What is Edge?
- Edge is the edX platform offered to the institution to develop courses in a low-visible environment
- Edge provides you with a space to experiment with online course development. Building in the Edge environment is pretty straight forward.
- Typically the platform is closed and has limited enrollment (for example, limited to the students participating in a course offered through campus unit), whereas MOOCs are open enrollment for everyone.
- Its functionality is identical to that of the known edx.org platform
What is the difference between edX and edge?
- edX is the home of MOOCs and open to the world while edge is open to on-campus courses.
- The platform technology is the same, edX/open edX.
- Usually, we develop on edge to experiment with to them move to the MOOC platform.
What are the environments available?
- Delivery environment - edge.edx.org (“Edge”)
- Authoring environment - studio.edge.edx.org
What does it cost to create and deliver a course on Edge?
- The use of the edX authoring and delivery platform are available to all UT instructors to create and deliver courses
- The cost is the cost of your time to design and develop content for the course.
Does it have eid integration?
There is no eid integration, registrants register for the course through email.
Where do I start?
- Take the self-service course “EdX 101” to understand what features are available in the platform to guide your decision of using it
- Start by getting access to edX Edge Studio (the authoring environment) and learning how it works.
- Send an email to sejal@austin.utexas.edu with the email you registered, to request a sandbox course
- Once your account is setup and you have received confirmation for your sandbox, you can start creating your course.
There are various resources edX offers to support course development.- Try the EdX Help pages
- As a partner institution faculty can email partner-support@edx.org to receive technical support
Example of various instructional components