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OLX Course Building Blocks
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Before you begin building OLX, you should understand the
building blocks of an edX course. See:
* `Courseware`_
* `Supplemental Course Content`_
* `Course Policies`_
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Courseware
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Courseware is the main content of your course and consists mainly of lessons
and assessments. The following list describes how courseware is organized in
OLX:
* Course chapters are at the top level of your course and typically
represent a time period. In Studio, chapters are called *sections*.
* A section contains one or more children which correspond to
top-level pages in the course. In Studio, these are called 'subsections' and
are currently restricted to ``sequential`` elements at this
level. OLX supports any XBlock at this level.
* Courses are composed of structural elements, such as ``sequential``
and ``vertical``, and leaf-nodes or content elements, such as
``html`` or ``problem``. Studio has a fixed hierarchy where children
of ``sequential`` elements are ``vertical`` elements (called units),
and children of ``vertical`` elements are leaf elements (called modules).
* :ref:`Course Components`
* :ref:`Problems and Tools`
* :ref:`Advanced Components`
For more information, see :ref:`The Courseware Structure`.
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Supplemental Course Content
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In addition to the courseware described above, you course can contain
supplemental content, such as textbooks, custom pages, and files. The
following list describes the types of supported content:
* Course about pages appear in the course list for prospective students and are
used to market your course. For more information, see :ref:`The Course About
Pages`.
* Course assets are any supplemental files you use in your course, such as a
syllabus as a PDF file or an image that appears in an HTML component. For
more information, see :ref:`Course Assets`.
* Course pages are custom pages that you can have appear in the top navigation
menu of your course. For more information, see :ref:`Course Pages`.
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Course Policies
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Course policies determine how your course functions. For example, policies
control grading and content experiments. For more information, see
:ref:`Policies`.