Gutenberg

Gutenberg is a teaching site for presenting structured markdown-based learning material in a dynamic learning platform. It supports self-paced courses built from curated groups of sections, and scheduled events for live teaching, workshops, and cohort delivery.

Gutenberg is designed to be flexible and adaptable to different teaching contexts, with a focus on simplicity and ease of use for both instructors and learners. It is built on a modern tech stack and can be deployed quickly in various environments, making it accessible for a wide range of educational settings.

About Gutenberg What the project is for, where the material comes from, and how courses and events fit together. Core Concepts A short explanation of material repositories, courses, events, defaults, and learning context.

Using Gutenberg

Start with task-focused guides, then use the fuller guide for reference.

How-To Guides Short guides for common jobs such as creating a course, making an event from a course, or syncing defaults. User Guide Reference documentation for courses, events, learning context, material navigation, and default-course workflows.

Deploying and Configuring

Deployment How to run Gutenberg, connect a database, and get a working instance online. Configuration Environment variables, template settings, authentication, and the main knobs you can turn.

Developing Gutenberg

Development Guide Local setup, Docker workflows, docs development, and the practical details for hacking on the project. Architecture and Concepts The conceptual model behind the application, useful when you want to understand how the pieces relate.

Recent Changes

What's New in v2.0 Overview of the large release that introduced courses, default-course sync, and the newer editing model. Create an Event from a Course Use a course as a blueprint when you want a scheduled teaching event based on existing material structure. Sync Default Courses Review the default course catalogue and apply updates to the database from the courses page. Changelog Version-by-version release notes for the project.

Courses and Events

Use courses when you want a reusable, self-paced learning path with grouped material and tracked progress. Use events when you want to deliver the material to a cohort with dates, locations, enrolment, instructors, and event-specific structure.