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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

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: Please make sure that you have logged in to your Edly Panel, and that you have selected "Studio" from the top navigation bar

    • 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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    • After landing on the "Schedule & details" page, you need to scroll down until you find the "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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    • Save Changes: After selecting the image, save your changes. The platform will usually prompt you to confirm the selection.


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

Note: The web link of the image can be obtained from the Files & Uploads section in the Content dropdown menu if you have already uploaded the image in the Files & Uploads area. Click on the Upload Course Card Image button if you have not already uploaded the image in Files & Uploads.