Course Code: openedxinst
Duration: 7 hours
Prerequisites:
  • Experience with teaching and education

Audience

  • Instructors
  • Course creators
  • Course designers
Overview:

The Open edX platform is an open-source learning management system (LMS). It is a popular platform for hosting MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as well as smaller classes and training modules.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at instructors who wish to use the Open edX platform to create and deliver online courses.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how Open edX's different components work together to enable instructors to design world-class online learning.
  • Use Open edX's course-authoring tool to build an edX course.
  • Blend the right kind of course content and multimedia to enrichen a course.

Format of the Course

  • Interactive lecture and discussion.
  • Lots of exercises and practice.
  • Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

  • To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline:

Introduction

Overview of Open edX Features

Setting up Open edX

Setting up a Course

Preparing the Course Content

Creating Course Sections

Adding Images/Video to the Course

Making a Course Accessible

Adding Downloaded Content

Deploying a Course

Finalizing a Course

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion