Ufora content viewer

This is a static html generator for the content, announcements, quizzes and announcements of Ufora.

Why

1. Better overview of all content and announcement
2. Faster navigation and less loading times
3. Single page that doesn't need internet for open book exam

How it works

It uses your browsers (which browser can be specified) cookies for authentication and uses the underlying D2L API Ufora uses to request all data.

Getting started

Setting up your environment

git clone https://github.com/ToonDN/ufora-content-viewer
cd ufora-content-viewer
pip install -r requirements.txt

Using the command

./ufora --output [output directory] --courses [orgunitid1,orgunitid2,...]

Get the orgunit ids of the courses you want to use. This can be acquired by looking at the url of a course Example: https://ufora.ugent.be/d2l/home/440412 -> 440412

Additional options

Convert filetypes: --convert pptx:pdf,ppt:pdf

This command will download and convert all pptx and ppt files to pdf, this can be usefull to open them in browser.

Supported conversion are pptx:pdf, ppt:pdf, mkv:mp4

Download filetypes: --download pdf This command will download all files with this extension

Configuration

Configurations can be made in the config.py file.

Authors usage

General usage

Have a cronjob that runs ./ufora --output [output directory] --courses [orgunitid1,orgunitid2,...] every 30 minutes Additional benefit is that it refreshes your cookies and you don't have to login as often

Open book exam usage

Run ./ufora --output [output directory] --courses [orgunitid] --convert pptx:pdf,ppt:pdf,mkv:mp4 --download png,pdf,html