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  • Building and Running an MITx Online Course
  • 1. Release Notes
    • 1.1. Releasey Notes Here
  • 2. Exploring Your Dashboard and Profile
  • 3. Accessibility Best Practices Guidance for Content Providers
    • 3.1. What Is The edX Accessibility Best Practices Guidance Based On?
    • 3.2. Supporting Learners with Diverse Needs
    • 3.3. Accessibility Best Practices for Developing Course Content
  • 4. Setting Up a Course
    • 4.1. Planning Course Information (edx.org and Edge Courses)
      • 4.1.1. Course Title, Number, and Enrollment Track
      • 4.1.2. Images and Videos for a Course or Program
      • 4.1.3. Course Description
      • 4.1.4. Additional Course Information
    • 4.2. Planning Course Run Information (edx.org and Edge Courses)
      • 4.2.1. Planning Course Staff
      • 4.2.2. Scheduling a Course Run
      • 4.2.3. Additional Course Run Information
    • 4.3. Creating and Announcing a Course Using Publisher (edx.org Courses)
      • 4.3.1. Introduction to Publisher
      • 4.3.2. Creating a Course in Publisher
        • 4.3.2.1. The Publisher Course Creation Process
        • 4.3.2.2. Create a Course in Publisher
        • 4.3.2.3. Find a Course in Publisher
        • 4.3.2.4. Edit a Course in Publisher
        • 4.3.2.5. Send a Course to edX Marketing for Review
        • 4.3.2.6. Review Changes and Finalize the Course
        • 4.3.2.7. Add a Comment to a Course in Publisher
        • 4.3.2.8. Check the Status of a Course in Publisher
      • 4.3.3. Creating a Course Run in Publisher
        • 4.3.3.1. The Publisher Course Run Creation Process
        • 4.3.3.2. Create a Course Run
        • 4.3.3.3. Access a Course Run in Studio
        • 4.3.3.4. Edit a Course Run
        • 4.3.3.5. Add Course Run Staff
        • 4.3.3.6. Send a Course Run to the edX PC for Review
        • 4.3.3.7. Add a Comment to the Course Run
        • 4.3.3.8. Finalize a Course Run
      • 4.3.4. Publishing an About Page
      • 4.3.5. Add a Course or Program About Video
      • 4.3.6. Change a Course Run After the About Page Is Published
      • 4.3.7. Change Publisher Settings
    • 4.4. Add Course and Course Run Information in Studio (Edge Courses)
      • 4.4.1. Creating a New Course in Studio
      • 4.4.2. Set the Course Run Schedule and Pacing in Studio
      • 4.4.3. Add a Course Image in Studio
      • 4.4.4. Adding Course Team Members in Studio
      • 4.4.5. Setting Up Certificates in Studio
      • 4.4.6. Creating a Course About Page in Studio
  • 5. Developing Your Course
    • 5.1. Getting Started with Course Content Development
    • 5.2. Developing Your Course Outline
    • 5.3. Developing Course Sections
    • 5.4. Developing Course Subsections
    • 5.5. Developing Course Units
    • 5.6. Developing Course Components
    • 5.7. Controlling Content Visibility and Access
    • 5.8. Course Licensing
    • 5.9. Testing Your Course Content
    • 5.10. Sharing Course Content on Social Media Platforms
  • 6. Adding Course Components
    • 6.1. Working with Text Components
    • 6.2. Working with Video Components
    • 6.3. Working with Discussion Components
    • 6.4. Working with Problem Components
    • 6.5. Working with Content Libraries
  • 7. Creating and Adding Video Content
    • 7.1. Video Process Overview
    • 7.2. Preparing a Video
      • 7.2.1. Set Up a Hosting Service
      • 7.2.2. Create a Video
      • 7.2.3. Obtain a Video Transcript
    • 7.3. Uploading a Video
    • 7.4. Adding a Video to a Course
    • 7.5. Specifying Additional Video Options
    • 7.6. Specifying Transcript Options
    • 7.7. Adding a Pre-Roll Video to Your edX Course
    • 7.8. Troubleshooting Video Problems
  • 8. Adding Exercises and Tools
    • 8.1. Problems, Exercises, and Tools
    • 8.2. Enabling Additional Exercises and Tools
    • 8.3. Annotation Problem
    • 8.4. Calculator Tool
    • 8.5. Chemical Equation Problem
    • 8.6. Circuit Schematic Builder Problem
    • 8.7. Conditional Module
    • 8.8. Completion Tool
    • 8.9. Custom JavaScript Display and Grading Problem
    • 8.10. Drag and Drop Problem
    • 8.11. Drag and Drop Problem (Deprecated)
    • 8.12. Dropdown Problem
    • 8.13. External Grader
    • 8.14. Full Screen Image Tool
    • 8.15. Gene Explorer Tool
    • 8.16. Google Calendar Tool
    • 8.17. Google Drive Files Tool
    • 8.18. Iframe Tool
    • 8.19. Image Mapped Input Problem
    • 8.20. LTI Component
    • 8.21. Math Expression Input Problems
    • 8.22. MathJax for Mathematics
    • 8.23. Multi-select Problem
    • 8.24. Notes Tool
    • 8.25. Numerical Input Problem
    • 8.26. Open Response Assessments
      • 8.26.1. Introduction to Open Response Assessments
      • 8.26.2. Create an Open Response Assessment Assignment
      • 8.26.3. Managing Open Response Assessment Assignments
      • 8.26.4. Staff Grading for Open Response Assignments
      • 8.26.5. Accessing Metrics for ORA Assignments
    • 8.27. Oppia Exploration Tool
    • 8.28. Peer Instruction Tool
    • 8.29. Periodic Table Tool
    • 8.30. Poll Tool
    • 8.31. Poll Tool for OLX
    • 8.32. Problem with Adaptive Hint
    • 8.33. Problem Written in LaTeX
    • 8.34. Protex Protein Builder Tool
    • 8.35. Qualtrics Survey Tool
    • 8.36. Randomized Content Blocks
    • 8.37. Recommender Tool
    • 8.38. SCORM
    • 8.39. Single Select Problem
    • 8.40. Single Select and Numerical Input Problem
    • 8.41. Staff Graded Assignment
    • 8.42. Survey Tool
    • 8.43. Text Input Problem
    • 8.44. Word Cloud Tool
    • 8.45. Custom Python-evaluated Input Problem (Write-Your-Own-Grader)
    • 8.46. Zooming Image Tool
  • 9. Adding Course Assets
    • 9.1. Adding Files to a Course
    • 9.2. Adding Course Updates and Handouts
    • 9.3. Managing the Pages in Your Course
    • 9.4. Textbooks
    • 9.5. Using the Course Wiki
    • 9.6. Course Live
  • 10. Using Enhanced Capabilities In Your Course
    • 10.1. Including Learner Cohorts
      • 10.1.1. Using Cohorts in Your Courses
      • 10.1.2. Enabling and Configuring the Cohorts Feature
      • 10.1.3. Creating Cohort-Specific Course Content
      • 10.1.4. Setting up Discussions in Courses with Cohorts
    • 10.2. Offering Different Content to Different Learner Groups
    • 10.3. Creating Content Experiments
      • 10.3.1. Overview of Content Experiments
      • 10.3.2. Configure Your Course for Content Experiments
      • 10.3.3. Add Content Experiments to Your Course
      • 10.3.4. Test Content Experiments
    • 10.4. Using the Teams Application
      • 10.4.1. Using Teams in Your Courses
      • 10.4.2. The Learner’s Experience of Teams
      • 10.4.3. Managing Team Discussions
    • 10.5. Offering Academic Course Credit
      • 10.5.1. Academic Course Credit
    • 10.6. Offering Timed Exams
    • 10.7. Using edX as an LTI Tool Provider
      • 10.7.1. Reusing Course Content with LTI
      • 10.7.2. Preparing to Reuse Course Content
      • 10.7.3. Determining Content Addresses
      • 10.7.4. Grading Remote Content
      • 10.7.5. Example: edX as an LTI Provider to Canvas
      • 10.7.6. Example: edX as an LTI Provider to Blackboard
    • 10.8. Xpert Unit Summaries
      • 10.8.1. Overview of Xpert Unit Summaries
      • 10.8.2. Enabling Xpert Unit Summaries
  • 11. Proctored Exams
    • 11.1. Proctored Exam Overview
    • 11.2. Enable Proctored Exams
    • 11.3. Create a Proctored Exam with Proctortrack
    • 11.4. Viewing Proctored Session Results with Proctortrack
    • 11.5. Managing Proctored Exams
    • 11.6. Preparing Learners for Proctored Exams
  • 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 Information
    • 14.2. Automatic Email Messages from edX
    • 14.3. Bulk Email Messages from the Course Team
    • 14.4. Enrollment
    • 14.5. Staff Debug Info
  • 15. Managing Discussions
    • 15.1. Creating Course Discussions
    • 15.2. Running Course Discussions
    • 15.3. About Divided Discussion Topics
    • 15.4. Managing Divided Discussion Topics
    • 15.5. Moderating Discussions
    • 15.6. Guidance for Discussion Moderators
  • 16. Managing Notifications
    • 16.1. Accessing the Notifications Tray
  • 17. Managing Learner Progress and Grades
    • 17.1. Learner Data
    • 17.2. Answer Data
    • 17.3. Learner Grades and Grading
    • 17.4. Ending a Course
  • 18. Re-running Your Course
    • 18.1. Re-running a Course
  • 19. XML Authoring
    • 19.1. XML Authoring
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Managing Notifications

16. Managing Notifications#

Use the topics in this section to learn about managing notifications.

  • 16.1. Accessing the Notifications Tray
  • 16.2. Notification Icons, Alerts & Context
  • 16.3. Interacting with Notifications
  • 16.4. Notification Lifecycle
  • 16.5. Personalizing Your Notification Preferences
    • 16.5.1. Accessing Notification Preference Settings
    • 16.5.2. Course-Specific Preferences
    • 16.5.3. Choosing Notifications for Platform Areas
    • 16.5.4. Discussion Notifications

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