edX Event Log Extractor for Individual Users

Authors: Taylor Williams
Affiliation: Purdue University

<https://github.com/tzwilliams/edX-event-tools>

Please note that this project is still under active development. As is, the code is highly experimental and will need to be cleaned before production use.

Description

This script extracts all records of individual specified users' activity from the edX MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) event log files.
It outputs the resulting data (all events tied to a single user's ID) in two formats: a standard JSON file and a CSV file.

Files

Required Input Data Files

This pipeline requires edX-provided event log data files (NDJSON format) located within the subdirectories of an events folder.

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Output Files

CSV and JSON files for each specified user ID.

Environment setup

At present this pipeline is designed to work within the RStudio IDE (https://www.rstudio.com/). You will need to either install R and RStudio or use an online version of RStudio. Alternatively, an online version is available for free on nanoHUB.org (https://nanohub.org/resources/rstudio); however, the following instructions may need to be slightly modified if using the online version.

Instructions for using the package

1. Create a working directory.

2. Download the source code from GitHub as a zip file. Extract the zip file into the working directory created above.

3. The required edX datafiles ....

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Copyright

Copyright 2017 Taylor Williams

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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