June 17, 2014¶
The following information reflects what is new in the edX Platform as of June 17, 2014. See previous pages in this document for a history of changes.
edX Release Announcements Mailing List¶
These edX Course Staff Release Notes are always available and are updated with each release of the edX Platform on edx.org and edX Edge.
In addition, you can sign up for the edX Release Announcements mailing list to get an email message when we have updated the edX Course Staff Release Notes.
edX Studio¶
For videos, you can now create a transcript file that functions as a table of contents. The file contains links to different parts of the video. (BLD-933)
Course teams can now set the Matlab API key globally in the advanced settings for the course.
edX Learning Management System¶
- Mandarin Chinese has been added as a language option.
- When you search a discussion forum, the search engine now retrieves common misspellings and alternate spellings of the search term. (FOR-591)
- When a course has no content, users who try to access the course see a “No content has been added to this course” message rather than a 404 or 500 error message.
- The edX user ID is now included in student profile information. (LMS-2791)
edX Documentation¶
The following documentation is available:
Building and Running an edX Course
Click Help in the upper-right corner of any page in the edX Studio user interface to access relevant sections in this guide. You can also download the entire guide as a PDF.
Recent changes include:
- Updated Bulk Email to add information about possible bulk email states and situations in which enrolled students don’t receive bulk e-mail. (DOC-362)
- Added a description of the Student Gradebook, which is available for courses with enrollments of fewer than 200 students, to Grade and Answer Data.
- Added recommendation to use only .mp4 and .webm video formats to Working with Video Components.
- Updated Working with Video Components with information about adding a transcript that serves as a table of contents for a video.
Installing, Configuring, and Running the edX Platform
Recent changes include:
- Added the Installing the edX Production Stack section.
Other edX Resources¶
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.