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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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2. Getting Started#

  • 2.1. Getting Started with Studio
    • 2.1.1. What Is Studio?
    • 2.1.2. What Is the LMS?

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