Open edX Teak Release (June 2025)

Welcome to the Teak release! This release puts powerful new tools in your hands while making everyday tasks simpler. Here’s what’s ready for you now:

🧑‍🏫 For Course Authors

💡 Easier Content Reuse with Libraries: Using Libraries, authors can now create modular units that can be reused in multiple courses. Updates and changes to content can be managed centrally in Libraries, with changes syncing seamlessly. Save hours of content creation by leveraging libraries for reuse in your courses. Read More ›

📈 Analytics in Studio: Studio now includes In-Context Analytics, enabling course teams to make data-driven course improvements without switching tools. With a new button on Course Outline and Unit pages, authors can view insights like problem correctness rates and video rewatch patterns without leaving the Studio page. Spot struggling students early and adjust your teaching approach in real time. Note: Requires use of the Aspects analytics system. Read More ›

💁‍♀️ More Content Blocks Enabled by Default: To reduce technical barriers and improve discoverability, a curated list of high-value content blocks (e.g., Google Docs, LTI 1.3, Polls, Surveys, Word Cloud) is now enabled by default in Studio. These can be accessed via the new “Advanced” tile in the unit editor. Read More ›

🎨 Studio UI Modernization: Studio now features a modern, streamlined interface by default on all sites. Read More ›

🔢 Problem Editor Updates: Write clearer, more flexible problems with Markdown support in the Problem Editor. Read More ›

🫣 Improved Preview Experience: The “Preview” button in Studio now uses the default student experience rather than the legacy experience, letting authors see content exactly as learners will, improving content validation during authoring. Read More ›

🎓 For Learners

🏅 Give learners credentials they’ll want to share: In addition to certificates, learners can now earn digital badges — a more portable, shareable credential that can be added to social media profiles and email signatures. While certificates provide detailed achievement records, badges offer quick, visual proof of skills that employers and peers can easily recognize. Open edX now integrates directly with Accredible and Credly to issue and manage these badges. Read More ›

⚙️ For Site Operators

✅ More flexibility for your tech team to build custom features: More plugin slots have been added across the platform to support easier customization and extension by your development or operations team. Read More ›

🧑‍💻 Your site, your brand — now faster than ever: Our new theming system takes only seconds to change, switch, and deploy your organization’s brand themes. Customize your site’s look and feel consistently across your full site. We encourage operators to test out this system in Teak; it will be required for any theming customization with the Ulmo upgrade. Read More ›

🔮 Upcoming in Ulmo (December 2025)

We’re working hard on even more improvements in our Ulmo release! You can look forward to:

📚 Advanced Libraries: Build entire course sections once, then reuse them everywhere — imagine updating your intro module across 20 courses with one click!

🔔 Smart Notifications: Never let students miss important discussions again! Keep learners engaged with timely alerts about new posts and announcements, delivered both in-platform and via email.

🔗 Simplified LTI: Tired of wrestling with LTI integrations? Set up credentials once and reuse them across all your tools with our streamlined LTI 1.3 plugin.

✨ Beautiful Course Pages: Your course catalog is getting a major glow-up! New, customizable pages will help you showcase courses with modern design and full theming support.

⚠️ Important: The Ulmo release will require the new theming system. Get ahead of the curve and test it now so your upgrade is seamless!

⌚ Ready to upgrade?

Check out the Tutor upgrading guide!

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