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What is the Impact of AI in the Online Learning Space?

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

June 2023: OpenCraft Quarterly Catch Up

It’s that time again. Our quarterly catch up is here, and I’m about to dish out the hottest goss on all things […]

OpenCraft in Boston and Bogotá

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!

Catch OpenCraft at the Open edX Conference 2023

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

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01-23 Newsletter — Conference Schedule Preview, Olive Features, Core Contributor Retros

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

12-22 Newsletter — Olive Release, Listaflow, Call For Proposals

[Olive Released 🫒] The fifteenth Open edX community release, called Olive, is now out! The release was coordinated by the Open edX […]
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What Is Listaflow, And How Is It Being Used By The Open edX Community?

This article was written by Ali Hugo, UX and UI Designer at OpenCraft. Listaflow is a new open source tool […]
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11-22 Newsletter — 2023 Conference Keynotes, New TOC Members, Product Survey

[2023 Conference Keynotes] The team at tCRIL announced the first two keynote speakers for the 2023 Open edX Conference, taking place March 28-31 […]

Designing better Open edX themes

This article was written by Cassie Zamparini-Kern, senior UX and UI Designer at OpenCraft. When you search Google images for […]

10-22 Newsletter — 2023 Conference, Upskilling Disadvantaged Youth

Here's a recap of our October 2022 newsletter: [Open edX Conference 2023] The 2023 Open edX conference has just been announced! […]
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How to Use the Open edX LMS for Authentication

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

09-22 Newsletter — Ecosystem overview, TOC Election, Advanced Assessments

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

Designing better Open edX themes

This article was written by Cassie Zamparini, senior UX and UI Designer at OpenCraft. When you search Google images for […]

A Look at the Recent Enhancements to Discussions in Open edX

This article was written by Kshitij Sobti, senior open source developer at OpenCraft. OpenCraft has been interested in working on […]

2022 TOC Election - Help us spread the word!

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

08-22 Newsletter — Documentation, H5P XBlock, Monthly Meetup

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

07-22 Newsletter — Nutmeg Features, Monthly Meetup

[Nutmeg Features] Nutmeg is the latest Open edX named release. Our friend Sarina Canelake, Engineering Manager at the Center For Reimagining […]
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Better State Management for React using Providence

A few months back, I wrote a blog post on how to build your own Micro Front End for the […]
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06-22 Newsletter — Nutmeg Released, July Community Meetup, Demystifying User Retirement

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

This article was written by team member Kaustav Banerjee. User Retirement in an Open edX platform is the very last […]

05-22 Newsletter — Lisbon Conference Recap, Session Recordings, TOC "AMA"

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

OpenCraft In Portugal: Team Retreat, Conference Highlights

Written by Gabriel D'Amours, a member of the OpenCraft team. After three years of not seeing each other in the […]

04-22 Newsletter — OpenCraft In Portugal + Open edX Conference

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

Introduction This article was written by Farhaan Bukhsh, senior open source developer at OpenCraft. We at OpenCraft, while maintaining Open […]
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03-22 Newsletter — Conference Program; Technical Oversight Committee; Open edX Survey; OpenCraft In Lisbon

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

This article was written by Sarina Canelake, Engineering & Community Manager at The Center For ReImagining Learning (tCRIL). The Open […]
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02-2022 Newsletter: Keynote Speakers, Conference Details, Core Contributors Adopted

[Conference Themes] The 2022 Open edX Conference will be hosted in-person in Lisbon, Portugal, from Apr. 26-29. You should register as soon as […]
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Open edX Content Libraries on Canvas LMS? Sure!

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

01-22 Newsletter: 2022 Conference, New Features, Marketing Work Group

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

12-21 Newsletter: Governance Changes, Maple, Virtual Event recap, Core Contributors

[Governance] As the stewardship of the Open edX platform is moving from edX/2U to the newly formed Center For Reimagining Learning […]
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The 2U edX Acquisition: OpenCraft's Take

This blog post was written by team member Fox Piacenti. Travel’s been rare over the last year. Recently, our CEO […]

11-21 Newsletter: 2U Acquisition, End-Of-Year Virtual Event, Maple Release, Tech Radar

[2U Acquisition] E-Learning company 2U has completed its acquisition of the edX.org website and assets, as announced in Open edX's recent blog […]
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Your Own Micro Front End for Open edX

This article was written by team member Fox Piacenti The Open edX platform is a large open source project that […]

10-21 Newsletter: Maple Release, Core Contributors, Open Source Theme

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

Improving Open Response Assessments: Blended Project Recap

This article was written by OpenCraft team member Giovanni Cimolin da Silva. A good way to assess learners in online […]

09-21 Newsletter: Virtual Event Recap, Sites Generator, Maple Release

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

Configuring multiple sites on the Open edX platform just got easier.

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

08-21 Newsletter: Virtual Community Event, Django 3.2 Update, OpenCraft Hiring

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

LTI 1.3 and LTI Advantage Support in the Open edX Platform

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

07-21 Newsletter: edX Acquired By 2U, LTI Advantage Certification, Extensions Directory

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

06-21 Newsletter: Lilac Released, Conference Recordings, How To Build New Features

Here is a recap of OpenCraft's June 2021 newsletter. [Lilac Released] Lilac, the twelfth Open edX community release, is now officially available! […]
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How Agile Methodology Impacts Planning and Budgets

This article was written by team member Fox Piacenti. Software development is a complex process. Anyone looking to invest in software […]

All XModules converted to XBlocks

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

05-21 Newsletter: Conference Recap, Lilac Updates, AWS S3 Encryption

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

Building A New Feature: What Matters Most

This blog post was written by our team member Aayush Agrawal At OpenCraft, we do a lot of feature development […]

04-21 Newsletter: 2021 Conference, Theming Improvements, Open Source MOOC

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

Open edX Core Committers Program

by Braden MacDonald, CTO of OpenCraft & Nimisha Asthagiri, Chief Architect at edX Announcement As part of edX’s ongoing commitment […]
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Enabling server-side encryption on AWS S3 and Open edX

This article was written by team member Aayush Agrawal This blog post shows how to enable encryption at rest for […]

03-21 Newsletter: Platform Intro Talk, Doc-A-Thon, Mobile Apps

OPENCRAFT MARCH NEWSLETTER Here is a recap of OpenCraft's March 2021 newsletter. Intro to Open edX Platform Ned Batchelder from […]
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Hosting best practices for your Open edX instance

This article was written by team member Aayush Agrawal. Every industry has its best practices, and we follow them for […]

How We Deploy the Open edX Platform

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.
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Parts of the Open edX Platform: A Walkthrough

This article was written by team member Fox Piacenti. The parts of the Open edx platform are numerous and can be […]
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Introducing Open edX Publisher

Arguably, one of the biggest things about the most recent Open edX release, Koa, is that it officially supports the […]
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Why you Should Upgrade your Open edX Installation--And Keep it up to Date

This article was written by team member Fox Piacenti. If your company runs a copy of the Open edX platform, […]
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Open edX DevStack: A Toolkit for the Future of Learning Software

This article was written by team member Fox Piacenti. If you’ve had the opportunity to take a course on edx.org, […]
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A New Editable Gradebook For the Open edX platform

This article was written by team member Fox Piacenti. The edX.org website opened in 2012 as a massive online learning […]

XBlock Highlights: Chatbot XBlock

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."

Why We Automate (Almost) Everything That Can Be Automated

This article was written by team member Nizar Mahmoud. Work often involves a lot of repetitive and time-heavy tasks. For […]

Rebuilding our Open edX instance manager

A few months ago we decided to rebuild our Open edX instance manager frontend to provide more customization options and […]

FAQ - Create online courses using the Open edX platform

This article was written by Jeff Miller, a member of the OpenCraft marketing team. So, you’ve been looking for a […]

LabXchange is the Inaugural Open edX Prize Winner for Most Important Technical Project

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

Why you should use a dedicated instance of the Open edX platform

This article was written by Jeff Miller, a member of the OpenCraft marketing team. We’ve consciously built OpenCraft on four […]

The new OpenCraft Pro & Teacher hosting plan has launched : )

This article was written by Jeff Miller, a member of the OpenCraft marketing team. I’m excited to share that we […]

Working With Top-Tier Universities and the Open edX platform

This article was written by Jeff Miller, a member of the OpenCraft marketing team. At OpenCraft, we work daily with […]

Openness isn’t just for code: Radical transparency at OpenCraft

This article was written by Jeff Miller, a member of the OpenCraft marketing team. Foreword It’s probably not a surprise […]

Our Contributions to the Open edX® Enterprise Service

This article was written by team member Tim Krones From fall of 2016 through summer of 2018, OpenCraft worked closely with […]

Are you now working remotely? Here’s how to make it work long term.

This article was written by Jeff Miller, a member of the OpenCraft marketing team Foreword In the midst of the […]
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Tutorial: Encrypting an existing root partition in Ubuntu with dm-crypt and LUKS

A technical tutorial brought to you by OpenCraft : ) This article was written by team member Alan Evangelista. This […]

LabXchange is launched!

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

Tutorial: Attaching Visual Studio Code to Devstack LMS Container

A technical tutorial brought to you by OpenCraft : ) This article was written by team member Paulo Viadanna. Introduction […]

Tutorial: Creating Course Content with H5P for the Open edX® platform

This article was written by team member Tim Krones What H5P is (and why you should care) H5P is a […]

Why the Open edX® Platform Should Be Your New LMS

This article was written by team member Giovanni Cimolin da Silva Are you looking into new solutions for your next […]

Public Course Content - Now Available In Ironwood

This article was originally posted by OpenCraft team member Jill Vogel on the Open edX website. The upcoming Open edX® […]

2019 Open edX Conference recap

This article was written by team member James Tait The OpenCraft team was present at the 2019 Open edX Conference […]