Tools for course creators to build, organize, and publish educational content at scale.
4 feature areas
Course & Pathway Creation covers the tools content authors use to build and publish courses and programs — the course outline editor, unit editing interface, settings pages, and program authoring tools. Studio is Open edX's authoring environment and one of its most significant differentiators from competing LMS platforms.
Flexible Content Libraries allow course authors to create reusable content blocks that can be referenced across multiple courses — useful for shared questions, standardized content, and random problem selection. Libraries decouple content authoring from course structure.
Taxonomies & Organization covers tools for categorizing and organizing course content and metadata — including content tagging (applying taxonomy tags to courses and content blocks), taxonomy management, and course organization metadata (language, level, subjects).
Assessment & Grading covers how authors define learning assessments — from simple multiple-choice problems (CAPA) to open-response essays (ORA), drag-and-drop exercises, proctored exams, and staff-graded assignments. It also covers the grading policy framework that determines how component grades roll up to course grades.