Open edX Palm Release (June 2023)

Welcome to the Palm release! Discover new and exciting features for authors, learners, and site operators. Here’s what’s ready for you now:

🧑‍🏫 For Course Authors

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 can now 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 can now schedule course emails to send later instead of immediately. This is perfect for timing announcements, reminders, and updates when students are most likely to engage.

🎓 For Learners

Enhanced Discussions Experience: Improved accessibility, faster loading times, and a Discussions “Product Tour” have been introduced to the Discussions application.

⚙️ For Site Operators

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🔮 Upcoming in Quince (December 2023)

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

Copy & Paste Course Components: Reuse text blocks, problems, videos, and full course units across courses in seconds by copying to a clipboard and pasting it wherever you need it, cutting down content creation time dramatically.

New DemoX Course: The new DemoX course will provide five modules that advance from general to specific knowledge and provide reusable blocks that you can repurpose for your own courses.

Redesigned Learner Home: Learners will have a sleek, modern hub to view enrolled courses, filter by status, sort by date or title, and quickly resume learning.

Discussions Right Where You Need Them: Learners will be able to view, respond to, and start discussion threads directly within course units via a collapsible sidebar - no more navigating away from content to join the conversation.

Sell Courses with WooCommerce: An integration with WooCommerce will let you create course products, process enrollments, handle refunds, and manage seats without maintaining your own ecommerce infrastructure.

⌚ Ready to Upgrade?

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

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