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title: Open edX Studio Guide
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# Open edX Studio Guide
## Create, Organize, and Manage Course Content in Open edX Studio
### Overview
Open edX Studio is the web-based course authoring platform where educators, instructional designers, and course administrators build and manage online courses. Studio provides a visual workspace to outline course structures, develop learning assets, configure grading rules, and publish finished modules directly to the Learning Management System (LMS).
### Core Structural Layout
Studio coordinates content using a strict structural hierarchy, managed directly within the **Course Outline** view.
1. **Sections (Chapters):** The highest level of organization (e.g., *Week 1* or *Module 1*).
2. **Subsections (Sequential):** Located inside Sections, these typically represent individual lessons or topics (e.g., *Lesson 1.1*). This is where assignment types and release grading parameters are assigned.
3. **Units (Vertical):** Located inside Subsections, these represent a single page as seen by the learner in the LMS.
4. **Components:** The interactive building blocks placed inside a Unit (e.g., HTML text blocks, Videos, Problems, or Advanced components).
### Primary Procedures in Studio
#### 1. Navigating the Course Outline Workspace
- Log in to **Studio** and click on your target course card from the main dashboard.
- The system opens the **Course Outline** page by default.
- Use the **Expand All** or **Collapse All** buttons at the top right to manage your view of the sections and subsections.
- Drag-and-drop handles are available on the left side of every section, subsection, and unit row to easily reorder your curriculum.
#### 3. Setting Course Rules and Parameters
Technical adjustments to how the course run operates are handled through the top navigation menus:
- **Schedule & Details (Settings \> Schedule & Details):** Configure course start/end dates, enrollment limits, certificate behavior, and define your course pacing model.
- **Advanced Settings (Settings \> Advanced Settings):** Control advanced technical properties, feature flags, and add custom XBlock integrations, including advanced XBlocks.
- **Grading (Settings \> Grading):** Set passing scores, grade tracking weights, and manage assignment types (e.g., *Homework, Midterm, Final*).
#### 4. Publishing Content to the LMS
Changes made in Studio are saved automatically as a draft until you publish them.
- **Preview:** Click the **Preview** button at the top right of the unit page to see how your draft looks without showing it to enrolled learners.
- **Publish:** Click the **Publish** button in the right-hand status panel to push your finalized content live to the LMS.
- **View Live Version:** Click this button to transition immediately into the student-facing LMS player to interact with the published page.
### Key Operational Best Practices
- **Component Reusability:** When building modular text or exercises, utilize the **Content Libraries** system to house source content that can be easily pushed across multiple course runs simultaneously.
- **Staff Testing:** Always utilize the **View Live Version** action to check your problem sets and ensure grading behaviors respond accurately prior to your course start date.
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