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EdX E-Learning Course Development

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EdX E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
edX E-Learning Course Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Course discussions


Course discussions encourage interaction among students and the course staff. You can set up different topics to encourage engagement and create a community. Discussions are also good sources of feedback. A discussion offers three hierarchical levels of interaction:

  • Post: This opens a new subject. It is often posed as questions, either to start a conversation or to bring up an issue that requires action. When you add a post, you categorize it as a question or a discussion.

  • Response: This is a reply made directly to a post to offer an insight or a solution in a way that continues the conversation.

  • Comment: This is often a clarification made to a specific response rather than to the post as a whole.

When you create a course, a discussion topic named "General" is available by default; you can add more course-wide discussions. In courses with cohorts enabled, all course-wide discussion topics you add are unified. All the posts can be read and responded to by every student,...