Activities vs Open edX Commerce

Activities is a free, light-weight plugin for managing activities. It provides an easy to use interface to manage your sites activities and who is participating. This plugin supports multisite installations. Each site has their own activities, locations, activity archive and plugin settings. The heart of the plugin is the Activity Report. When using the Activity Report it is easy to manage different recurring activities like yoga courses, football training and a lot of similar group oriented activities. The plugin integrates beautifully with WooCommerce Products. For example, when a customer is buying participation on a yoga retreat the customer are at the same time assigned the Activity list for this particular retreat. Activities Activities has name, start/end dates and two description of different sizes. They can also be assigned a location, they are created separately for easy reuse. If you have plans for the activity, they can be created separately and be reused on unlimited activities. The plans can be viewed on the activity report page. In addition each activity can have a responsible user who can be granted access to view and/or edit their assigned activities. Activities can be archived to get a ‘history’ and reduce the amount of activities on the ‘main’ list. Activity Report This plugin comes with a report page where you can get an overview of the activity and its participants. The report is a static structure, but has a lot of customization options for its content. In addition to specific report settings, the ‘Activities > Options > Activity Report’ page you can set a generic setting for all reports. Export and Participant Communication The export page allows you to copy participant information from an activity. It currently supports exporting email, phone and names. For example it can be used to send emails to all participants by copying the email list it provides and pasting it into a email program or webpage. Shortcodes A simple shortcode is provided to display activity information in blog-posts, products or other types of posts. Also comes with an option to display a join/unjoin button/link/image on posts. And status image to display different text/image whether user is participating or not. Check the FAQ on how to use it. Responsible Users Usually users would be granted permission to use a plugin based on their role. With this plugin you can grant users permission to only view and/or edit their assigned activities. This will naturally not restrict access for other users who have higher permissions based on role. WooCommerce Activities has a good integration with WooCommerce. Products can be assigned with any number of activities, when a user buys the product and the order is set to Completed they will be added to the activities assigned to products bought. Guets customers who buy any product can be converted into a WordPress user and then be assigned to activities. Importing Activities comes with a simple import feature. The import system only takes CSV files and expect them to be semicolon separated. Both activities and participants can be imported.

The “Open edX Commerce” package is a free and open-source WordPress plugin that allows you to integrate WooCommerce with your Open edX platform. What does this mean? You can create Open edX courses as products in WooCommerce, and when you perform purchase or refund operations for these products, your Open edX platform will reflect these changes. Here are some things you can do with this plugin: Create Open edX courses as products: When you create products using WooCommerce, you can designate them as Open edX courses. If you do, you can assign the course mode and course_id you registered in your Open edX platform. Add settings for the connection with Open edX: You’ll have a new option in your WordPress settings to store authentication-related information for your Open edX platform. Enrollment Manager: You’ll have a table that records all enrollment requests made through purchasing products that are Open edX courses. View the enrollment requests from the orders: When a person purchases WordPress, a WooCommerce order is generated. If an order includes a product that is an Open edX course, you can easily access the related enrollment request created with this plugin. Create enrollments in Open edX: When an order containing an Open edX course is processed, it automatically creates an enrollment request. You can also include the option to apply the “force” flag, disregarding the course’s enrollment end dates. Starting from version Quince of Open edX, you can use the option to create enrollment allowed for non-registered users on the platform. Create soft unenrollments from refunds: The enrollment record is maintained, but the “is_active” attribute of the enrollment is false. Deleting an “enrollment allowed” is also supported, but only from version Quince. Obtain enrollment information: This requests the Open edX APIs to retrieve the enrollment status of a user in a course. Obtain enrollment information: This requests the Open edX APIs to retrieve the enrollment status of a user in a course. Below are some links to help you get started with Open edX WooCommerce Plugin: Quick Start Guide How-to Guides Note This plugin calls the APIs from Open edX Platform. More information about the API connection can be found in Decisions: API connection. To learn more, you can visit the Open edX Terms of Service. This plugin is maintained by edunext. Quickstart Let’s start installing and configuring the Open edx Commerce plugin to connect your WordPress site with the enrollment APIs from your Open edX platform. Link to the Quickstart in the documentation.