With the emphasis on facilitating your course in this chapter, the last chapter focused on edX operations. You learned about the participants and related processes in your edX course. We also reviewed messaging your students and administering their grades; along the way we detailed managing course discussions and creating your course's Wiki. The chapter also dealt with course data and the criteria for course completion certificates.

Looking ahead, it's important to remember that, although you've invested a great deal of effort into your edX course, this alone won't guarantee that students will sign up. The solution is to promote your course using traditional and nontraditional marketing tactics. Therefore, as a value-added bonus, in Chapter 8, Promoting Your Course—the final chapter in this book—we will step outside our roles as educators and explore methods to market our edX course and personally brand ourselves. Covering traditional marketing tools, edX's marketing options, social...