FAQ

Of course, you can download courses from your Open edX® platform as long as you have the rights to do so. In order to do so you have to follow this guide: Exporting and Importing a Course

There is currently no Professional Certificate program for developers.

Yes! You can perfectly add videos to the different sections of your training. To add a video to an Open edX® course, take a look at these guidelines.

Yes. Due to security and governance rules, some organizations choose to run the Open edX Platform on their infrastructure.

Yes. The Open edX platform utilizes AWS and Microsoft, IBM's distribution uses their respective cloud offerings, and Bitnami's distribution runs all cloud infrastructures.

No. We understand that some organizations are averse to using open source products with an AGPL license. Please contact us for your specific needs.

TCRIL does not have a qualification process for our service partners at this time. Like many other open source projects, we utilize a merit-based system to rank our partners in terms of their contributions to the Open edX project.

The Open edX Development page has many open source projects. Search Github using keywords "Open edX" and "Xblock."

TCRIL invests heavily in the Open edX project by supporting the community, but does not provide direct services to users of Open edX Platform. 

TCRIL does not provide any content. For content and licensing requests, please contact organizations that have Open edX instances.

The Open edX platform can be deployed on a variety of hosting options, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Hetzner your on-premise infrastructure, and more. By working with an Open edX® installation provider you can implement an Open edX platform on your preferred hosting solution. There are also vendors that specialize in Open edX® managed hosting services to help you monitor, manage, and scale your hosting.

Yes. Unlike many other "open source" projects, Open edX Platform is a complete and deployable product with close to 2,000 instances deployed in 90 countries.

Yes, provided that you have a technical team in place. Need help? Join the Community or check out the Marketplace to find an Open edX service provider.

To try out the Open edX Platform, head to the Get Started page and choose from Self Managed (based on a distribution of your choice) or Fully Managed (Open edX Platform as a service).

TCRIL believes in meaningful integrations with 3rd party products. Check the Marketplace to find out more about our technology partners.

Yes. With the Open edX platform, you can easily create your own course from your web browser.

Yes. The code necessary to install and run the Open edX Platform on a server is free. However, you will be paying for the hosting, maintenance, and support of your site.

Open edX software includes the authoring tool called "Open edX Studio" for course creation, the learner management system (LMS), which is the site your learners see, and XBlocks, which are plugins to extend the platform.

The Open edX platform is a free, open source learner management system (LMS) that was originally developed by TCRIL. It is used all over the world to host Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as smaller classes and training modules.

XBlock is the component architecture for the elements of an Open edX course. Software developers build XBlocks to create independent course components that work seamlessly with other components in an online course. For example, you can build XBlocks to represent individual problems, or text strings, or HTML content. In addition, XBlocks are composable: you can build XBlocks to represent larger structures such as lessons, sections, and entire courses. By combining XBlocks that serve a wide variety of purposes, from delivering text and video content, to presenting multiple choice and numerical questions, to supporting sophisticated collaborative and interactive learning laboratories, course teams can create rich and engaging courseware. A primary advantage to XBlocks is that they are deployable. The code that you write can be deployed in any instance of the Open edX Platform or other XBlock runtime application, and then used by any course team using that system.

Studio is the Open edX tool that you use to build your courses. You use Studio to create the course structure and then add course content, including problems, videos, and other resources for learners. You also use Studio to manage the course schedule and the course team, set grading policies, publish each part of your course, and more. You use Studio directly through a browser. You do not need any additional software.

The LMS is the Open edX tool that learners use to access course content, including videos, textbooks, and problems, and to check their progress in the course. The Open edX LMS can also offer a discussion forum and a wiki that both learners and course team members can contribute to. For course team members, the LMS includes an Instructor Dashboard, with options to enroll learners, produce reports, and administer a course as it runs. You use the LMS directly through a browser. You do not need any additional software.