diff --git a/cms/static/js/views/pages/group_configurations.js b/cms/static/js/views/pages/group_configurations.js
index e609fe8896..7965f305ec 100644
--- a/cms/static/js/views/pages/group_configurations.js
+++ b/cms/static/js/views/pages/group_configurations.js
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 define([
-    'jquery', 'underscore', 'gettext', 'js/views/baseview',
+    'jquery', 'underscore', 'gettext', 'js/views/pages/base_page',
     'js/views/group_configurations_list'
 ],
-function ($, _, gettext, BaseView, GroupConfigurationsList) {
+function ($, _, gettext, BasePage, GroupConfigurationsList) {
     'use strict';
-    var GroupConfigurationsPage = BaseView.extend({
+    var GroupConfigurationsPage = BasePage.extend({
         initialize: function() {
-            BaseView.prototype.initialize.call(this);
+            BasePage.prototype.initialize.call(this);
             this.listView = new GroupConfigurationsList({
                 collection: this.collection
             });
         },
 
-        render: function() {
+        renderPage: function() {
             var hash = this.getLocationHash();
-            this.hideLoadingIndicator();
-            this.$('.content-primary').append(this.listView.render().el);
+            this.$el.append(this.listView.render().el);
             this.addButtonActions();
-            this.addWindowActions();
+            this.addWindowActions();           
             if (hash) {
                 // Strip leading '#' to get id string to match
-                this.expandConfiguration(hash.replace('#', ''))
+                this.expandConfiguration(hash.replace('#', ''));
             }
+            return $.Deferred().resolve().promise();
         },
 
         addButtonActions: function () {
diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py
index 6ca71dcd31..ac6e7d4740 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/mongo/base.py
@@ -1011,7 +1011,8 @@ class MongoModuleStore(ModuleStoreDraftAndPublished, ModuleStoreWriteBase):
         xblock = self.create_xmodule(location, **kwargs)
         xblock = self.update_item(xblock, user_id, allow_not_found=True)
 
-        return xblock
+        # Retrieve the item from the store so that it has edit info attributes
+        return self.get_item(xblock.location)
 
     def create_child(self, user_id, parent_usage_key, block_type, block_id=None, **kwargs):
         """
diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/tests/test_mixed_modulestore.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/tests/test_mixed_modulestore.py
index 36ed33a2c5..0d6efd0c5c 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/tests/test_mixed_modulestore.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/tests/test_mixed_modulestore.py
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ class TestMixedModuleStore(unittest.TestCase):
         """
         self.initdb(default_ms)
         item = self.store.create_item(
-            self.course_locations[self.MONGO_COURSEID], 'problem', self.user_id, block_id='orphan'
+            self.user_id, self.course_locations[self.MONGO_COURSEID].course_key, 'problem', block_id='orphan'
         )
         self.assertTrue(self.store.has_changes(item.location))
         self.store.publish(item.location, self.user_id)
@@ -618,10 +618,13 @@ class TestMixedModuleStore(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(parent, self.course_locations[self.XML_COURSEID1])
 
     def verify_get_parent_locations_results(self, expected_results):
+        def branch_agnostic(location):
+            return location if location is None else location.for_branch(None)
+
         for child_location, parent_location, revision in expected_results:
             self.assertEqual(
-                parent_location,
-                self.store.get_parent_location(child_location, revision=revision)
+                branch_agnostic(parent_location),
+                branch_agnostic(self.store.get_parent_location(child_location, revision=revision))
             )
 
     @ddt.data('draft', 'split')