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Setting the Course Card Image for Your Course

Add and Manage a Course Card Image in Open edX Studio

Summary

The course card image represents your course visually in the LMS catalog and learner dashboard. A clear and engaging image helps learners easily recognize and differentiate courses.

In Open edX Studio, course authors can configure the course card image from the Schedule & Details section of their course settings. This guide explains how to upload or assign a course card image so that it appears correctly in the LMS.

Tip: Course discovery and marketing-related content are managed through Discovery Admin, the WordPress-based CMS. This article focuses only on configuring the course card image within Studio. Please make sure that you have logged in to your Edly Panel to update this setting.

Description

Prerequisites

  • You have access to Open edX Studio

  • You have course author or admin permissions

  • The course has already been created

What are the course card image requirements?

Recommended guidelines:

  • Format: JPG or PNG

  • Recommended dimensions: 480 × 270 pixels

  • Use a clear and high-resolution image

  • Avoid text-heavy images for better visibility

 

Steps to Set the Course Card Image:

Prerequisite: Log in to your Edly Panel and select Studio from the top navigation bar before proceeding.

    • From the Studio dashboard, select the course for which you want to configure the course card image.

       

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    • Click "Settings" from the top navigation bar. Then select the "Schedule & details" option from the drop-down menu.

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    • On the Schedule & Details page, scroll down to the Course card image section under the Introducing your course heading.Course card image" section, under the heading of 

      Introducing your course.
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    • You can click on any part of the uploading box, and then you will be able to change the image by browsing for an image from your system.

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    • After selecting the image, click Save Changes. If prompted, confirm the selection to apply it.


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Once you save this, the image will be shown on the course in the LMS:

Note:

Where can you find an already-uploaded course card image?

The course card image upload box supports both a direct file upload and a URL to an image already stored in Studio:

  • If you have not yet uploaded the image, click Upload Course Card Image inside the upload box to add the file directly.
  • If you have already uploaded the image via Content > Files & Uploads, copy its web URL from that section and paste it into the image URL field in the upload box.