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Secret project is is an online course platform developed by the MOOC Center of the University of Helsinki. It is currently used in courses available in https://courses.mooc.fi.
- Get started - How to create a user account and access course area.
- Feature list - Overview of available features.
- Create and publish a new course - Brief description of steps required to create and launch a new MOOC course.
- Clone a course - How to create a new course instance or language version from an existing course area.
- Tips for copy editing - How to write for a MOOC course.
- Add chapters and lesson pages - How to create the structure of your MOOC course though chapters and pages.
- Editing chapters and chapter cards - What chapter settings exist and how they can be edited.
- Blocks ‐ list and descriptions - What elements are available and examples of their usage.
- Edit lesson pages - How to edit page contents.
- Add new exercise - How to add new exercises. Hierarchy of exercise elements explained (Exercise, slide, task, quiz item).
- Page hero sections - How to edit page hero sections to make them visually appealing.
- Embedding content - How to embed different content types.
- File size limits - How big can the files uploaded to the platform be.
- Glossary - Create a list of key terms and display it in a smart way.
- Reference management - Use the built-in reference management tool to display references in a neat and unobtrusive way.
- Author block - What is an author block and how to use it.
- Code giveaway - How to create, manage and distribute unique codes.
- Exercise types - List of exercise types available and examples for their use.
- Add new exercise - How to add new exercises. Hierarchy of exercise elements explained (Exercise, slide, task, quiz item).
- Peer review - how to set up - How to set up peer review for exercises. Students grade each other's submissions.
- Manual grading and resetting exercises - How to set up manual grading for exercises; how to grade exercises manually; how to reset exercises for students.
- Multiple choice grading policies - How to set up automatic grading for multiple choice questions. Some grading policies are more unforgiving than others.
- Points calculation logic - How points are divided within an exercise.
- Chatbots - Set up an integrated chatbot for your course.
- Configure automatic completions - Set thresholds for the number of exercises attempted and points required to completed the course.
- Exams - create and configure - Optional: You can create an exam that students take on the MOOC platform.
- Certificates - Optional: Configure unofficial course certificates that are not connected to credits.
- Testing course material - How to test your course material and how to open course material for group of testers.
- Image guidelines - What kind of images should be used in different elements of the MOOC material.
- Editing chapters and chapter cards - How to change chapter card images.
- Page hero sections - How to edit page hero sections to make them visually appealing.
- Close a course - What closing a course means and how a course can be closed.
- Statistics - What are course statistics and how to view them.
- Manually adding completions - How to add completions manually if students do not receive automatic completions for a course.
- Manual grading and resetting exercises - How to set up manual grading for exercises; how to grade exercises manually; how to reset exercises for students.
- Course visibility - Manage course visibility: Who can access the course material and how.
- Course instances - How to create points lists for different organizations or course versions.
- Creating a language version of a course - How to create a language version of the MOOC material.
- Page version history - How page version history works and how to restore an older version of a page.
- Export CSV files to Excel - Tips for making data downloaded from the MOOC platform easily editable in Excel.
- Add new course - How to create a new course area.