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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.

Basics

• 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.
• Tips for copy editing - How to write for a MOOC course.

Course structure

• 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.

Edit contents of pages in MOOC material

• 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).
• Embedding content - How to embed different content types.

Finishing up

• 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.

Finetuning

• Author block - What is an author block and how to use it.

Course administration

• 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.

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Platform admin

• Add new course - How to create a new course area.