diff --git a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views.py b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views.py
index 824d2119f1..5938bfe986 100644
--- a/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views.py
+++ b/cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 COMPONENT_TYPES = ['customtag', 'discussion', 'html', 'problem', 'video']
 
 OPEN_ENDED_COMPONENT_TYPES = ["combinedopenended", "peergrading"]
-ADVANCED_COMPONENT_TYPES = ['annotatable'] + OPEN_ENDED_COMPONENT_TYPES
+ADVANCED_COMPONENT_TYPES = ['annotatable', 'word_cloud'] + OPEN_ENDED_COMPONENT_TYPES
 ADVANCED_COMPONENT_CATEGORY = 'advanced'
 ADVANCED_COMPONENT_POLICY_KEY = 'advanced_modules'
 
diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/templates/word_cloud/default.yaml b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/templates/word_cloud/default.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..270ac584d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/templates/word_cloud/default.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+metadata:
+    display_name: Word cloud
+    version: 1
+data: |
+  <word_cloud display_name="cloud" num_inputs="5" num_top_words="250" display_student_percents="True" />
+children: []