Open edX Quince Release (December 2023)#
Welcome to the Quince release! Discover new and exciting features for authors, learners, and site operators. Here’s what’s ready for you now:
🎓 For Learners#
Redesigned Learner Home: Learners now have a sleek, modern hub to view enrolled courses, filter by status, sort by date or title, and quickly resume learning. With improved course cards and easier navigation for large course lists, the new Learner Home is another step forward in the platform’s evolving design vision.
Discussions Right Where You Need Them: Learners can now 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.
⚙️ For Site Operators#
Sell Courses with WooCommerce Integration: The Open edX platform now integrates directly with WooCommerce, letting you create course products, process enrollments, handle refunds, and manage seats without maintaining your own ecommerce infrastructure.
See What Learners See: Via the new Learner Home, site staff can now view the platform as users on the platform by typing a username or email in the “View as” box.
🔮 Upcoming in Redwood (June 2024)#
We’re working hard on even more improvements in our Redwood release (out now)! You can look forward to:
Taxonomies and Tags for Easy Organization and Reuse: Add structured tags from any third-party taxonomy (or create your own) to courses, units, problems, and videos — then search by tag to quickly find and reuse content across courses, align to certifications, or track learning outcomes.
Aspects: Analytics Built Right Into Open edX: Access near real-time enrollment, engagement, and performance data through interactive dashboards directly from the Instructor Dashboard.
Find Any Content in Seconds with Course Search: Search across all your courses (or within one) to instantly locate videos, problems, or text by keyword or tag. Copy and reuse content in just a few clicks, saving hours of hunting through course outlines.
Studio Glowup: Studio will debut a sleek, modernized interface, delivering a consistent, cohesive authoring experience across every page and workflow, built with authoring efficiency in mind.
Share Course Sections Independently: Hide sections from your course outline while sharing direct URLs to them, perfect for distributing evergreen resources, supplemental materials, or reference content that learners need to access throughout the course.
⌚ Ready to Upgrade?#
Have your site operations team check out the Tutor upgrading guide so they can upgrade your Open edX instance to the Quince release!