7.5. Enabling Course and Video Licensing

Course staff can specify licensing options for course content as well as for each video in a course.

Course staff can select one of the following license options.

  • All Rights Reserved
  • Creative Commons

By specifying the license, course staff communicate to learners whether and how they can reuse course content.

To enable this feature on your instance of Open edX, you must enable licensing in both Studio and the Learning Management System.

Note

Before proceeding, review Guidelines for Updating the edX Platform.

7.5.1. Enable Licensing in Studio

  1. In the edX Platform installation directory, edit the file /cms/envs/common.py

  2. In the FEATURES dictionary, add 'LICENSING':True:

    FEATURES = {
    'LICENSING': True,
    . . .

  3. Save the /cms/envs/common.py file.

7.5.2. Enable Licensing in the Learning Management System

  1. In the edX Platform installation directory, edit the file /lms/envs/common.py

  2. In the FEATURES dictionary, add 'LICENSING':True:

    FEATURES = {
    'LICENSING': True,
    . . .

  3. Save the /lms/envs/common.py file.