diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 96e66bd..66b6859 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ python:
   - "2.7"
   - "3.5"
 
-virtualenv:
-  system_site_packages: true
+install:
+  - make requirements
 
 script:
   - make quality
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 77c5f44..56eef22 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@ quality: ## run quality checkers on the codebase
 	pycodestyle scormxblock --max-line-length=120
 	pylint scormxblock
 
+requirements: ## install development environment requirements
+	pip install -r requirements.txt --exists-action w
+	pip install -r requirements-dev.txt --exists-action w
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc549ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+XBlock>=1.2
+
+edx-opaque-keys>=0.4
+Django~=1.11; python_version == '2.7'
+Django~=2.2; python_version > '2.7'
+-e git://github.com/edx/xblock-utils.git#egg=xblock-utils
+
+pylint
+pycodestyle==2.4.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e78ac98..b7d082f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-XBlock>=1.2
 
-edx-opaque-keys>=0.4
-Django~=1.11; python_version == '2.7'
-Django~=2.2; python_version > '2.7'
--e git+https://github.com/edx/xblock-utils.git@2.0.0#egg=xblock-utils
+-e git://github.com/edx/xblock-utils.git#egg=xblock-utils
 -e .
 
-pylint
-pycodestyle==2.4.0