diff --git a/common/djangoapps/student/management/commands/create_user.py b/common/djangoapps/student/management/commands/create_user.py
index bf4c084dca..d375dedc54 100644
--- a/common/djangoapps/student/management/commands/create_user.py
+++ b/common/djangoapps/student/management/commands/create_user.py
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ from student.models import CourseEnrollment, Registration
 from student.views import _do_create_account
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 
+from track.management.tracked_command import TrackedCommand
 
-class Command(BaseCommand):
+
+class Command(TrackedCommand):
     help = """
     This command creates and registers a user in a given course
     as "audit", "verified" or "honor".
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/management/__init__.py b/common/djangoapps/track/management/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/management/tests/test_tracked_command.py b/common/djangoapps/track/management/tests/test_tracked_command.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..695703a192
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/djangoapps/track/management/tests/test_tracked_command.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import json
+from StringIO import StringIO
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+from eventtracking import tracker as eventtracker
+
+from track.management.tracked_command import TrackedCommand
+
+
+class DummyCommand(TrackedCommand):
+    """A locally-defined command, for testing, that returns the current context as a JSON string."""
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        return json.dumps(eventtracker.get_tracker().resolve_context())
+
+
+class CommandsTestBase(TestCase):
+
+    def _run_dummy_command(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Runs the test command's execute method directly, and outputs a dict of the current context."""
+        out = StringIO()
+        DummyCommand().execute(*args, stdout=out, **kwargs)
+        out.seek(0)
+        return json.loads(out.read())
+
+    def test_command(self):
+        args = ['whee']
+        kwargs = {'key1': 'default', 'key2': True}
+        json_out = self._run_dummy_command(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.assertEquals(json_out['command'], 'unknown')
diff --git a/common/djangoapps/track/management/tracked_command.py b/common/djangoapps/track/management/tracked_command.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c22cd4093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/djangoapps/track/management/tracked_command.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+"""Provides management command calling info to tracking context."""
+
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
+
+from eventtracking import tracker
+
+
+class TrackedCommand(BaseCommand):
+    """
+    Provides management command calling info to tracking context.
+
+    Information provided to context includes the following value:
+
+    'command': the program name and the subcommand used to run a management command.
+
+    In future, other values (such as args and options) could be added as needed.
+
+    An example tracking log entry resulting from running the 'create_user' management command:
+
+    {
+        "username": "anonymous",
+        "host": "",
+        "event_source": "server",
+        "event_type": "edx.course.enrollment.activated",
+        "context": {
+            "course_id": "edX/Open_DemoX/edx_demo_course",
+            "org_id": "edX",
+            "command": "./manage.py create_user",
+        },
+        "time": "2014-01-06T15:59:49.599522+00:00",
+        "ip": "",
+        "event": {
+            "course_id": "edX/Open_DemoX/edx_demo_course",
+            "user_id": 29,
+            "mode": "verified"
+        },
+        "agent": "",
+        "page": null
+    }
+
+    The name of the context used to add (and remove) these values is "edx.mgmt.command".
+    The context name is used to allow the context additions to be scoped, but doesn't
+    appear in the context itself.
+    """
+    prog_name = 'unknown'
+
+    def create_parser(self, prog_name, subcommand):
+        """Wraps create_parser to snag command line info."""
+        self.prog_name = "{} {}".format(prog_name, subcommand)
+        return super(TrackedCommand, self).create_parser(prog_name, subcommand)
+
+    def execute(self, *args, **options):
+        """Wraps base execute() to add command line to tracking context."""
+        context = {
+            'command': self.prog_name,
+        }
+        COMMAND_CONTEXT_NAME = 'edx.mgmt.command'
+        with tracker.get_tracker().context(COMMAND_CONTEXT_NAME, context):
+            super(TrackedCommand, self).execute(*args, **options)