docs: add note about feature toggles (#1694)

Co-authored-by: Jillian Vogel <[email protected]>

docs/developers_guide.rst

@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ This must be done from inside either lms or studio docker container.
 In order to simulate a given tox environment (django18, django111, quality, js), run tox -e <env> for the env in question (after re-activating your edx-ora2 virtual environment).
 Usually, you can just run the underlying make commands for quicker tests, as requirements aren't re-installed.
 
+Enabling/disabling features
+---------------------------------------
+ORA code observes several feature toggles for enabling/disabling functionality. For 
+development purposes, these can be enabled locally in your ``edx-platform`` instance 
+or in ``/settings/base.py``. See ``settings/base.py`` for ORA-specific toggles and 
+linked documentation.
+
 Working with submission dependencies
 ------------------------------------
 ORA code also depends on edx-submissions. As a result, anytime a new version of edx-submissions is released, ORA code must be updated as follows.