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October 7, 2014
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The following information reflects what is new in the edX Platform as of
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October 7, 2014. See previous pages in this document for a history of changes.
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edX Release Announcements Mailing List
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These edX Course Staff Release Notes are always available and are updated with
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each release of the edX Platform on `edx.org`_ and `edX Edge`_.
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You can also sign up for the `edX Release Announcements mailing list`_ to get
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an email message when we update the edX Course Staff Release Notes.
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*******************************
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edX Learning Management System
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* The private discussion cohorts feature has been released! When this optional
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feature is enabled for a course, the course team defines smaller communities
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of students within the larger, course-wide community. This feature allows
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course teams to divide students into cohort groups using either distinctive
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group characteristics or automated, random assignments. When the cohorts
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feature is enabled for a course, most discussion topics are divided so that
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students can only read and contribute to posts made by other members of the
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same cohort. However, course teams can create some open, or unified,
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discussion topics so that all students can read and contribute to that topic.
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Additionally, if the cohorts feature is enabled for the course, the CSV file
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that contains student profile data now includes a **Cohort** column.
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If you want to use the cohorts feature in your course, we strongly recommend
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that you implement the feature before your course is released. We do not
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recommend enabling cohorts in a running course.
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For more information, see `Cohorts`_.
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* In the Instructor Dashboard, downloading student profile data is now a
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background task. You can leave the **Data Download** page after you
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begin downloading students' profile information and return when the download
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is complete. Additionally, the **Download profile information as a CSV**
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button and the **List enrolled students' profile information** button have
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been moved to the **Reports** section of the **Data Download** page. (TNL-453)
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* Course discussions have several new features:
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* Students can now change the topic of a post after they post it. Discussion administrators, moderators, and community TAs can edit the topic for any post.
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* Users no longer have the option to add comments to closed threads. (TNL-150)
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* When a user selects a topic for a post, a link to the unit that contains
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that discussion topic in the body of the course now appears immediately when the
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post is created. (TNL-404)
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* Users who have the discussion admin role can now remove their
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own or other users' discussion admin status. (TNL-315)
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* For some users, a list of posts did not appear in the left sidebar when
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the user clicked **Posts I'm Following**. This bug has been fixed. (TNL-469)
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* Pinned posts now always appear at the top of the list of posts, regardless
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of the way that the posts are sorted. (TNL-90)
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* In some browsers, if a student clicked a word in a transcript to move to that
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point in the video, the video began playing from the correct point, but the
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transcript stopped following along with the video. This bug has been fixed.
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(TNL-235)
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edX Studio
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*************
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* In HTML text components, the default font now appears as an option in the
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**Font** menu. (TNL-147)
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.. image:: /images/HTMLDefaultFont.png
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:width: 300
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:alt: HTML component editor with Font menu open to show Default option
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* When a Problem component contained a custom JavaScript display and grading (JS
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Input) problem and at least one other problem, the JS Input problem was scored
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incorrectly. The additional problem in the component could be any type of
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problem. These problems are now scored correctly. (TNL-269)
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* When you exported a course, the setting for **Video Download Allowed** in a
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Video component changed from **False** to **True** in the exported course.
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This bug has been fixed. (TNL-324)
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edX Documentation
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All guides now include a section that lists browsers supported for use with the
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edX platform.
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The following documentation is available:
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* `Building and Running an edX Course`_
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Click **Help** in the upper-right corner of any page in the edX Studio
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user interface to access relevant sections in this guide. You can also
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download the entire guide as a PDF.
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Recent changes include:
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* Full documentation for the new cohorts feature is available in `Cohorts`_.
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* Documentation for a new `molecule viewer tool` has been added to `Creating
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Exercises and Tools`_.
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.. image:: /images/MoleculeViewer.png
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:width: 500
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:alt: Image of molecule viewer tool showing a ciprofloxacin molecule
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* `Using edX Insights`_
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* `EdX Guide for Students`_
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This new guide is written specifically to help students get started with edX.
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This initial release of the guide includes information about certificates,
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entering formulas into the response field for math and science problems, and
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open response assessments. We encourage course teams to share this guide with
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students and to let us know what else you'd like the guide to cover.
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* `Creating Peer Assessments`_
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* `edX Research Guide`_
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* `edX Developer's Guide`_
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* `edX XBlock Documentation`_
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* `Installing, Configuring, and Running the edX Platform`_
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* `edX Open Learning XML Guide`_
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The edX Open Learning XML (OLX) Guide is a new manual for course teams who are working with XML courses. We'll release updates to this preliminary version of the guide over the next several months. For more information, see `Open Learning XML (OLX) Format`_.
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Other edX Resources
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You can access the `edX Status`_ page to get an up-to-date status for all
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services on edx.org and edX Edge. The page also includes the Twitter feed for
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@edXstatus, which the edX Operations team uses to post updates.
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You can access the public `edX roadmap`_ for details about the currently
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planned product direction.
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