Open edX Olive Release (December 2022)

Welcome to the Olive release! This release provides significant improvements and optimizations for authors and learners. Here’s what’s ready for you now:

🧑‍🏫 For Course Authors

Enhanced Text Editing in Studio: Author text components faster with full-screen editing, visual table creation, one-click image insertion from your gallery, special characters, emoticons, and undo/redo - all without touching HTML code.

Powerful Moderation Tools for Discussions: With the new Discussions experience, moderators can now endorse answers, close or edit posts with documented reasons, track learner activity and reported content, plus enable discussions for any unit with a single checkbox rather than manual topic configuration.

Integrate Third-Party Discussion Tools: Connect your courses with Ed Discussion, Yellowdig, InScribe, or Piazza via LTI - bringing advanced features like analytics dashboards, graded discussions, LaTeX support, and collaborative wiki-style answers directly into your learning experience.

Control Course Features in One Place: Turn course tools like Progress pages, Wiki, Calculator, and Discussions on or off with a single click — no more digging through advanced settings to enable features your learners need.

🎓 For Learners

Redesigned Discussion Forums: Navigate conversations faster with a tabbed interface, mark answers to questions, search across content and users, like posts inline, and track activity with interactive post summaries, plus improved moderation tools for course teams.

Reset Randomized Problem Banks: Perfect for flashcard-style study sessions and repeated practice, learners can now practice exam prep by resetting randomized content blocks to get fresh questions from a course’s problem bank.

User Login Glowup: Olive provides a streamlined registration, sign in, and Forgot Password experience.

🔮 Upcoming in Palm (June 2023)

We’re working hard on even more improvements in our Palm release (out now)! You can look forward to:

Redesigned Problem Editor: Create and edit problems in a full-screen visual editor without writing Markdown. The new editor features answer options, scoring, and settings all in one place, plus live previews and easy access to advanced OLX when you need it.

Streamlined ORA Grading: Grade open response assessments faster with side-by-side rubrics, file previews (PDFs, images, text), team coordination features, and batch grading, all in one intuitive interface that lets you review multiple submissions without switching screens.

Issue Verifiable Digital Credentials: Learners will be able to share tamper-proof, instantly verifiable program credentials to digital wallets, giving them portable proof of accomplishments they control and can present to employers, schools, or anyone they choose in seconds.

Schedule Emails to Students: Instructors will be able to schedule course emails to send later instead of immediately - perfect for timing announcements, reminders, and updates when students are most likely to engage.

⌚ Ready to Upgrade?

Have your site operations team check out the Tutor upgrading guide so they can upgrade your Open edX instance to the Olive release!

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