The edX system keeps track of students' progress through a course -- recording
when the student watches videos, responds to problems, and so on. If you are
a staff member on a course, some of that data is visible to you for debugging
purposes. Under every problem is a link called "Staff Debug Info": clicking
that link causes a popup to appear that contains various metadata about the
problem.
a staff member on a course, some of that data is visible to you for debugging purposes. Under every problem is a **Staff Debug Info** button: clicking this button opens a popup with metadata about the problem.
None of this information should be necessary for day-to-day usage of edX,
but for the sake of clarity, some of these fields are documented here:
The way your course looks in Studio is not the way students see and experience your course.
The way your course looks in Studio is not the way students see and experience it. To test your course, while you develop course content and afterward, you must view and interact with your course from a student's point of view.
Therefore, as and after you develop course content, you must view and test your course from a students' point of view.
From within Studio, you can test your course in two ways:
From within Studio, you can:
* :ref:`Preview Your Course`
* :ref:`View Your Live Course`
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View Your Live Course
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Switch Between Studio and Your Live Course
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When you view your course as a course team member (that is, using the same account you use to build the course in Studio),
you see all the units of your course that are set to **Public**, regardless of the release dates of the containing section or subsection.
You do not see units that are set to **Private**. To see Private units, you must use Preview mode as described above.
While you work in Studio, you can switch to your live course to see how your course appears to students. Because you are logged in as a course team member, when you switch to your live course you see the **Staff View**.
.. image:: ../Images/Live_Course_Staff_View.png
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:alt: Image of the Courseware page in a live course with Staff View indicated at top right and a View Unit in Studio button
When you view your live course, you can execute tests to make sure your course works the way you intend. For example, the course team can work through all of the problems to verify that the correct answer gets a green check for correct, and that any answer other than the correct one gets a red X for incorrect.
In **Staff View**:
* You see all of the units that are set to **Public**, regardless of the release dates of the containing section or subsection.
* You do not see units that are set to **Private**. To see Private units, you must use Preview mode as described in :ref:`Preview Your Course`.
* You can access the Instructor Dashboard, which has features and reports that help you run your course.
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.. You can also change to **Student View**. In **Student View**, the release date settings for sections and subsections apply. You can still access the Instructor Dashboard, however.
.. To switch from **Staff View** to **Student View** and back again, click **Staff View** or **Student View**.
When you view your live course in **Staff View**, you can execute tests to make sure your course works the way you intend. For example, the course team can work through all of the problems to verify that the correct answer gets a green check for correct, and that any answer other than the correct one gets a red X for incorrect.
You can view the live course from three different places in Studio:
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Go to Your Live Course from Studio
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To switch from Studio to your live course, click **View Live** on any of these pages:
* The **Course Outline** page.
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:alt: Image of a unit with the View Live button circled
When you click **View Live**, the **Courseware** page or the corresponding subsection or unit page opens.
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Go to Studio from Your Live Course
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To switch from your live course to Studio, click **View {page} in Studio** on any of these pages:
* Any unit (shown in the :ref:`View Your Live Course` section above).
