This year, the Open edX Conference will be held from July 2 – 5, 2024 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. I’m […]

The arrival of new AI technology has sent the world of online education abuzz. The new technologies have brought new […]

Open edX presents Content Tagging! "Tagging" has been a long-requested feature for managing content in Studio, and now OpenCraft is finally designing and […]

After an unforgettable Open edX 2022 conference and co-working retreat last year in Lisbon, Portugal, we were eager to see what our 2023 trip had in store!

This year, the Open edX Conference will be held from March 28 – 31 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference schedule […]

Conference Preview Get a sneak peek of the 2023 Open edX Conference with tCRIL's series of "Conference Preview" blog posts. […]

Olive Released 🫒 The fifteenth Open edX community release, called Olive, is now out! The release was coordinated by the Open […]

Listaflow is a new open source tool being built by our team here at OpenCraft. Although it is still in […]

2023 Conference Keynotes  The team at tCRIL announced the first two keynote speakers for the 2023 Open edX Conference, taking place March […]

When you search Google images for “UX design process” you’ll probably see something a little like this: I wish the […]

Here's a recap of our October 2022 newsletter: Open edX Conference 2023 The 2023 Open edX conference has just been […]

There are some great resources for building extensions to the Open edX platform. The XBlock SDK is excellent, and MFEs […]

Here's a recap of our September newsletter: TOC Election - Sep 30 deadline In October, the Open edX Community will […]

OpenCraft has been interested in working on improvements to the discussions infrastructure in Open edX for quite some time now, […]

Register to vote In October 2022, members of the Open edX Community will be called to elect 3 members of […]

September Community Meetup The September Open edX Meetup will happen on Thursday September 22 at 10am EST. It will feature […]

Nutmeg Features Nutmeg is the latest Open edX named release. Our friend Sarina Canelake, Engineering Manager at the Center For […]

A few months back, I wrote a blog post on how to build your own Micro Front End for the […]

Here's a recap of our June 2022 newsletter: Nutmeg Release Nutmeg, the latest stable version of the Open edX platform, […]

User Retirement in an Open edX platform is the very last stage of the user account’s lifecycle, which begins with […]

Here's a recap of our May 2022 newsletter: Lisbon Conference + Retreat Recap The OpenCraft team flew to Lisbon, Portugal […]

After three years of not seeing each other in the flesh, the OpenCraft team flew to Lisbon, Portugal to attend […]

Here's a recap of our April 2022 newsletter: This edition of our newsletter will be shorter than usual, because our […]

Introduction We at OpenCraft, while maintaining Open edX instances for our clients, often run into unique problems that have quite […]

Open edX Conference The program and schedule for the 2022 Open edX Conference are now live! Please visit Sched to see the […]

The Open edX Core Contributor Program grants community members expanded rights and ownership over various aspects of the Open edX […]

Conference Themes The 2022 Open edX Conference will be hosted in-person in Lisbon, Portugal, from Apr. 26-29. You should register as soon […]

This article was co-written by OpenCraft team member Adolfo Brandes and Daniel Seaton, Sr. Learning Systems Designer at MIT. In […]

Here's a recap of our January 2022 newsletter: Open edX Conference After two years of forced hiatus, the long awaited, […]

Governance As the stewardship of the Open edX platform is moving from edX/2U to the newly formed Center For Reimagining […]

Travel’s been rare over the last year. Recently, our CEO Xavier and I flew into Cambridge and sat down with […]

2U Acquisition E-Learning company 2U has completed its acquisition of the edX.org website and assets, as announced in Open edX's […]

The Open edX platform is a large open source project that has been around close to a decade. The web […]

Here is a recap of our October 2021 newsletter: Maple Release Update The master branches for Maple, the next Open […]

A good way to assess learners in online courses is to evaluate essay-type text responses through a set of well-defined […]

Community Event The Open edX community hosted an online event on Friday, September 17. It featured a talk by Ed Zarecor on […]

This article was written by team members Shimul Chowdhury and Guruprasad Lakshmi Narayanan. An Open edX "site" presents a catalog […]

Open edX Community Event All members of the community are invited to join a virtual Open edX conference and meetup, […]

This article was written by Giovanni Cimolin (OpenCraft) and Ned Batchelder (edX). Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a standard used […]

Here is a recap of our July 2021 newsletter: 2U Acquires edX 2U, an educational technology company, announced that it is acquiring […]

Here is a recap of OpenCraft's June 2021 newsletter. Lilac Released Lilac, the twelfth Open edX community release, is now […]

Software development is a complex process. Anyone looking to invest in software for their company wants to know that they […]

This blog post was co-authored by OpenCraft team member Usman Khalid and edX team member Dave Ormsbee. It is with […]

Here is a recap of OpenCraft's May 2021 newsletter. Open edX Conference The 2021 Open edX virtual conference happened on […]

At OpenCraft, we do a lot of feature development for our clients. While the Open edX platform is great and […]

Here is a recap of OpenCraft's April 2021 newsletter. Open edX Conference The 2021 Open edX Virtual Conference has officially been […]

This article was written by Braden MacDonald, CTO of OpenCraft & Nimisha Asthagiri, Chief Architect at edX Announcement As part […]

This blog post shows how to enable encryption at rest for Amazon S3 Object Storage used by your Open edX […]

Here is a recap of OpenCraft's March 2021 newsletter. Intro to Open edX Platform Ned Batchelder from edX and Fox […]

Every industry has its best practices, and we follow them for a simple reason: to walk the path already forged […]

The Open edX platform is constantly growing in every aspect, something that’s desirable for every Open Source Software that proves to be useful and true to the name. In that sense, the ways of setting up the platform keep evolving, too. Unless you’re knowledgeable with the tools used for working with the platform in a local environment, there is no “simple” way to get started with an instance without help. That’s where we come in.

The parts of the Open edx platform are numerous and can be confusing. Newcomers lose themselves in the project's size. […]

Arguably, one of the biggest things about the most recent Open edX release, Koa, is that it officially supports the […]

If your company runs a copy of the Open edX platform, you may feel satisfied with its impressive array of […]

If you’ve had the opportunity to take a course on edx.org, you might wonder how you can contribute to the […]

The edX.org website opened in 2012 as a massive online learning destination with free courses that anyone could enjoy. Today, […]

The Chat XBlock describes itself as "An XBlock that allows learners to chat with a bot, where the bot follows a script and the learner can choose among possible responses."

Work often involves a lot of repetitive and time-heavy tasks. For example, at OpenCraft we automate the decommissioning of unneeded […]

Note: we no longer offer our Pro & Teacher Plan A few months ago we decided to rebuild our Open […]

So, you’ve been looking for a learning management system (LMS) and have decided that the open source Open edX platform […]

Congratulations! Congratulations to Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Amgen Foundation, and the LabXchange team on this win! […]

We’ve consciously built OpenCraft on four values: Openness, quality, commitment and empathy. When it comes to quality, especially when it […]

I’m excited to share that we have launched an updated Pro & Teacher hosting plan for your Open edX® instances! […]

At OpenCraft, we work daily with top-tier universities. This probably isn’t all that surprising given that we specialize in developing […]

Foreword It’s probably not a surprise that a company that develops open source software values transparency. After all, transparency is […]

From fall of 2016 through summer of 2018, OpenCraft worked closely with the edX for Business team and Arbisoft to […]

Foreword In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of millions of people have suddenly had to adjust to working […]

This technical tutorial targets Ubuntu 19.10 and supports older versions down to Ubuntu 16. Introduction Your Linux user password prevents […]

This post was co-written by Braden MacDonald (CTO at OpenCraft) and Ned Batchelder (Software Architect at edX). This has also […]

Introduction The move to using Docker for the Open edX® devstack brought many improvements to our workflow, but it isn't […]

What H5P is (and why you should care) H5P is a tool that allows course authors to create rich HTML5 […]

Are you looking into new solutions for your next online learning experience and do you want to offer courses on […]

This article was originally posted on the Open edX website. The upcoming Open edX® release contains an exciting, much-requested new […]

The OpenCraft team was present at the 2019 Open edX Conference that was taking place on March 23-26 at University […]