4. Configuring the Open edX Platform

The following sections provide information about Open edX Platform configuration options.

• 4.1. Guidelines for Updating the Open edX Platform
• 4.2. Configuring Open edX Sites
  • 4.2.1. Create an Open edX Site
  • 4.2.2. Configuring Sites Independently
• 4.3. Changing the Appearance of Open edX Sites
  • 4.3.1. Changing Themes for an Open edX Site
  • 4.3.2. Styling Drag and Drop Problems
• 4.4. Adding Custom Fields to the Registration Page
  • 4.4.1. Overview
  • 4.4.2. Add Custom Fields to the Registration Page
• 4.5. Specifying Allowed Registration Email Patterns
  • 4.5.1. Overview
  • 4.5.2. Configure Allowed Email Patterns
• 4.6. Adding the CourseTalk Widget
  • 4.6.1. Overview
  • 4.6.2. Add the CourseTalk Widget
• 4.7. Enabling Open edX Search
  • 4.7.1. Overview
  • 4.7.2. Search Engines and edX Search
  • 4.7.3. EdX Search Requirements
  • 4.7.4. Install edX Search
  • 4.7.5. Enable Indexing
  • 4.7.6. Supported Flags
• 4.8. Enabling Badging
  • 4.8.1. Overview
  • 4.8.2. Prerequisites
  • 4.8.3. Enable Badges in Studio and the Learning Management System
  • 4.8.4. Enable Badges Within Each Course
  • 4.8.5. Configure Badges for Your Open edX Instance
  • 4.8.6. Create Course Completion Badges for Your Open edX Instance
  • 4.8.7. Create Course Event Badges for Your Open edX Instance
  • 4.8.8. Creating New Badges for Your Open edX Instance
• 4.9. Enabling Course Certificates
  • 4.9.1. Course Certificates Overview
  • 4.9.2. Enable Course Certificates in Studio and the LMS
  • 4.9.3. Configuring Course Certificates in Studio
  • 4.9.4. Configure Course Certificates for Your Open edX Instance
  • 4.9.5. Customize Certificate Templates For Your Organization
  • 4.9.6. Enable Certificates in Additional Languages
  • 4.9.7. Display Hours of Effort on Course Certificates
  • 4.9.8. Enable Automatic Certificate Generation
  • 4.9.9. Manually Generate Certificates For a Course
• 4.10. Enabling Self-Paced Courses
  • 4.10.1. Overview
  • 4.10.2. Enable Self-Paced Courses in the Learning Management System
• 4.11. Enabling Public Course Content
  • 4.11.1. Public Course Content and Search Engines
  • 4.11.2. Enable Public Course Content in the Admin
  • 4.11.3. Set Visibility for a Course in Studio
  • 4.11.4. Feature Limitations
• 4.12. Enabling Custom Courses
• 4.13. Enabling Custom Course Settings
• 4.14. Enabling Discussion Notifications
  • 4.14.1. Requirements for Discussion Notifications
  • 4.14.2. Enable Discussion Notifications
• 4.15. Enabling Entrance Exams
  • 4.15.1. Overview
  • 4.15.2. Configure the Milestones Application
  • 4.15.3. Enable Entrance Exams in Studio and the Learning Management System
• 4.16. Configuring Open Response Assessments
  • 4.16.1. Configuring ORA2 to Upload Files to Alternative Storage Systems
  • 4.16.2. Prohibiting Submission of Specified File Types
• 4.17. Enabling Course Prerequisites
  • 4.17.1. Overview
  • 4.17.2. Configure the Milestones Application
  • 4.17.3. Enable Prerequisite Courses in Studio and the Learning Management System
• 4.18. Enabling Course and Video Licensing
  • 4.18.1. Overview
  • 4.18.2. Enable Licensing in Studio
• 4.19. Configuring Transcript Behavior
  • 4.19.1. Configuring the Transcript Feature Flag
• 4.20. Configuring an edX Instance as an LTI Tool Provider
  • 4.20.1. Enable LTI Provider Functionality
  • 4.20.2. Configuring Credentials for a Tool Consumer
  • 4.20.3. Define an Interval for Grade Aggregation (Optional)
  • 4.20.4. Options for LTI Authentication and User Provisioning
  • 4.20.5. Configuring Open edX User Authentication for LTI
• 4.21. Enabling Social Sharing of Courses and Certificates
  • 4.21.1. Overview
  • 4.21.2. Configure Social Sharing
  • 4.21.3. Enable Custom Course URLs
• 4.22. Configuring a Password Policy
  • 4.22.1. Overview
  • 4.22.2. Creating a Password Validator
  • 4.22.3. Configuring a Password Validator
• 4.23. Enabling Third Party Authentication
  • 4.23.1. Supported Identity Providers
  • 4.23.2. SSO Behavior
  • 4.23.3. Integrating Third Party Authentication in Open edX
  • 4.23.4. Configuring your Open edX Site as a SAML Service Provider
  • 4.23.5. Advanced Third Party Authentication Features
  • 4.23.6. Eliminating PII From Third-Party Authentication
  • 4.23.7. Third Party Auth ID Mapping API
• 4.24. Enabling Timed Exams
  • 4.24.1. Overview
  • 4.24.2. Enable Timed Exams in Studio and the Learning Management System
• 4.25. Enabling the User Retirement Feature
  • 4.25.1. Implementation Overview
  • 4.25.2. Setting Up User Retirement in the LMS
  • 4.25.3. Setting Up the User Retirement Driver Scripts
  • 4.25.4. Handling Special Cases
• 4.26. Setting Up the YouTube API Key
  • 4.26.1. Overview
  • 4.26.2. Get a YouTube API Key
  • 4.26.3. Install the YouTube API Key in Open edX
• 4.27. Installing an XBlock
• 4.28. Enabling a CDN for Course Assets
  • 4.28.1. Overview
  • 4.28.2. Guidelines for CDN Configuration
  • 4.28.3. Enable the CDN
• 4.29. Enabling the Weekly Learning Goals Feature
  • 4.29.1. Overview
  • 4.29.2. Enable the feature
• 4.30. Retrieving Extended Profile Metadata
  • 4.30.1. Overview