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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

Managing Unit and Component

Editing Unit

Course creators can do several things in the Unit view of Studio (these are outline in blue below): Editing Unit

  1. Edit the name or title of a Unit by clicking on the pencil icon.
  2. View Live Version or see how the Unit looks to a student outside of Studio.
  3. Publish or make Unit available to students for viewing.
  4. Discard Changes or “Undo” any unwanted modifications to the Unit since last Publish.

Adding and Editing Components

  1. Add a new Component by clicking on the any of the Green squares. The four Component categories are Discussion, HTML, Problem, or Video. Add New Components

  2. To Edit a Component, click the “EDIT” button with the pencil to the right of the Component name. It will take you to a screen to Edit the content or change the Settings for the Component. Once in the Editor, click the “SETTINGS” tab to change the name of the Component Edit Text Component

Organizing Components

Just like Sections, Subsections, and Units, Components can be organized by dragging and dropping. Click the button in the red box and hold until a blue line appears in the desired location. Organizing Components

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