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Creating a Course

  • Create a New Online Course
  • Set Course Schedule & Details
  • Add Sections, Subsections & Units
  • Managing Unit and Component
  • Adding Videos
  • Adding HTML
  • Adding Discussions
  • Adding Problems

    • Adding Problems
    • Problem Types
    • Drag and Drop
    • Pointing on a picture
  • Adding Images and Figures
  • Uploading Static Content
  • Course Visibility
  • Creating pages
  • Grading
  • Commonly Used Advanced Settings

Running a Course

  • Managing Certificates
  • Common Instructor Dashboard Tasks
  • Managing Course Discussions

Advanced Management

  • Importing / Exporting Courses
  • Change a user’s password
  • Inactivate / Activate a User
  • Understanding User Roles
  • Set a user to staff or superuser
  • Server Tasks

    • SSH into Server
    • Set or Change a Password

Migration

  • Migrate EdX (Single-Server)
  • Migrate the Theme

Migrate MySQL

  • Migrating MySQL Database off of Single-Server

Migrate Mongo

  • Migrating Mongo Database off of Single-Server

Configuration

  • Enable and Update Additional Languages
  • Enable Downloads from Instructor tab in LMS
  • Configure and Enable Certificate
  • Configure Open Response Assessment

Configure Ecommerce

  • Basic Ecommerce Setup
  • Setup JWT Keys
  • Getting Course Details on Checkout Page
  • Troubleshoot Ecommerce

Discovery Setup

  • Configure Discovery

Comprehensive theming

  • Setup Comprehensive Theming

Microsites

  • Setup Microsites
  • Common Microsite Configurations

API

  • Setup API
  • Common APIs Demonstration
  • Customizing an API
  • DCAS API Handoff for LMS

Xblock

  • Xblock introduction
  • Xblock installation and uninstallation
  • Xblock Development

Scaling the architecture

  • Scaling Mongo
  • Scaling MySQL
  • Dedicated Storage Configuration Outline
  • Azure Storage Configuration

    • Azure Storage Configuration
    • Basic Configuration
    • Private Blob Configuration

SCORM

  • SCORM Azure Storage

Trouble-Shooting

  • Forgot admin username or password
  • Server error
  • Can't reach your site
  • Problems with RabbitMQ
  • Can't login to LMS or CMS
  • Locate the error
  • Jobs are stucking
  • Mongodb not working
  • Forums Breaking Issue
  • Check open edx services status
  • Problem with mysql
  • Can't receive email
  • CSRF token error

Course Visibility

A hierarchy of settings control visibility of course content.

Course Release Date

  1. Set via Studio > Settings > Schedule & Details
  2. Note than when you set the course release date, sections and subsections are automatically dated to match

Section Release Date

  1. Set via Studio > Content > Outline at the top of each section Course Release Date

  2. Note that when you set the section release date, sub-sections are automatically dated to match

Subsection Release Date

  1. Set via Studio > Content > Outline>Selected Section. You must drill into a sub-section from the outline to reach the sub-section detail page.

    Course subsection settings

Unit-Level Visibility

  1. Set via Studio > Content > Outline > Selected Unit. You must drill into a unit from the outline to reach the unit detail page.

  2. Within a Unit, Visibility must be set to public for a user to see the content.

    Unit Visibility deprecated Image needs to be updated

Controlling Visibility of Pages

Some pages (i.e. Wiki) can be hidden from view

  1. In Studio, navigate to Content > Pages.

  2. An eye icon appears on certain pages. Hide page visibility

  3. Click the icon to hide that page from student view. Unhide page visibility

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