In the Open edX Birch release, course teams can embed Google calendars and Google Drive files in courseware.
To enable this feature on your instance of Open edX, you install the Google Drive XBlock.
For information about using Google calendars and Google Drive files in courses, see the Building and Running an Open edX Course guide.
Note
Before proceeding, review Guidelines for Updating the edX Platform.
To install the Google Drive XBlock, follow these steps.
In the edX Platform installation directory, edit the file
requirements/edx/github.txt
Add a line to include the XBlock utilities.
git+https://github.com/edx-solutions/xblock-
utils.git@349d6e05dbd553e1f18d3ad1f7ca02c0497f39d7#egg=xblock-utils
Add a line to add the Google Drive XBlock.
git+https://github.com/edx-solutions/xblock-google-drive.
git@138e6fa0bf3a2013e904a085b9fed77dab7f3f21#egg=xblock-google-drive
Save the requirements/edx/github.txt
file.
After you configure the edX Platform, to use Google Drive files or a Google Calendar in a course, you must add the XBlock to the advanced settings for the course. See the following documentation: