diff --git a/app.json b/app.json
index 52b749d30b..fa40538047 100644
--- a/app.json
+++ b/app.json
@@ -352,6 +352,10 @@
       "description": "Shared secret for JWT auth tokens",
       "required": false
     },
+    "MITOL_NOINDEX": {
+      "description": "Prevent search engines from indexing the site",
+      "required": false
+    },
     "MITOL_SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT": {
       "description": "Application-level SSL redirect setting.",
       "value": "True",
diff --git a/frontends/mit-learn/public/index.html b/frontends/mit-learn/public/index.html
index 3a53a522fa..db71cb559f 100644
--- a/frontends/mit-learn/public/index.html
+++ b/frontends/mit-learn/public/index.html
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
   <head>
     <meta charset="UTF-8" />
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
+    <% if (MITOL_NOINDEX) { %>
+    <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
+    <% } %>
     <!--
       Font files for Adobe Neue Haas Grotesk.
       WARNING: This is linked to chudzick@mit.edu's Adobe account.
diff --git a/frontends/mit-learn/webpack.config.js b/frontends/mit-learn/webpack.config.js
index 0243837fce..7e49fd3bbb 100644
--- a/frontends/mit-learn/webpack.config.js
+++ b/frontends/mit-learn/webpack.config.js
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ const {
   SENTRY_PROFILES_SAMPLE_RATE,
   CSRF_COOKIE_NAME,
   APPZI_URL,
+  MITOL_NOINDEX,
 } = cleanEnv(process.env, {
   NODE_ENV: str({
     choices: ["development", "production", "test"],
@@ -119,6 +120,10 @@ const {
     desc: "URL for the Appzi feedback widget",
     default: "",
   }),
+  MITOL_NOINDEX: bool({
+    desc: "Whether to include a noindex meta tag",
+    default: true,
+  }),
 })
 
 const MITOL_FEATURES_PREFIX = "FEATURE_"
@@ -216,6 +221,7 @@ module.exports = (env, argv) => {
         template: "public/index.html",
         templateParameters: {
           APPZI_URL,
+          MITOL_NOINDEX,
         },
       }),
       new CopyPlugin({
diff --git a/main/settings.py b/main/settings.py
index 340de4f3fa..7fc95c8513 100644
--- a/main/settings.py
+++ b/main/settings.py
@@ -763,3 +763,6 @@ def get_all_config_keys():
     name="POSTHOG_PROJECT_ID",
     default=None,
 )
+
+# Enable or disable search engine indexing
+MITOL_NOINDEX = get_bool("MITOL_NOINDEX", True)  # noqa: FBT003
