Guide to Staff Debug Info

Guide to Staff Debug Info#

The platform keeps track of learners’ progress through a course – recording when the learner watches videos, responds to problems, and so on. If you are a member of a course team, some of that data is visible to you for debugging purposes. Under every problem is a Staff Debug Info button: selecting this button opens a window with information about the problem.

None of this information should be necessary for day-to-day usage of your Open edX® LMS, but for the sake of clarity, some of these fields are documented here.

is_released: Indicates whether the problem is visible to learners.
location: An internal unique identifier that corresponds to this problem.
markdown: The text of the problem, in Markdown format. This is often written using Studio. Markdown is no longer supported with the release of the visual editors.
display_name: The name of the problem, as shown to the learner.
max_attempts: The maximum number of times that a learner can attempt to answer the problem correctly.
attempts: The number of times that the currently logged-in learner has attempted to answer the problem correctly, so far. Every time this learner attempts to answer this question, this number will go up, until it reaches max_attempts.
parent: An internal unique identifier that corresponds to the unit that contains this problem.

Review Date	Working Group Reviewer	Release	Test situation