Override Course Pace All Course Into Self Paced on Open edX

By default, course pacing was set to Instructor-Paced. But this configuration can be override, for example want to set it Self-Paced as default. Follow the steps below:

1. Go to Open edX server console.

2. Open and edit file /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/course_module.py.

3. Find the following codes snippet:

   ...
    self_paced = Boolean(
        display_name=_("Self Paced"),
        help=_(
            "Set this to \"true\" to mark this course as self-paced. Self-paced courses do not have "
            "due dates for assignments, and students can progress through the course at any rate before "
            "the course ends."
        ),
        default=False,
        scope=Scope.settings
    )
   ...
   

4. Then update the code, change part default=False from False to True. See the following codes snippet:

   ...
    self_paced = Boolean(
        display_name=_("Self Paced"),
        help=_(
            "Set this to \"true\" to mark this course as self-paced. Self-paced courses do not have "
            "due dates for assignments, and students can progress through the course at any rate before "
            "the course ends."
        ),
        default=True,
        scope=Scope.settings
    )
   ...
   

5. Restart LMS and CMS services.