June 25, 2014

The following information reflects what is new in the edX Platform as of June 25, 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.

You can also 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

XBlocks that have been accepted into the edX platform can now be added to courses as either advanced problems or advanced components. As a result, Peer Assessments is now listed as a problem type on the Advanced tab in a Problem component. For more information, see Creating Peer Assessments.

edX Learning Management System

• In some courses, an error prevented the full output that is available from an external grader for a coding problem from appearing. This error has been corrected. (LMS-2852)
• In Discussions, you can now search by username to access a list of the discussion posts made by another user. (FOR-627)

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.

  • Instructions for adding a table of contents for a video file are now available in the Video Table of Contents section. (BLD-933)
  • The example report in the Download or view student data section now includes the new User ID column.

• edX Research Guide

• edX Developer’s Guide

• edX XBlock Documentation

• Installing, Configuring, and Running the edX Platform

A Preface that identifies resources for course teams, developers, researchers, and students was added to Building and Running an edX Course, the edX Research Guide, and the edX Developer’s Guide this week.

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.