April 23, 2014

The following information reflects what is new in the edX Platform as of April 23, 2014. See previous pages in this document for a history of changes.

edX Documentation

You can access the edX Status page to get an up- to-date status for all services on edx.org and edX Edge. The page also includes the Twitter feed for @edXstatus, which the edX Operations team uses to post updates.

You can access the public edX roadmap for details about the currently planned product direction.

The following documentation is available:

• Building and Running an edX Course

  You can also download the guide as a PDF from the edX Studio user interface.

  Recent changes include:

  • Updated Testing Your Course to include a section on how to Switch Between Studio and Your Live Course.
  • Updated Transcripts in Additional Languages in Working with Video Components.
  • In Discussions, corrected the steps to Create Discussion Categories.
  • Updated the Bulk Email section with information about the dashboard option to opt out of course email.
  • Updated the Enrollment section to reflect feature changes.

• edX Research Guide

• edX Developer’s Guide

edX Studio

• A problem in the HTML editor that caused custom JavaScript and CSS code to be corrupted when you saved an HTML component is now resolved. (STUD-1560)

edX Learning Management System

• This release includes several enhancements to the Beta Instructor Dashboard:
  • You can now enter either a username or an email address to batch add and enroll beta testers and students.
  • The Auto Enroll option is now available when you add beta testers in batch.
  • For the Batch Enrollment and the Batch Add Beta Testers features, the Auto Enroll and Notify students by email options are now selected by default.
• A problem that prevented MathJax from being displayed properly when the problem answer was shown is now resolved. (BLD-993)