May 15, 2014¶
The following information reflects what is new in the edX Platform as of May 15, 2014. See previous pages in this document for a history of changes.
edX Documentation¶
You can access the edX Status page to get an up-to-date status for all services on edx.org and edX Edge. The page also includes the Twitter feed for @edXstatus, which the edX Operations team uses to post updates.
You can access the public edX roadmap for details about the currently planned product direction.
The following documentation is available:
Building and Running an edX Course
You can also download the guide as a PDF from the edX Studio user interface.
Recent changes include:
- Updated the Running Your Course chapter to remove references to the “new beta” Instructor Dashboard.
- Updated Enrollment section to reflect that usernames or email addresses can be used to batch enroll students.
- Updated Grade and Answer Data section to include new features in the problem Staff Debug viewer for rescoring, resetting attempts, and deleting state for a specified student.
- Updated Staffing section to explain the labeling differences between Studio and the LMS with respect to course team roles.
- Updated Assign Discussion Administration Roles section to include a note about course staff requiring explicit granting of discussion administration roles.
- Added the VitalSource E-Reader Tool section.
- Updated Add Files to a Course section to include warnings about file size.
- Updated the LTI Component section to reflect new settings.
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Recent changes include:
Updated Tracking Logs section to include events for course enrollment activities: edx.course.enrollment.activated and edx.course.enrollment.deactivated.
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Recent changes include:
Added an Analytics section for developers.
edX Studio¶
- A problem that prevented you from hiding the Wiki in the list of Pages when using Firefox is resolved. (STUD-1581)
- A problem that prevented you from importing a course created on edx.org into edX Edge is resolved. (STUD-1599)
- All text in the Video component UI has been updated for clarity. (DOC-206)
edX Learning Management System¶
- The Instructor Dashboard that appears to course teams by default in the LMS has changed. The Instructor Dashboard that appears when you click Instructor is now the “New Beta” dashboard. The “Standard” dashboard remains available; a button click is required to access it. The two dashboard versions are also relabeled in this release. The version that was previously identified as the “New Beta Dashboard” is now labeled “Instructor Dashboard”, and the version previously identified as the “Standard Dashboard” is now labeled “Legacy Dashboard”. (LMS-1296)
- Previously, when a student clicked Run Code for a MatLab problem, the entire page was reloaded. This issue has been resolved so that now only the MatLab problem elements are reloaded. (LMS-2505)