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  • How long do I have to finish? When does the course end?
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  • When will this course be offered again?
  • How can I prepare before my course begins? Is there suggested reading material?
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  • Where can I find my course?
  • Are there prerequisites for my course?
  • Can you help me choose a course?
  • What languages are edX courses taught in?
  • What is self-paced or instructor-paced? Which is my course?
  • How do self-paced courses work?
  • How do I enroll in a course?
  • How do I unenroll from a course?
  • A course I am interested in has already started. Can I still enroll?
  • How do I choose a course session?
  • What happens if I need to stop taking a course?
  • Can I re-take a course?
  • How can I find or meet other learners?
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  • Can I take more than one course at a time?
  • Why is enrollment listed as “Not Currently Available” for a course? Can I still get access?

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  • What are the differences between audit (free) and verified (paid) courses?
  • Why can’t I access the assignments and exams?
  • What is the verified track? What does verified mean?
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  • How can I get access after a course expires?
  • Does upgrading to the verified track extend my access to the course?
  • How long can I access a course in the audit track before it expires?
  • Can I view my course offline?

Accessing Course Content

  • How do I start my course?
  • How do I get help with assignments, grading, or course content?
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  • How many assignments are in a course? Are there exams?
  • Return to where you were working in a course
  • Where are the course handouts?
  • Can I download my course or textbook?
  • Can I bookmark a place in a course?
  • Sharing your course on social media
  • Can I view my course offline?
  • Watching videos on the edX video player
  • Do edX course videos have transcripts or captions?

Checking Your Course Progress

  • How can my course be marked as completed?
  • How do I know if I passed?
  • View your grade details
  • Why doesn’t the green progress checkmark appear?
  • How much work will I have to do to pass my course?
  • Why are the averages on my progress page low?

Completing Assignments

  • Why does this assignment I completed show as Due?
  • Why doesn’t the Submit button work?
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  • Entering math expressions in assignments or the calculator
  • Completing mathematical problems using screen readers
  • Using numbers in math expressions
  • Using functions in math expressions
  • Using constants in math expressions
  • Scientific notation and metric affixes

Completing Essay Assignments

  • What’s an open response assessment (ORA)?
  • When will I get my grade?
  • Why can’t I submit my peer reviews?
  • Why can’t I upload a file to my open response assessment?
  • Steps in an Open Response Assessment (ORA) assignment
  • Submit your response
  • Assess peer responses
  • Assess your own response
  • View your submitted response
  • How are open response assessments graded?
  • Learn to assess responses
  • Providing feedback on peer assessments you received
  • View your staff grade
  • How are peer assessment scores calculated?
  • What if I have a question about course grading?

Participating in Course Discussions

  • How do course discussions work?
  • How to join course discussions
  • How do I add a post in the discussion forum?
  • Adding responses or comments in a discussion
  • Editing or deleting posts, responses, or comments
  • How do I follow discussion forum posts?
  • Searching, sorting, and filtering discussions
  • How can I find my own discussion posts?
  • How do I vote on discussion posts?
  • Entering math expressions in course discussions
  • Answering questions in discussion posts
  • Flagging inappropriate discussion posts

Taking Notes in an edX Course

  • Adding notes in your course
  • Editing or deleting a note
  • Viewing, searching for, and hiding your notes

Taking Timed and Proctored Exams

  • Guide: Get Ready for a Proctored Exam
  • How do I take a timed exam?
  • How do proctored exams work?

Using the Course Wiki

  • About course wikis
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Using the edX Mobile App

  • What if I’m experiencing a problem in the mobile app?
  • Finding and enrolling in courses in the edX app
  • What can I do on the edX app?
  • What types of assignments can be done in the edX app?
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  • Downloading videos in the edX App
  • Why can’t I enroll in a Professional Education course on the edX app?

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  • How do course discussions work?

How do course discussions work?

Course discussions give you the opportunity to start conversations with other learners, ask questions that other learners or members of the course team can answer, and interact with other learners in the course.

Where do I find course discussions? #

In your course, click the Discussions tab.

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On the left side of the Discussions page, the navigation pane displays all of the topics and posts in the course’s discussions. All topics, both course-wide and content-specific, can be read and posted to from the navigation pane.

Posts in the navigation pane have indicators that show the role of the person who posted the topic (such as Staff or Community TA), whether you have already viewed the topic, whether you are following the topic, and so on.

In the main area of the Discussions page, when you have not selected any topics or posts, you see a “How to use edX discussions” graphic. The graphic shows the basic actions you can take with course discussions:

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For more information about the various indicators used in the discussions navigation pane, and how to sort, filter, and search for posts, see Reading posts on the Discussions page.

What are discussion topics? #

Discussion topics are created by the course team and organize all posts in the course discussion. Discussion topics can be course-wide or content-specific.

  • Course-wide topics cover matters that relate to the entire course, such as “Frequently Asked Questions” or “Troubleshooting”. In the discussion navigation pane, course-wide topics do not have other topics indented below them.
  • Content-specific topics exist “inline” as part of a course unit, and relate to specific pieces of course content, such as videos, reading assignments, homework problems, or other course content. For example, after you watch a video, the course team might add a content-specific discussion so that you and other learners can discuss the video. In the discussion navigation pane, content-specific topics are indented under an identifying category name.

How do I join my course’s discussions? #

You can ask a question or start a conversation within a topic, or respond to someone else’s post or response. For more information, see Adding posts in a discussion. 

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Updated on July 25, 2021
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