diff --git a/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/index.py b/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/index.py
index 4e3f8b6f0a..7a3fd779e8 100644
--- a/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/index.py
+++ b/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/index.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class IndexPage(PageObject):
         Returns a browser query object representing the video modal element
         """
         element = self.q(css=BANNER_SELECTOR)
-        return element.visible and element.text[0].startswith("Welcome to the Open edX")
+        return element.visible and element.text[0].startswith("Welcome to ")
 
     @property
     def banner_element(self):
diff --git a/lms/templates/index_overlay.html b/lms/templates/index_overlay.html
index 393cc7764e..eb69e0532b 100644
--- a/lms/templates/index_overlay.html
+++ b/lms/templates/index_overlay.html
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 from openedx.core.djangolib.markup import HTML, Text
 %>
 
+<h1>${Text(_(u"Welcome to {platform_name}")).format(platform_name=settings.PLATFORM_NAME)}</h1>
 ## Translators: 'Open edX' is a registered trademark, please keep this untranslated. See http://open.edx.org for more information.
-<h1>${Text(_(u"Welcome to the Open edX{registered_trademark} platform!")).format(registered_trademark=HTML("<sup style='font-size: 65%'>&reg;</sup>"))}</h1>
-## Translators: 'Open edX' is a registered trademark, please keep this untranslated. See http://open.edx.org for more information.
-<p>${_("It works! This is the default homepage for this Open edX instance.")}</p>
+<p>${Text(_("It works! Powered by Open edX{registered_trademark}")).format(registered_trademark=HTML("<sup style='font-size: 65%'>&reg;</sup>"))}</p>