Open edX Koa version to automatically reindex open edx courses using MakeFile. To reindex the courses using a Makefile, you will need to include code into the file to run the command.

Add Code into your MakeFile to Execute Command

MakeFile uses to build automation tools that help to organize and manage the course content. It helps to reduce the manual effort required to perform tasks, making the course development and deployment process faster and more reliable.

Add the given below code into your MakeFile to execute reindex open edx command.

dev.reindex.studio-courses:

 If docker inspect --format {{ json.State.Running}}’ edx.devstack-koa.master.studio; then

  docker-compose exec studio bash -c ‘source /edx/app/edxapp/edxapp_env && cd /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/ && ./manage.py cms reindex_course --all’;

 Else

  echo studio service is not started yet. To start services please run make dev.up;

 fi

For example,

As you can show in the example, implement the given code into your MakeFile to execute reindexing process automatically.

$ make dev.reindex.studio-courses

Hit enter button to execute the command. It will automatically reindex all the open edx courses in Open edX Koa Version using MetaFile.

Note:

Before executing the command it is necessary to check if the studio service is started or not. In case the studio service has not been initiated yet, you can use the ‘make dev.up’ command to start the studio service. If you try to run the ‘make dev.reindex.studio courses’ command without initiating the studio services, you may encounter an error message as shown below:

“studio service is not started yet. To start services please run make dev.up”

Conclusion

By just implementing lines of code into your MakeFile, it can easily reindex all your open edx courses without any manual intervention. And it’s a very easy and reliable way to reindex your courses.

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