Bespoke Learning Solutions

Looking to build a new online learning experience? Not finding anything that quite fits? We specialize in creating custom software, extensions, interactive problems, and other features to make your dreams come alive.

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Unique Needs, Custom Solutions

Powerful Core Features

Open edX® is an advanced online learning platform whose standard instance can most challenges. This is often enough for smaller organizations with a handful of courses, but what if you need something more?

Flexible Customization

Open edX®’s open source code can be tailored to your specific needs. Our developers are experts in customizing and deploying Open edX® in high-demand environments to deliver the learning experience you need.

Platform Contributions

Our customization approach emphasizes contributions to the Open edX® platform, ensuring predictable, sustainable maintenance by keeping the platform compatible with the changes we make for you.

Tailored Learning Solutions

Tailored Theming

You’ve cultivated a powerful brand. Changing logos and colors can be done with ease. Want to completely change the look and feel of your instance? We can do that, too.

Custom Extensions

Need new functionality for the platform? Looking to build a larger project of which Open edX® is only one part? We can add extensions to the platform directly or create standalone services and integrate them.

3rd-party Integrations

Connect the Open edX® platform to any service you need, such as third-party analytics, custom authentication providers, student information systems, CRMs, social media apps, e-commerce providers, and much more.

Custom Dashboards

Build an altogether new experience, tailored to your needs with custom dashboards that display the information you need, which in turn will help you get tasks done faster.

Complex Deployments

Need to deploy the platform in a completely new, unsupported environment or datacenter? Need to scale it to obscene sizes? We’re the team for you.

Unique Exercises

Have a concept that is best demonstrated with interactivity? Provide a world-class experience to your learners with custom exercises.

Product Design

Describe your problems and your needs to us, and we will design a bespoke solution for your needs. Get exactly the tool you need even if it has never existed before. Don’t compromise on look, feel, or capability.

Custom Learning Solutions

Tailor the most sophisticated open source learning platform to your needs with our OpenCraft’s bespoke learning solutions. We can help you build beautiful, effective courses for your learners.

3rd-party Integrations

Powerful Learning Experiences

Trusted Technical Partners

Many of the best educational institutions who use Open edX®, rely on OpenCraft to fill gaps in their own technical teams’ knowledge or availability. We serve as their technical consulting arm, helping them get the most out of the latest innovations and trends in online learning. These institutions value the direct personal relationships with competent and technically skilled collaborators that guarantee high quality, reliable work.

Senior Open edX® Developers

You can bet you’ll have the most accomplished technical team in the industry. All team members are senior developers with extensive experience in Python, Javascript, systems administration, and other technologies used by the Open edX® project. The team is completely decentralized, operating between North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia — allowing us to recruit the best talent, no matter where they are geographically located, and to serve you best, wherever your location is, or wherever your audience is!

Experienced Team Members

Many of our clients tell us that it’s easier to work with us due to our developers’ higher level of skill and collaboration. This means superior customer service due to better communication and project coordination. We’re the serious choice, trusted by large and demanding institutions worldwide. We have more expertise and stronger credentials with a longer contribution history on critical parts of the Open edX® platform. This means you can say goodbye to the burden of hand-holding your technical team, and will have to go through way fewer iterations to build a project.

Valued Community Members

Our position in the Open edX® community means that we can advise you not only on how to solve your problems today, but on how to prepare for changes down the line. Our continued commitment to the platform means we are engaged in design decisions, version releases, and other key decisions.

Open edX® Core Contributors

Working with OpenCraft means having a say in how the Open edX® platform is developed and championed. We represent our clients in community working groups, tackling product design, marketing, development, and more. Our team sports more Core Contributors than any other organization in the community.

Learn More in Our Handbook

The OpenCraft handbook serves as the definitive guide to how we operate as a company. In line with our commitment to openness and transparency, most of it is publicly accessible. Our goal is to eventually only keep client-sensitive information in a private repository, while making the majority of our policies public.

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I have worked with OpenCraft on multiple projects in the past years, and I am still amazed by how consistent, professional, and responsive they are. I can rely on their support and quality of the code, always. They continuously contribute to the Open edX® platform.
Natalia Berdnikov | Senior Project Manager | edX
OpenCraft has been an invaluable partner in making our vision for Cloudera OnDemand a reality. No other Open edX® provider can rival OpenCraft's deep level of knowledge of the platform, or match their skill in customizing it.
Rowan McVey | Former Program Manager | Cloudera
OpenCraft developed two custom products for my team to expand the Open edX® platform's capabilities. Their performance and attention to customer satisfaction exceeded my expectations with seamless integrations.
Stefan Esposito | Instructional Development Manager | HarvardX | Opinion independent of organization
We sought a partner who shared our values on open source, knew the Open edX® community well, and delivered high quality service. OpenCraft did just that and more, with rock-solid service and a willingness to explore ways to provide more value to our university community.
Michael Greene | Associate Director | Duke Learning Innovation | Duke University | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft has successfully delivered several complex features in the Open edX® platform, and are recognized throughout the Community as experts in development of XBlocks. We count on OpenCraft to develop key parts of our roadmap on time and at a high quality.
Steve Magoun | Former Engineering Director | edX
OpenCraft is fantastic to work with. They customized our Open edX® instance allowing for the very specific use case we needed. The high level of customization achieved thanks to OpenCraft is critical to our ability to train policy makers around the world.
Charlotte Tuminelli | Senior Training Manager | Harvard Kennedy School | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft matched all of our needs, quickly and satisfactorily. This is a service we would recommend. Everything works great and there is always somebody on the other side of the email.
Ramon Ovelar | Researcher | University of the Basque Country
OpenCraft's working relationship with the Open edX® Community allows changes to be quickly integrated in the latest Open edX® release, allowing everyone to benefit. The team provided fantastic support on a very complex issue with a very tight deadline.
Ethan Barden | MeriSTEM Project Coordinator | Australian National University
OpenCraft's work is professional, accurate, always on time and with a smile. They are true leaders of the Open Source community around the Open edX® technology.
Anne Lifshits Agmon | CTO | Campus-IL | Israel's National Project for Digital Learning
OpenCraft was a pleasure to work with, helping through every stage of the process. From idea generation, prototyping, construction, deployment, and testing. They were responsive to my needs and completed the work on time and on budget.
Bill Wisser | Sr. Director of Learning Technologies | Harvard Graduate School of Education | Opinion independent of organization
OpenCraft’s strong collaboration skills, excellence in their craft, and harmonic practices lead to significant contributions to the Open edX® ecosystem. This results in a profound resonance of the edX mission to provide quality education to the global community.
Nimisha Asthagiri | Chief Architect | edX
LabXchange is committed to open source, and so with OpenCraft's deep investment in the development of Open edX®, they were an obvious partner for us. OpenCraft built the LabXchange platform and ensured a productive collaboration with the technical team at edX.
Robert A Lue | Former Faculty Director & Principal Investigator | Harvard LabXchange