diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 88baa7f7b2e..8657b74e7fc 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -95,7 +95,13 @@ def process_docstring(app, what, name, obj, options, lines):
 
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
 # coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
-extensions = ["sphinx.ext.autodoc", "sphinx.ext.viewcode", "m2r", "notfound.extension"]
+extensions = [
+    "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
+    "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
+    "m2r",
+    "notfound.extension",
+    "sphinxcontrib.jquery",
+]
 
 linkcheck_ignore = [
     "https://groups.google.com/a/learningequality.org/forum/#!forum/dev"
diff --git a/requirements/docs.txt b/requirements/docs.txt
index afd8175e810..362299922c9 100644
--- a/requirements/docs.txt
+++ b/requirements/docs.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 -r base.txt
 
 # These are for building the docs
-sphinx
+
+# Sphinx stack requires a version of requests that's incompatible with Morango, so downgrading
+sphinx>=6,<7
 sphinx-intl
-sphinx-rtd-theme
+# We want to ensure the latest version of sphinx-rtd-theme that has sphinxcontrib-jquery as a dependency
+sphinx-rtd-theme~=2.0
 sphinx-autobuild
 m2r
 sphinx-notfound-page