.. _Ulmo Product Marketing Notes:

Open edX Ulmo Release (January 2026)
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Welcome to the Ulmo release! Discover new and exciting features built
for authors, learners, and site operators. Here's what's ready for you now:

🧑‍🏫 For Course Authors
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:ref:`Build Complete Course Structures in Libraries <Ulmo Libraries>`: Build
entire course sections once, then reuse them across courses, with improved sync
workflows that visually show changes before you apply them - plus a migration
tool to move Legacy Library content forward.

:ref:`Granular Roles and Permissions for Libraries <Ulmo Roles and Permissions>`:
Assign Library Admin, Author, Contributor, or User roles with specific
permissions for viewing, editing, publishing, and managing content from a
central :ref:`Administrative Console <Ulmo console>` that shows your entire team
at a glance.

:ref:`Ulmo LTI`: Set up LTI tool credentials once in a central store, then reuse
them across all courses and blocks, eliminating repetitive data entry and
reducing configuration errors across your entire instance.

:ref:`LTI Certified ✅ <Ulmo LTI Certification>`: The Open edX Ulmo Release
has achieved the `LTI Advantage Complete
<https://www.imsglobal.org/lti-advantage-overview>`_ certification!

:ref:`Smaller changes <Ulmo Potpourri>` include a new problem visibility option
and new tools to limit spam in discussion forums.

🎓 For Learners
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:ref:`Beautiful Course Pages <Ulmo catalog>`: Your course catalog is getting a
major glow-up! New, customizable pages help you showcase courses with modern
design and full theming support.

:ref:`Smart Notifications <Ulmo Notifications>`: Never let students miss important discussions again!
Keep learners engaged with timely alerts about new posts and announcements,
delivered both in-platform and via email.

:ref:`Enhanced mobile experience <Mobile Updates (Ulmo)>`: Learners get a new
Course Home carousel showing progress, videos, assignments, and grades at a
glance. Also included is a redesigned Content tab with filtered views and a
dedicated Progress page to track achievement.

⚙️ For Site Operators 
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**Important**: The Ulmo release will require the :ref:`new theming system <Ulmo
Design Tokens>`.

:ref:`More Flexibility To Build Custom Features <Ulmo Frontend Plugin Slots>`: More
plugin slots have been added across the platform to support easier customization
and extension by your development or operations team.

🔮 Upcoming in Verawood (June 2026)
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We're working hard on even more improvements in our :ref:`Verawood release (out
now) <Verawood Product Marketing Notes>`! You can look forward to:

**Roles and Permissions Improvements in Studio**: A more granular, nuanced way
of granting privileges to course staff and instructors.

**Instructor Dashboad Overhaul**: A beautiful, themeable Instructor Dashboard
with numerous usability improvements is coming your way.

**Reliable, Repeatable LTI Units**: Configuration integrity when duplicating LTI
blocks and improved compatibility with Content Libraries, enabling reliable
block-level reusability and reducing the need for repeated configuration across
courses.

**AI Extension Framework**: By leveraging existing backend and frontend plugins,
the Open edX platform will support adding diverse AI tools to the platform (both
LMS and Studio) as extensions.


⌚ Ready to Upgrade?
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Have your site operations team check out the `Tutor upgrading guide
<https://docs.tutor.edly.io/install.html#upgrading>`_ so they can upgrade your
Open edX instance to the Ulmo release!