Learner Experiences — Area Overview

Platform area: Learner Experiences
Color: Orange (#FF9601)
Audience: Enrolled students and prospective learners

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What This Area Covers

Learner Experiences encompasses everything a student interacts with on an Open edX platform — from discovering courses, creating an account, and enrolling, through the in-course learning experience, peer interaction, and ultimately earning credentials.

This is the platform's highest-visibility surface area and the one that most directly affects learner satisfaction, completion rates, and institutional reputation.

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Feature Areas

#	Feature Area	Description	Status
1	Course Experience	In-course learning: courseware, video, assessments, navigation	scaffold
2	Pathways Experience	Learner home and program discovery	scaffold
3	Mobile Learning	Native iOS and Android apps	scaffold
4	Discussion & Group Learning	Forums, threads, peer interaction, and group learning	scaffold
5	Identity & Accounts	Registration, login, SSO, account management	scaffold
6	Catalog Discovery & Commerce	Course catalog, search, enrollment commerce	scaffold

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Key Architecture Themes

• MFE-first: Most learner-facing UIs have been migrated or are migrating to standalone React micro-frontends
• Backend in openedx-platform: The Django monolith still owns enrollment, grading, and user data
• Separation of concerns: course-discovery owns catalog/program metadata; credentials owns certificate issuance; frontend-app-learning owns in-course UX
• Progressive modernization: Legacy Django-rendered pages (learner home, profile) being replaced by MFEs feature-by-feature

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Primary Repositories

Repository	Role
openedx-platform	Core backend: enrollment, grades, user data, legacy views
frontend-app-learning	In-course experience MFE
frontend-app-learner-dashboard	Learner home MFE
frontend-app-authn	Registration and login MFE
credentials	Certificate and credential service
forum	Forum backend (Python, replacing Ruby cs_comments_service)