Create a New Legacy Library#
Use legacy content libraries to build a pool of components that can be used in randomized assignments in your courses.
Warning
The Legacy Libraries feature will be supported through Ulmo, moving to unsupported in Verawood. Ulmo will include a one-click migration feature that will make it easy to convert a Legacy Library into the new Library interface.
See The Content Libraries Redesign Initiative for more information.
To create a new legacy library, follow these steps.
Log in to Studio.
Select Legacy Libraries, then New Library.
Enter the required information for your new legacy library, then select Create.
Note
Enter new legacy library information carefully. The values in these fields become part of the URL for your legacy library, therefore the total number of characters in the Library Name, Organization, and Library Code fields must be 65 or fewer.
For Library Name, enter the public display name for your legacy library. Choose a meaningful name that will help you and other course team members to identify the legacy library. For example, “Level 200 Math Problems”. When you add a randomized content block to a course unit, you use the legacy library name to specify this legacy library as a source for the randomized assignment.
For Organization, enter the identifier for your university. For example, enter HarvardX or MITx. Do not include spaces or special characters.
For Library Code, enter an identifier for your legacy library that is unique within your organization. This code becomes part of the URL for your legacy library, so do not include spaces or special characters in the code.
Select Create.
You see the new legacy library, to which you can now add components. For information about adding components to a legacy library, see Add Components to a Legacy Library.
After you create a legacy library, you are automatically assigned an Admin role for the legacy library. For information about adding other users to a legacy library after you create it, see Give Other Users Access to Your Legacy Library.
See also
The Content Libraries Redesign Initiative
Legacy Content Libraries v1 Overview (concept)
Edit a Legacy Library (how-to)
Add Components to a Legacy Library (how-to)
View the Contents of a Legacy Library (how-to)
Edit Components in a Legacy Library (how-to)
Delete a Legacy Library (how-to)
Maintenance chart
Review Date |
Working Group Reviewer |
Release |
Test situation |
2025-07-31 |
sarina |
Teak |
Deprecated |
07/01/2025 |
Leira (Curricu.me) |
Sumac |
Pass |