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Building and Running an Open edX Course
1. General Information
1.1. Read Me
1.2. Other edX Resources
1.3. Open edX Browser Support
2. Getting Started
2.1. Getting Started with Studio
3. Exploring Your Dashboard and Profile
4. Reaching As Many Learners As Possible
4.1. Designing Your Course For a Mobile Experience
5. Accessibility Best Practices Guidance for Content Providers
5.1. What Is The edX Accessibility Best Practices Guidance Based On?
5.2. Supporting Learners with Diverse Needs
5.3. Accessibility Best Practices for Developing Course Content
6. Setting Up a Course
6.1. Planning Course Information
6.1.1. Course Title and Number
6.1.2. Images and Videos for a Course or Program
6.1.3. Course Description
6.1.4. Additional Course Information
6.2. Planning Course Run Information
6.2.1. Planning Course Staff
6.2.2. Scheduling a Course Run
6.2.3. Additional Course Run Information
6.3. Creating a Course
6.3.1. Adding Course Team Members in Studio
6.3.2. Creating a New Course in Studio
6.3.3. Set the Course Run Schedule and Pacing in Studio
6.3.4. Specifying Prerequisite Courses and Exams
6.3.5. Creating a Course About Page in Studio
6.3.6. Setting Up Certificates in Studio
6.3.7. Course Search
6.3.8. Creating a Custom Course
7. Developing Your Course
7.1. Getting Started with Course Content Development
7.2. Developing Your Course Outline
7.3. Developing Course Sections
7.4. Developing Course Subsections
7.5. Developing Course Units
7.6. Developing Course Components
7.7. Controlling Content Visibility and Access
7.8. Course Licensing
7.9. Testing Your Course Content
8. Adding Course Components
8.1. Working with Text Components
8.2. Working with Video Components
8.3. Working with Discussion Components
8.4. Working with Problem Components
8.5. Working with Content Libraries
9. Creating and Adding Video Content
9.1. Video Process Overview
9.2. Preparing a Video
9.2.1. Set Up a Hosting Service
9.2.2. Create a Video
9.2.3. Obtain a Video Transcript
9.3. Upload a Video
9.4. Adding a Video to a Course
9.5. Specifying Additional Video Options
9.6. Specifying Transcript Options
9.7. Troubleshooting Video Problems
10. Adding Exercises and Tools
10.1. Problems, Exercises, and Tools
10.2. Enabling Additional Exercises and Tools
10.3. Annotation Problem
10.4. Calculator Tool
10.5. Chemical Equation Problem
10.6. Circuit Schematic Builder Problem
10.7. Completion Tool
10.8. Conditional Module
10.9. Custom JavaScript Display and Grading Problem
10.10. Custom Python-evaluated Input Problem (Write-Your-Own-Grader)
10.11. Drag and Drop Problem
10.12. Drag and Drop Problem (Deprecated)
10.13. Dropdown Problem
10.14. External Grader
10.15. Full Screen Image Tool
10.16. Gene Explorer Tool
10.17. Google Calendar Tool
10.18. Google Drive Files Tool
10.19. Iframe Tool
10.20. Image Mapped Input Problem
10.21. LTI Component
10.22. Math Expression Input Problems
10.23. MathJax for Mathematics
10.24. Multi-select Problem
10.25. Notes Tool
10.26. Numerical Input Problem
10.27. Open Response Assessments
10.27.1. Introduction to Open Response Assessments
10.27.2. Create an Open Response Assessment Assignment
10.27.3. Managing Open Response Assessment Assignments
10.27.4. Staff Grading for Open Response Assignments
10.27.5. Accessing Metrics for ORA Assignments
10.28. Oppia Exploration Tool
10.29. Peer Instruction Tool
10.30. Periodic Table Tool
10.31. Poll Tool
10.32. Poll Tool for OLX
10.33. Problem with Adaptive Hint
10.34. Problem Written in LaTeX
10.35. Protex Protein Builder Tool
10.36. Qualtrics Survey Tool
10.37. Randomized Content Blocks
10.38. Recommender Tool
10.39. Single Select Problem
10.40. Single Select and Numerical Input Problem
10.41. Staff Graded Assignment
10.42. Survey Tool
10.43. Text Input Problem
10.44. Word Cloud Tool
10.45. Zooming Image Tool
11. Adding Course Assets
11.1. Adding Files to a Course
11.2. Adding Course Updates and Handouts
11.3. Managing the Pages in Your Course
11.4. Textbooks
11.5. Using the Course Wiki
12. Using Enhanced Capabilities In Your Course
12.1. Including Learner Cohorts
12.1.1. Using Cohorts in Your Courses
12.1.2. Enabling and Configuring the Cohorts Feature
12.1.3. Creating Cohort-Specific Course Content
12.1.4. Setting up Discussions in Courses with Cohorts
12.2. Offering Different Content to Different Learner Groups
12.3. Including Teams
12.3.1. Using Teams in Your Courses
12.3.2. The Learner’s Experience of Teams
12.3.3. Managing Team Discussions
12.4. Creating Content Experiments
12.4.1. Overview of Content Experiments
12.4.2. Configure Your Course for Content Experiments
12.4.3. Add Content Experiments to Your Course
12.4.4. Test Content Experiments
12.5. Offering Timed Exams
12.6. Using Open edX as an LTI Tool Provider
12.6.1. Reusing Course Content with LTI
12.6.2. Preparing to Reuse Course Content
12.6.3. Determining Content Addresses
12.6.4. Grading Remote Content
12.6.5. Example: edX as an LTI Provider to Canvas
12.6.6. Example: edX as an LTI Provider to Blackboard
13. Proctored Exams
13.1. Proctored Exam Overview
13.2. Preparing Learners for Proctored Exams
13.3. Creating Proctored Exams
13.4. Online Proctoring Rules for Learners
14. Establishing a Grading Policy For Your Course
14.1. Set the Grade Range
14.2. Set the Grace Period
14.3. Configure the Assignment Types
14.4. Graded Subsections
14.5. The Learner View of Grades
15. Releasing Your Course
15.1. Beta Testing a Course
15.2. Course Launching Activities
15.3. Exporting and Importing a Course
16. Managing a Running Course
16.1. Course Information
16.2. Automatic Email Messages from the Open edX Platform
16.3. Bulk Email Messages from the Course Team
16.4. Enrollment
16.5. Staff Debug Info
17. Managing Discussions
17.1. Creating Course Discussions
17.2. Running Course Discussions
17.3. About Divided Discussion Topics
17.4. Managing Divided Discussion Topics
17.5. Moderating Discussions
17.6. Guidance for Discussion Moderators
18. Managing Learner Progress and Grades
18.1. Learner Data
18.2. Answer Data
18.3. Learner Grades and Grading
18.4. Obtaining Certificate Data
18.5. Ending a Course
19. Re-running Your Course
19.1. Re-running a Course
20. Glossary
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Getting Started
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2.1. Getting Started with Studio
2.1.1. What Is Studio?
2.1.2. What Is the LMS?
