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.. _Testing Your Course:
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Testing Your Course
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The way your course looks in Studio is not the way students see and experience your course.
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Therefore, as and after you develop course content, you must view and test your course from a students' point of view.
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From within Studio, you can test your course in two ways:
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* :ref:`Preview Your Course`
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* :ref:`View Your Live Course`
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.. _Preview Your Course:
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Preview Your Course
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When you view your course through Preview mode, you see all the
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units of your course, regardless of whether they are set to Public or
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Private and regardless of whether the release dates have passed.
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Using Preview mode is the only way to see content that is set to Private
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**as a student would see it.**
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You can enter Preview mode in two ways.
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* On any subsection page, click **Preview Drafts**.
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.. image:: Images/preview_draft.png
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:width: 800
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:alt: Image of a subsection with the Preview Drafts button circled
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* On any Unit page, click **Preview**.
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The following example shows the **Preview** button for a unit that
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is set to Public.
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.. image:: Images/preview_public.png
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:width: 800
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:alt: Image of a public unit with the Preview button circled
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The following example shows the **Preview** button for a unit that
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is set to Private.
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.. image:: Images/preview_private.png
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:width: 800
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:alt: Image of a private unit with the Preview button circled
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.. _View Your Live Course:
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View Your Live Course
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When you view your course as an staff member (that is, using the same account you use to build the course in Studio),
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you see all the units of your course that are set to **Public**, regardless of the release dates of the containing section or subsection.
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You do not see units that are set to **Private**. To see Private units, you must use Preview mode as described above.
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You can view the live course from three different places in Studio:
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* The **Course Outline** page.
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.. image:: Images/course_outline_view_live.png
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:width: 800
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:alt: Image of the course outline with the View Live button circled
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* Any Subsection page.
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.. image:: Images/subsection_view_live.png
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:width: 800
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:alt: Image of a subsection with the View Live button circled
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* The Unit page, if the Unit is Public.
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.. image:: Images/unit_view_live.png
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:width: 800
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:alt: Image of a unit with the View Live button circled
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