1.6. Change Log for 2013 through 2014
This section lists changes in this document from 2013 and 2014.
For changes in 2015, see Change Log for 2015.
Note
Because of later changes in this document that made old links
obsolete, links have been removed from this table. Use the table of contents,
the Building and Running an edX Course index page, or search to find the information you
need.
Date |
Change |
12/31/14 |
Added the Google Calendar Tool and Google Drive Files
Tool chapters. |
12/19/14 |
Updated Adding Course Updates and Handouts and The Visual
Editor to clarify that the visual editor is not supported for course
handouts. |
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Added the Assign Students to Cohort Groups by uploading CSV
section. |
12/17/14 |
Updated Custom JavaScript and Multiple Problems in One
Component to indicate that you cannot use a custom JavaScript problem
in a component with multiple problems. |
12/02/14 |
Added an email template for a <weekly highlights<Weekly
Highlights> message to students. |
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The Bulk Email topic is now in the Running Your Course
Index section. |
Date |
Change |
11/20/14 |
Updated the compression specifications<Compression
Specifications> for video files. |
11/17/14 |
Updated Working with Video Components to indicate that video
transcripts are required. |
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Replaced information about accessing student demographic data in the
Student Data chapter with a cross-reference to edX Insights. |
11/14/14 |
Added documentation for using the course wiki<Course_Wiki>
in the Running Your Course Index chapter. |
11/13/14 |
Added additional information in the Drag and Drop chapter. |
11/12/14 |
Corrected the description of the Show Answer setting for
problems. |
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Added note that students can see the Course Info page and
course-wide discussion topics as soon as they enroll in a course to
the Set Start and End Dates topic. |
11/07/14 |
Added a caution that content experiments are only supported within
verticals, in Add a Content Experiment in OLX. |
Date |
Change |
10/31/14 |
Added warning in Export a Course about sensitive or
license-specific information that is included when you export a course. |
10/30/14 |
Added an email template<Verified Registration Reminder> for
reminding students of the last day to register for verified
certificates. |
10/29/14 |
Added information about course start time visibility to Set Start
and End Dates. |
10/28/14 |
Added section for Show Reset Button in Problem Settings
and clarified Reset button behavior in Problem Student View. |
10/27/14 |
Fixed the code sample in Script Tag Format in the Write
Your Own Grader chapter. |
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Fixed a bug in Text Input Problem XML. |
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Added Create a Randomized Custom Python-Evaluated Input Problem. |
10/23/14 |
Added a note about limited support of the annotation problem type to
Annotation. |
10/16/14 |
Updated Scheduling Your Course to reflect
that course dates now use UTC. |
10/14/14 |
Added the Rerun a Course chapter. |
10/7/14 |
Added the Including Student Cohorts chapter. |
Date |
Change |
09/30/14 |
Added information about accessing edX Insights to the Course Data
and Enrollment chapters. |
09/04/14 |
Updated the Discussions and Discussions for Students and
Staff chapters to include information about choosing the type of post
and to reflect changes in the user interface. |
09/11/14 |
Added info about possible problem types to Problem with Adaptive
Hint. |
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Removed “These problems only allow integers and a few select constants”
from the table of problem types in Create Exercises. |
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Added a note about angle bracket characters to the Dropdown
topic. |
09/26/14 |
Added Molecule Viewer to Create Exercises. |
Date |
Change |
08/28/14 |
Updated Developing Your Course Index
with new capabilities to publish or hide multiple units
from the outline. |
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Added Creating Content Experiments. |
08/22/14 |
Added warnings about the effects of changing the course grading policy,
graded subsections, or graded components after the course begins. |
08/20/14 |
Added Browsers to the Getting Started Index section. |
08/18/14 |
Expanded the example messages<Example Messages to Students> in
the Launch chapter. |
08/12/14 |
Updated documentation to address the new publishing workflow and user
interface.
Created a new section, Developing Your Course Index,
which contains the following topics.
- Getting Started with Course Content Development
- Developing Your Course Outline
- Developing Course Sections
- Developing Course Subsections
- Developing Course Units
- Developing Course Components
- Controlling Content Visibility
- Testing Your Course Content
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08/07/14 |
Added information about reviewing and duplicating the contents of
previously-sent messages to the Bulk Email section. |
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Updated the view_enrollment_count section to include the
breakdown by certification track in the enrollment section. |
Note
In several cases, older links to changed topics were made obsolete by
subsequent changes.
Date |
Change |
07/30/14 |
Expanded the Discussions for Students and Staff chapter to
include information about adding posts, responses, and comments. |
07/23/14 |
Added Grade Ranges and Certificates to the
Establish a Grading Policy chapter. |
07/22/14 |
Added Example Messages to Students to the Launch chapter. |
07/15/14 |
Added the Discussions for Students and Staff chapter. |
07/11/14 |
Added Track Student Activity to the Student Data
chapter. |
07/10/14 |
Updated the Discussions chapter to add an
Overview_discussions section and to reflect changes to the
Discussion list and to the Advanced Settings page in Studio. |
07/01/14 |
Updated Scheduling Your Course to specify when students can earn
and access certificates. |
Date |
Change |
06/20/14 |
Added a Preface with resources for course teams, developers,
researchers, and students. |
06/18/14 |
In the View and download student data section, updated the
example report to include the new User ID column. |
06/17/14 |
Added Video TOC section to Working with Video Components. |
06/06/14 |
Added a description of email task workflow states to the Launch
section. |
06/03/14 |
Added gradebook to the Grades section. |
Date |
Change |
05/30/14 |
Updated Working with Video Components to include recommendations
to use .mp4 and .webm video formats for browser compatibility. |
05/27/14 |
Based on the new requirement to specify the complete location identifier
of a problem to adjust student grades, revised the Grades
section. |
05/22/14 |
Reorganized, updated, and streamlined the following sections in the
Running Your Course Index section.
- Divided Grade and Answer Data into separate sections for
Grades and Review_Answers.
- Moved information about the student Progress page from the
Checking Student Progress and Issuing Certificates section to
Grades.
- Renamed the Checking Student Progress and Issuing Certificates
section to Checking Student Progress and Issuing Certificates.
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Updated Problem with Adaptive Hint to reflect formatting
requirements for the Python script and the correct_answer attribute. |
05/21/14 |
Added warning that version 1 of the Open Response Assessments suite has
been deprecated and added a link to the new ORA information. |
05/16/14 |
Updated Working with Video Components to reflect UI changes. |
05/14/14 |
Updated the Running Your Course Index chapter to remove
references to the “new beta” Instructor Dashboard. |
05/13/14 |
Updated the Enrollment section to reflect that usernames or email
addresses can be used to batch enroll students. |
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Updated the Grades section to reflect new features on the problem
Staff Debug viewer for rescoring, resetting attempts, and deleting
student state. |
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Updated the Course_Staffing section to state the labeling
differences between Studio and the LMS with respect to course team roles. |
05/09/14 |
Updated Assigning_discussion_roles with a note about course staff
requiring explicit granting of discussion administration roles. |
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Added VitalSource topic. |
05/08/14 |
Added warnings to Upload a File about file size. |
05/07/14 |
Updated the Discussions chapter to include a topic on closing
discussions. |
05/06/14 |
Expanded the Grades chapter to include a topic on interpreting
the score histograms for problems. |
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Updated LTI Component to reflect changes to the Studio UI. |
05/02/14 |
Updated Drag and Drop information. |
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Updated IFrame documentation. |
Date |
Change |
04/28/14 |
Updated Show or Hide the Course Wiki Page to include note about
Wiki content being available after you hide the Wiki page. |
04/26/14 |
Updated label information; added XML information to Problem with
Adaptive Hint. |
04/24/14 |
Expanded the Grades chapter to include topics on interpreting the
grade reports and student progress page. |
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Updated the Beta_Testing section to reflect feature changes. |
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Updated the Working with HTML Components chapter to reflect
changes to the HTML component editor. |
04/23/14 |
Reorganized information about problems into Exercises and Tools
Index section. |
04/23/14 |
Added more information about collecting language and location data from
students to Student Data. |
04/22/14 |
Updated the Bulk Email section with information about the
dashboard option to opt out of course email. |
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In Discussions, corrected the steps to create discussion
categories. |
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Updated the Enrollment section to reflect feature changes. |
04/16/14 |
Updated the Transcripts in Additional Languages topic in Working
with Video Components. |
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In support of new features, added the following sections to
Multiple Choice problems.
- Shuffle Answers in a Multiple Choice Problem
- Targeted Feedback in a Multiple Choice Problem
- Answer Pools in a Multiple Choice Problem
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04/15/14 |
Updated Testing Your Course to include a section on how to View Your
Live Course. |
04/11/14 |
Expanded the Grades section to include a topic on interpreting
the Student Answer Distribution report. |
04/08/14 |
Updated the chapter Working with HTML Components to reflect the
new HTML editor. |
04/07/14 |
Expanded the Course Data, Enrollment, and |
04/03/14 |
Updated the Adding Pages to a Course section with the
Show or Hide the Course Wiki Page topic. |
04/02/14 |
Reorganized sections to better reflect the workflow of building a new
course. |
04/01/14 |
Update the Establish a Grading Policy chapter to emphasize that
grading is applied to subsections only. |
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Updated the Releasing Your Course Index section to include
Launch. |
Date |
Change |
03/31/14 |
Expanded the Grades chapter to include the new
Review_Answers section. |
03/27/14 |
Updated the Adding Pages to a Course section to reflect feature
changes. |
03/27/14 |
Updated the section on Beta_Testing to include the new batch
add feature. |
03/19/14 |
Updated the sections on Beta_Testing, Discussions,
Grades, and Student Data with changes to the new
Instructor Dashboard. |
03/17/14 |
Reorganized this document into the following major sections.
- Getting Started Index
- Building a Course Index
- Creating Course Content Index
- Exercises and Tools Index
- Releasing Your Course Index
- Running Your Course Index
- Information for Your Students Index
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03/10/14 |
Added information about setting up your course summary page to these
sections.
- Set Start and End Dates
- Add a Course Image
- Add a Course Video
- Describe Your Course
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Date |
Change |
02/25/14 |
Updated the Add Files to a Course section to include the new
External URL feature. |
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Updated Add a Link to a File and Add an Image to an HTML
Component to specify you must use the file’s Embed URL. |
02/24/14 |
Added Getting Started with edX. |
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Updated the Add a Course Video section. |
02/21/14 |
Added the Beta_Testing chapter. |
02/19/14 |
Updated Import LaTeX Code to reflect the new workflow and a UI
change for creating LaTeX HTML components. |
02/18/14 |
Included several enhancements in the Establish a Grading Policy
section. |
02/14/14 |
Added Additional Transcripts section to Working with Video
Components; updated Video Advanced Options. |
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Added the Course Data, Course_Staffing, and
Enrollment chapters. |
02/11/14 |
Added Gene Explorer and updated Periodic Table
and Molecule Editor. |
02/07/14 |
Added section on Full Screen Image. |
02/06/14 |
Added Periodic Table and Molecule Editor. |
02/05/14 |
Added the Advertise a Different Start Date section. |
02/04/14 |
Added the Student Data and Grades sections. |
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Added the Multiple Choice and Numerical Input and Protein
Builder sections. |
Date |
Change |
01/29/2014 |
Added the chapter Google Instant Hangout. |
01/24/2014 |
Added the Discussions and Guidance for Discussion
Moderators chapters. |
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Added more detailed instructions to Zooming image |
01/21/2014 |
Added information about accessibility in the topic Adding
Textbooks. |
01/14/2014 |
Added info about scoring and due dates to original Open Response
Assessments section. |
01/13/2014 |
Extensive updates to Organizing Your Course Content and
Working with HTML Components. |
01/08/2014 |
Updated Add Files to a Course to reflect addition of sorting to
the Files & Uploads page. |
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Updated Scheduling Your Course to reflect change to
default course start date to 2029. |
01/07/2014 |
Updated Text Input with info about multiple strings. |
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Added info about template to Checkbox. |
01/06/2014 |
Created Custom JavaScript. |
01/06/2014 |
Created Zooming image. |
01/01/2014 |
Updated the chapters on organizing your course content and
testing your course to reflect changes in the course outline
design. |
Date |
Change |
12/20/2013 |
Made ORA for Students into a template that instructors can
customize. |
12/19/2013 |
Created “Tools” topic. (Note 4/10/14: Topic merged into Create
Exercises.) |
12/18/2013 |
Updated documentation about video player options in Working with
Video Components. |
12/13/2013 |
Created LTI Component. |
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Created ORA for Students. |
12/12/2013 |
Added the edX Glossary. |
12/11/2013 |
Added the chapter Guidelines for Creating Accessible Content. |
12/10/2013 |
Added note about number of responses in “Available to Grade” column in
Open Response Assessments section. |
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Added MathJax in Studio. |
12/09/2013 |
Created MathJax in Studio. |
12/05/2013 |
Complete revision of edX Studio documentation and integration of edX101
content. |