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August 28, 2014
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The following information reflects what is new in the edX Platform as of August
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28, 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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edX Studio
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* This release further expands the recently redesigned Studio publishing
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process. These features are available on the **Course Outline** page.
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* You can now publish all unpublished content in an entire section or
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subsection in a single step: on the **Course Outline** page, click the
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"Publish" icon.
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.. image:: images/outline-publish-icons.png
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:alt: The Course Outline page showing an expanded section and subsection
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with a unit that contains unpublished content.
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The "Publish" icon is also available for individual units on the **Course
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Outline** page.
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* You can now hide all of the content in an entire section or subsection on
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the **Course Outline** page. To ensure that students cannot see a part of
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the course, select the "Settings" icon and in the dialog that opens select
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**Hide from students**. The same feature is available for individual units.
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For more details, see our most recent `edX Product and Engineering
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Newsletter`_.
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* You can now build content experiments (also known as A/B tests or split
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tests) entirely within edX Studio. With a content experiment, you show
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different course content to different groups of students. Research teams can
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compare the performance of students in different groups to gain insights into
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the relative effectiveness of course content.
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* A defect in the drag and drop feature for course content on the **Course
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Outline** page has been fixed. Dropping a unit into a collapsed subsection
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now adds the unit without changing any existing content in that subsection.
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(TNL-56)
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edX Learning Management System
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* When you click **Sent Email History** on the Instructor Dashboard **Email**
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page, a new **Sent By** column in the list of messages identifies the sender
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of each message.
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* The Instructor Dashboard no longer displays instructions for accessing the
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older version of the dashboard. However, users can still select **Revert to
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Legacy Dashboard** to access the older version.
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* The computations for demographic distributions that are reported on the
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**Analytics** page of the Instructor Dashboard have been updated. The level
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of education and gender distributions are now computed for currently enrolled
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students only. Previously, these distributions were computed for all students
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who were ever enrolled in the course. (LMS-11228)
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.. * Bulk email now available for all courses? Instructor Dashboard, Email page
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.. edX Data & Analytics
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Coming Soon
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We're pleased to announce these changes, which will be released in the next few
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weeks:
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* In addition to the existing Discussion post type, course discussions will
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soon include a new Question post type. Students and course teams will also be
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able to filter posts to find unanswered questions easily.
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* A new design for course discussions is coming! New controls will provide
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consistent ways to take action on posts. Additionally, a set of colorful
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badges will make identifying posts easier.
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* To make the process of registering faster and easier, students will soon be
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able to both register and log in to the edX.org and edX Edge web sites with
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their existing Google or Facebook accounts.
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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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Update your bookmarks and links! To prepare for some upcoming additions to
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the edX documentation set, we recently changed the location of this guide
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and its URL changed as a result. You can always find `Building and Running an
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edX Course`_ and the rest of our documentation set at `docs.edx.org`_.
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You can also click **Help** in the upper-right corner of any page in the edX
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Studio user interface to access relevant sections in this guide, and download
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the entire guide as a PDF as needed.
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Recent changes include:
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* The `Developing Your Course`_ chapter has been updated to include the new
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capabilities for publishing and hiding multiple units on the **Course
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Outline** page.
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* A new `Add Content Experiments to Your Course`_ chapter is now available.
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* An additional sample email message for students, announcing a new run of a
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course, is now available. See `New Course Run Announcement`_.
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* Messages about the effect of changes to the grading policy, graded
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subsections, or graded components in a live course are now included in
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relevant sections throughout the guide.
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* `Creating Peer Assessments`_
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* `edX Research Guide`_
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Recent changes include:
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* The `Tracking Logs`_ chapter now includes a section that describes open
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response assessment events.
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* The "Course Grading" and "XML format of drag and drop input" chapters were
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removed. These topics are covered in the `Building and Running an edX
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Course`_ 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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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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