Building and Running an edX Course
1. General Information
1.1. Read Me
1.2. Other edX Resources
1.3. edX Browser Support
1.4. Change Log
1.5. Change Log for 2015
1.6. Change Log for 2013 through 2014
2. Getting Started
2.1. Getting Started with edX
2.2. Exploring Your Dashboard, Settings, and Profile
2.3. Getting Started with Studio
3. Reaching As Many Learners As Possible
3.1. Designing Your Course For a Mobile Experience
4. Accessibility Best Practices Guidance for Content Providers
4.1. What Is The EdX Accessibility Best Practices Guidance Based On?
4.2. Supporting Learners with Diverse Needs
4.3. Accessibility Best Practices for Developing Course Content
5. Setting Up Your Course
5.1. Creating a Course
5.2. Licensing a Course
5.3. Setting Start and End Dates
5.4. Setting Course Pacing
5.5. Setting Details About Your Course
5.6. Staffing
5.7. Setting Up Course Certificates
6. Developing Your Course
6.1. Getting Started with Course Content Development
6.2. Developing Your Course Outline
6.3. Developing Course Sections
6.4. Developing Course Subsections
6.5. Developing Course Units
6.6. Developing Course Components
6.7. Controlling Content Visibility
6.8. Testing Your Course Content
7. Adding Course Components
7.1. Working with HTML Components
7.2. Working with Video Components
7.3. Working with Discussion Components
7.4. Working with Problem Components
7.5. Working with Content Libraries
8. Adding Video Content
8.1. Video Processing Overview
8.2. Getting Started with Video
8.3. Uploading Videos in Studio
8.4. Adding Videos to a Course
9. Adding Exercises and Tools
9.1. Problems, Exercises, and Tools
9.2. Enabling Additional Exercises and Tools
9.3. Annotation Problem
9.4. Calculator Tool
9.5. Checkbox Problem
9.6. Chemical Equation Problem
9.7. Circuit Schematic Builder Problem
9.8. Conditional Module
9.9. Completion Tool
9.10. Custom JavaScript Display and Grading Problem
9.11. Drag and Drop Problem
9.12. Drag and Drop Problem (Deprecated)
9.13. Dropdown Problem
9.14. External Grader
9.15. Full Screen Image Tool
9.16. Gene Explorer Tool
9.17. Google Calendar Tool
9.18. Google Drive Files Tool
9.19. Iframe Tool
9.20. Image Mapped Input Problem
9.21. LTI Component
9.22. Math Expression Input Problems
9.23. Molecule Editor Tool
9.24. Molecule Viewer Tool
9.25. Multiple Choice Problem
9.26. Multiple Choice and Numerical Input Problem
9.27. Notes Tool
9.28. Numerical Input Problem
9.29. Office Mix Tool
9.30. Open Response Assessments
9.31. Oppia Exploration Tool
9.32. Peer Instruction Tool
9.33. Periodic Table Tool
9.34. Poll Tool
9.35. Poll Tool for OLX
9.36. Problem with Adaptive Hint
9.37. Problem Written in LaTeX
9.38. Protex Protein Builder Tool
9.39. Qualtrics Survey Tool
9.40. Randomized Content Blocks
9.41. Recommender Tool
9.42. Survey Tool
9.43. Text Input Problem
9.44. Word Cloud Tool
9.45. Write-Your-Own-Grader Problem
9.46. Zooming Image Tool
9.47. Using MathJax for Mathematics
10. Adding Course Assets
10.1. Adding Files to a Course
10.2. Adding Course Updates and Handouts
10.3. Managing the Pages in Your Course
10.4. Textbooks
10.5. Using the Course Wiki
11. Choosing Enhanced Capabilities For Your Course
11.1. Including Learner Cohorts
11.2. Including Teams
11.3. Creating Content Experiments
11.4. Offering Academic Course Credit
11.5. Timed Exams
11.6. Using edX as an LTI Tool Provider
12. Establishing a Grading Policy For Your Course
12.1. Set the Grade Range
12.2. Set the Grace Period
12.3. Configure the Assignment Types
12.4. Graded Subsections
12.5. The Learner View of Grades
13. Releasing Your Course
13.1. Beta Testing a Course
13.2. Course Launching Activities
13.3. Exporting and Importing a Course
14. Managing a Running Course
14.1. Course Data
14.2. Bulk Email
14.3. Enrollment
14.4. Managing Course Discussions
14.5. Guidance for Discussion Moderators
14.6. Staff Debug Info
15. Managing Learner Progress and Grades
15.1. Learner Data
15.2. Answer Data
15.3. Learner Grades and Grading
15.4. Obtaining Certificate Data
15.5. Ending a Course
16. Re-running Your Course
16.1. Re-running a Course
17. Information for Your Students
17.1. Math Response Formatting for Students
17.2. Open Response Assessments for Students
18. Glossary
18.1. A
18.2. C
18.3. D
18.4. E
18.5. F
18.6. G
18.7. H
18.8. I
18.9. K
18.10. L
18.11. M
18.12. N
18.13. O
18.14. P
18.15. Q
18.16. R
18.17. S
18.18. T
18.19. U
18.20. V
18.21. W
18.22. XYZ
Building and Running an edX Course
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11.1. Including Learner Cohorts
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11.1. Including Learner Cohorts
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11.1.1. Using Cohorts in Your Courses
11.1.1.1. Overview
11.1.1.2. Options for Assigning Learners to Cohorts
11.1.2. Enabling and Configuring the Cohorts Feature
11.1.2.1. Overview
11.1.2.2. Implementing an Automated Assignment Strategy
11.1.2.3. Implementing a Manual Assignment Strategy
11.1.2.4. Enabling Cohorts in your Course
11.1.2.5. Adding Cohorts
11.1.2.6. Assign Learners to Cohorts Manually
11.1.2.7. Assign Learners to Cohorts by Uploading a .csv File
11.1.2.8. Altering Cohort Configuration in a Running Course
11.1.2.9. Change Student Cohort Assignments
11.1.2.10. Rename a Cohort
11.1.2.11. Changing the Assignment Method of a Cohort
11.1.2.12. Disable Cohorts in Your Course
11.1.3. Creating Cohort-Specific Course Content
11.1.3.1. Overview
11.1.3.2. Example: Cohort-Specific Course Content
11.1.3.3. Content Groups
11.1.3.4. Create Content Groups
11.1.3.5. View Usage of a Content Group
11.1.3.6. Delete Content Groups
11.1.3.7. Specify Components as Visible Only to Particular Content Groups
11.1.3.8. Associate Cohorts with Content Groups
11.1.3.9. Preview Cohort-Specific Course Content
11.1.4. Setting up Discussions in Courses with Cohorts
11.1.4.1. Overview
11.1.4.2. Course-Wide Discussion Topics and Cohorts
11.1.4.3. Specify Whether Course-Wide Discussion Topics are Divided by Cohort
11.1.4.4. Content-Specific Discussion Topics and Cohorts
11.1.4.5. Specify that All Content-Specific Discussion Topics are Cohorted
11.1.4.6. Specify that Some Content-Specific Discussion Topics are Divided by Cohort
11.1.5. Managing Discussions in Courses with Learner Cohorts
11.1.5.1. Overview
11.1.5.2. Identifying Who Can Read a Post
11.1.5.3. Choosing the Visibility of a Post
11.1.5.4. Viewing the Posts of a Cohort