Create and Publish Your First Open edX Course — Beginner’s Guide

Create and publish your first Open edX course in Studio, then enroll a separate learner and verify the result from that learner’s own browser session. This beginner-friendly walkthrough covers course identity and scheduling, Open edX’s section → subsection → unit → component structure, a Text component, a Single Select knowledge check, Preview versus published content, enrollment, and a successful learner submission with feedback. ▶ Install Open edX with Tutor first:    • Install Open edX Verawood with Tutor — Beg...   ▶ Open edX Foundation playlist:    • Open edX Foundation   🌐 OpenEduOps: https://openeduops.com In this video: • Create a small self-paced course in Open edX Studio • Configure enrollment and course start dates • Build a section, subsection, unit, Text component, and Single Select problem • Compare Preview with the learner-facing published course • Publish the course and enroll a prepared non-staff learner • Verify access, submit the correct answer, and confirm feedback in a separate browser session Demonstrated environment: • Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS on AMD64 • Tutor 22.0.1 • Open edX Verawood (release/verawood.1) • Tutor local deployment on one public server • Existing LMS and Studio endpoints over HTTPS Version note: This walkthrough is pinned to Tutor 22.0.1 and Open edX Verawood. Labels and screen layouts may differ in later releases or customized installations. Scope note: The example is intentionally small and proves the operational path from authoring to learner interaction. It is not a complete instructional-design course and does not cover public registration and email delivery, certificates, advanced grading, detailed roles, bulk enrollment, accessibility certification, or production-scale course design. Chapters: 00:00 From Studio to a learner submission 00:39 Create the course 02:24 Set the schedule 04:05 Build course structure and content 06:42 Preview and publish 08:05 Enroll the learner 09:20 Verify the learner experience 10:50 Result and what comes next Official Open edX documentation: • Build a course: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/ed... • Set the course schedule: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/ed... • Manage units: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/ed... • Preview content: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/ed... • Manage course enrollments: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/ed... #OpenEdX #OpenSourceLMS #LMS