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 […]
01.02.2023 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 […]
10.01.2023 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 […]
22.12.2022 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 […]
01.12.2022 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 […]
25.11.2022 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! […]
04.11.2022 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 […]
19.10.2022 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 […]
05.10.2022 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 […]
22.09.2022 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 […]
12.09.2022 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 […]
31.08.2022 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 […]
30.08.2022 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 […]
22.07.2022 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 […]
07.07.2022 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 […]
27.06.2022 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 […]
01.06.2022 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 […]
19.05.2022 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 […]
19.05.2022 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 […]
26.04.2022 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 […]
01.04.2022 Open edX Core Contributor Program This article was written by Sarina Canelake, Engineering & Community Manager at The Center For ReImagining Learning (tCRIL). The Open […]
08.03.2022 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 […]
28.02.2022 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 […]
21.02.2022 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, […]
31.01.2022 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 […]
07.01.2022 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 […]
09.12.2021 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 […]
06.12.2021 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 […]
19.11.2021 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 […]
01.11.2021 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 […]
19.10.2021 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 […]
01.10.2021 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 […]
21.09.2021 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 […]
31.08.2021 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 […]
18.08.2021 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. […]
13.08.2021 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! […]
22.07.2021 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 […]
20.07.2021 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 […]
06.07.2021 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 […]
18.06.2021 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 […]
09.06.2021 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 […]
20.05.2021 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 […]
19.05.2021 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 […]
18.05.2021 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 […]
30.04.2021 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 […]
22.04.2021 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.
03.03.2021 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 […]
24.02.2021 Introducing Open edX Publisher Arguably, one of the biggest things about the most recent Open edX release, Koa, is that it officially supports the […]
29.01.2021 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, […]
11.01.2021 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, […]
29.10.2020 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 […]
13.10.2020 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."
21.09.2020 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 […]
03.09.2020 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 […]
03.08.2020 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 […]
27.07.2020 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 […]
30.06.2020 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 […]
28.05.2020 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 […]
27.05.2020 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 […]
19.05.2020 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 […]
11.05.2020 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 […]
19.04.2020 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 […]
02.04.2020 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 […]
19.03.2020 LabXchange is launched! This post was written by Braden MacDonald (CTO at OpenCraft) and Ned Batchelder (Software Architect at edX). This has also […]
04.02.2020 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 […]
09.09.2019 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 […]
14.08.2019 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 […]
12.06.2019 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® […]
14.05.2019 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 […]
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