OPEN EDX KNOW HOWs

How can I get a translation of the Open edX platform into a different spoken language We are using Transifex as our translation platform. We have a number of translations in progress now. Please go to our Transifex page at:  https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/ I haven't received the email to activate my newly created account When running with the development environment settings, registration emails are not sent out. However, the URL with their activation key is logged to the console. Just copy it from there and paste it into the browser. How do I upgrade to a newer version You can reuse the same playbook which you used for installation. Just put use the deploy tag with "--tags deploy". How do I specify the image for my course? Using Studio, upload an image named images_course_image.jpg How do I restrict who can create new courses? Please read:  https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Controlling-course-creation-rights How to make...

Note: I will demostrate this with a gmail account 1. First navigate to and open file: ~/edx-ginkgo.2-2/apps/edx/config/lms.env.json 2. Search the settings below and make sure they look exactly the same     "EMAIL_BACKEND": "django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend",     "EMAIL_HOST": "smtp.gmail.com.",     "EMAIL_PORT": 587,     "EMAIL_USE_TLS": true, 3. Save your changes 4. Secondly navigate to and open another file: ~/edx-ginkgo.2-2/apps/edx/config/lms.auth.json 5. Search for the settings below, if it does not exist then add it manually     "EMAIL_HOST_USER": "YourUsernameHere@gmail.com",     "EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD": "YourPasswordHere", 6. Save your changes 7. Restart services Note: You need to allow less secure apps access to your gmail. Search google to find out how to do this. Note Again: If you try sending mail first time it wont work, but then you will get ...

Search for file: ~/edx-ginkgo.2-2/apps/edx/config/lms.env.json Modify the "REGISTRATION_EXTRA_FIELDS" dict to look like below "REGISTRATION_EXTRA_FIELDS": {         "city": "hidden",         "confirm_email": "hidden",         "country": "hidden",         "gender": "hidden",         "goals": "hidden",         "honor_code": "hidden",         "level_of_education": "hidden",         "mailing_address": "hidden",         "terms_of_service": "hidden",         "year_of_birth": "hidden"     } Save and restart services Regards!!