OpenEdX 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

OpenEdX

4.8

(84)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About OpenEdX

OpenEdX is a cloud-based, open-source learning management solution offered by edX. The solution is used by small and midsize businesses to host open online courses and training modules.

The solution allows users to create the course structure and upload content including videos. Managers can organize course schedules, define grading rules and publish courses in parts. A course launch checklist is available as well. Student notes allow learners to highlight texts, and they can track their course progress. Custom certificates and digital badges can be designed.

The solution offers an instructor dashboard with options to generate reports and follow course updates. Its insights tool provides an overview of learner demographics, behavior and performance. Weekly and daily logs of event data can be downloaded. Native iOS and Android apps are available.

Support is provided via an online ticketing system and knowledge base.

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OpenEdX Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $45.00

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Free Version

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$45.00

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OpenEdX Features

Popular features found in Learning Management System
Assessment Management
Asynchronous Learning
Blended Learning
Built-in Course Authoring
Certification & Licensing
Gamification
Learner Portal
Learning Paths/Tracks
Mobile Learning
SCORM Compliance
Synchronous Learning
Training Management
More features of OpenEdX
Academic/Education
Alerts/Notifications
Assignment Management
Certificate Repository
Certificates
Certification Management
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Tracking
Customizable Branding
Customizable Templates
Document Management
Gradebook
Interactive Content
Learning Management
Self Service Portal
Social Learning
Tests/Assessments
Video Conferencing

OpenEdX User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

77%

20%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.6

Usman Zafar M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

The Best MOOC platform for School, Colleges, Universities and organizations

In front of such a great tools on openedx, we are feeling very relaxed as a college administration. All the credit goes to OpenEdX team. Thanks

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

The exciting and most bold thing about OpenEdx is it's one platform for all your learning needs. LMS: They are providing Learning Management System LMS for the learners, instructors, and course teams. It provides access to course content, and other supporting things like discussion boards, collaboration tools, certificate generation etc. It also supports online courses and online degree programs. OpenEdx Studio: openedx studio provides all the instructional course design tools. One can manage all the course authors, course content, course schedule, course team, grading policy and much more. OpenEdx Insights: They are providing intelligent analytics to help instructors understand how learners are engaging with course contents or materials. It's designed to support millions of users. They are providing providing built-in reports to help instructors, school, colleges, universities can easily host tens or hundreds of courses and store data in a warehouse or in LRS. E-commerce integration: They support a large number of products, courses including multi payment options for the buyers or learners like PayPal etc. Edx is the best online learning platform where anyone can learn any course and can get certificate. There are a lot of courses, professional programs and specializations designed to offer latest and updated skills knowledge to help the learners. One can easily learn from international recognized colleges, universities etc.

Cons:

All the tools provided are great for MOOC. It's a great solution for online LMS, MOC platforms. The only thing I like least is that many if the great courses are not affordable for some students which are not free but the great thing on edx is that one can easily apply for price discount using the application and the officials are offering more than 10% discount and it's a great thing for poor or needy students.

Cesar A S.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

The best MOOC site in the web

With EDX I learn a lot about project management, economy and sustainable development. The courses offers had show me how are working some organization to have a better world, using alternative energies and saving a lot of money and resources with it, besides the project management courses had help to organize my own schedule and to begin a new business.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

EDX offers a big range of courses and specializations to improve your knowledge or your academy grade, the quantity of courses offers by EDX are virtually endless and the emcompass a big amount of fields like: project management, development, economy, history, grammar, languages, economy, geography, and so many other that can be so useful for students, academics or general public to learn about an specific topi. EDX offer certificates to check the grade of the course or courses that you do, with this certificate you can improve your resume and demonstrate to the people all that you have learn, even in digital ways this can be possible, because the certificate bring a link to check their authenticated.

Cons:

Since a couple of years EDX does not offer so many free certificates, and this can be a big limation for peoples who has not the money to pay. I think that EDX must offer the opportinity to have in every course that they offer a free certified, this can be a great opportunity for people of poors contries to improve their knowledge and abilities and to show it to the others.

Verified

Reviewer

Arts and Crafts

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

provides good interface

Since I used it seems to work well

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

It's cool and outstanding However, Atleast it has some few errors which make it to become very slow sometimes it takes minutes to open up

Cons:

Very friendly and useful as it's produce number of required skills in real life situation

Tohibullah M.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Storehouse of knowledge through online courses from the best faculties and mentors

Preferred online destination to learn from the best faculties and mentors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Their courses cover almost all the fields starting from languages to technology, religion to crafts. They are one of the best online education service providers giving an option to audit most of their courses for free. The other option is to pursue a verified certificate by paying a fee. It is a win-win for all. Those who are affluent, paying a fee can be like paying a donation! The other advantage of going for a paid certificate is the motivation to learn when you get something by paying your hard earned income instead of free. Not to say, the recognition of a paid certificate by edx also makes your CV/profile appear more professional.

Cons:

Despite all the hypes towards video, I still prefer learning the traditional way in a book format, which can be ebook (pdf) in today's digital age. I find their way of organizing learning materials confusing and rather obstructing.

Victor N.

Verified reviewer

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Edx thousands of courses for all people, the knowledge available to everyone

EdX is a platform that allows you to access endless sources of knowledge and experience. the access to this knowledge is made through tools designed by the best universities in the world and with the different levels of access, it is presented as a great opportunity for all people

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Value for money

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Pros:

The platform gives you an extraordinary search engine that fits the requirements of all. thousands of universities offer tested and guaranteed courses to acquire knowledge in any area you want, from robotics, languages, culture, history, project management, smart cities, big data, are a sample of what you can get in EdX. You handle learning process at your own pace, with the option of personalized or general certificates. EdX is an excellent option for self-taught knowledgeable people, allows advance in areas of knowledge through the development of courses designed as programs. offer courses in multiple languages and even the techniques to learn these languages The management of time in the courses is well defined, this allows users to organize their agendas and can participate in several courses simultaneously. the knowledge programs are carried out through timelines. the level of difficulty, hours of dedication and connection with other courses are indicated in each course

Cons:

The time the certificates are sent depends on the university responsible for the course and it may take a few months for them to be sent to you.

Jonathan A.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

It is an excellent platform, with material of high academic content, very updated with the latest tr

I have done several courses that are on the platform, which have given a value in my career, I have applied several study techniques that have increased my learning ability.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

What I like most is that you can do the courses as a completely free auditor, this is supported by many universities, you have many videos that make the courses easier and they are in several languages.

Cons:

I would like the evaluations to be more interactive with videos and dynamic exercises, that in the courses have laboratories totake virtual practices.

Ann M. F.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Easiest way to take online classes

I have taken both for credit classes and non credit classes online with OpenEdX. In every case, the experience was enjoyable (even when the subject matter wasn't or was challenging). As noted, take the time up front to get familiar with the application including the various formats of support materials and where to navigate to. I don't hesitate to take a class online with OpenEdX because I know the access and navigation will not be stressful. I have found other education platforms via local universities to be much more challenging and require more support. Thank you for having such a nice way to further my education

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to access and navigate to and within from anywhere. This makes taking classes online enjoyable and a valuable.

Cons:

Each class can be set up a bit differently, so when you start a class you do need to take the time to get acquainted with the class, files, and support formats including video and audio

Karamveer S.

Verified reviewer

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

I am learning from edx since last 5 years and i have wonderful experience of using it.

I have learnt from various courses from foreign universities. Wonderful and very informative content.

Ratings Breakdown

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Functionality

Pros:

1. We can explore new courses as per need 2. We can add subtitle of videos 3. It's very easy to use on web

Cons:

1. Edx app 's user interface can be modified to make user experience better. 2. It can be multilingual (Hindi,Gujarati etc.) 3. Offline access of content can be added in app 4. Can add option to share the course

pratibha r.

Verified reviewer

Management Consulting

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Excellent software for open source learning

Overall, the software is the best for open learning with flexible pricing options. It is easily accessible to all and has learning options for all the subjects and technology.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

EdX is one the best software for learning anything and everything in the most convenient, simple and accessible way. There are various courses available in all the fields known, which cater to the needs of modern education as a whole. The video lectures are clear and have subtitles along in different languages which make it accessible to all. There are various features like drag and drop, enrolling in various courses at the same time and also pricing and certification options as per the students needs.

Cons:

There are some self paced course which have different soft wares used to which links are not easily available and hence there should be proper guidance for this. Personalized chat sessions with the mentor should also be available,making the interaction easier.

Raquel A.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Courses online for professionals of all ages

The opportunity to studying and learning a lot about new tendencies in the administration market and in the data analysis world.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

It is awesome have the opportunity to continue learning after of years of leave the college, EDX offers courses of so many features but my favorites are the ones related to administration, organization and data analysis, there are so many tools in the market like R Programming, Python, Advanced Excel and so many others of which EDX offers courses for professionals. The content of the courses is awesome always updated and the videos helps a lot to understand these new tools and tendencies in the administration and data analysis world.

Cons:

All the courses has a certified but unfortunately all that I choose are for pay, so I still did not have the opportunity to access to a certified to check my knowledge and add to my curriculum. I think that they must offer free certificates for people of some countries, like all the countries of Latin America.

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