“Course Instructor” advanced setting usage in course metadata

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Hi everyone,

I was checking the Course Instructor advanced setting in Open edX Studio, but I couldn’t find any official documentation explaining how this field works.

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In Studio, under Advanced Settings, I can see the field with a default value like:

{
  "instructors": []
}

I also tried adding JSON data for an instructor, for example:

{
  "instructors": [
    {
      "name": "John Doe",
      "title": "Course Instructor",
      "organization": "Example Academy",
      "bio": "Short instructor bio."
    }
  ]
}

What I tested

  • Opened a course in Studio

  • Went to Settings → Advanced Settings

  • Updated the Course Instructor field with instructor JSON data

  • Saved the changes

  • Republished the course

  • Checked the course About page and course card

Expected behavior

  • Instructor information should be displayed somewhere on the course page, About page, or course card

  • Or the field should be used by some platform API/template

Actual behavior

  • I could not see any visible change in the LMS

  • Instructor details were not displayed on the course card

  • Instructor details were not visible on the course About page

  • I could not confirm where this field is consumed

From testing, it looks like this field may be stored as course metadata, but I am not sure whether it is actively used by default Open edX templates or MFEs.

Is the Course Instructor advanced setting still supported in current Open edX releases?

If yes, where should the added instructor details be visible?

Also, is there any specific JSON structure expected for this field, or does it depend completely on the active theme/course About template?

I am currently checking this on Ulmo.