Commit d68c36e6 by Sylvia Pearce

Add introduction to student-facing docs

parent 686ca3d7
.. _Introduction:
#################
Introduction
#################
Welcome to edX! We're glad you're taking a course with us and we hope you're as
excited as we are about online learning.
To make the transition to online learning easier, we've put together this guide
to introduce you to edX. The guide shows you what courses look like and
answers common questions around getting started, participating in course
discussions, completing exercises in your course, and receiving a
certificate. This guide is still under development, and we encourage you to
submit feedback to `docs@edx.org <mailto://docs@edx.org>`_.
Thanks for checking out this guide. We hope you enjoy your edX course!
.. _Time Zones:
************************
A Note about Time Zones
************************
As you work through your course, you'll see dates and times when new materials
are released and when homework assignments and exams are due. It's important to
remember that edX lists all times in universal coordinated time (UTC).
When you see a time in your course, we recommend that you use a time zone converter
to convert the UTC time to your local time. You can any converter that you want,
including one of the following time zone converters.
`Time and Date Time Zone Converter <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
>`_
`Time Zone Converter <http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc>`_
.. _Browsers:
************************
Supported Browsers
************************
EdX runs on the following browsers:
* `Chrome <https://www.google.com/chrome>`_
* `Firefox <https://mozilla.org/firefox>`_
* `Internet Explorer <https://microsoft.com/ie>`_
* `Safari <https://www.apple.com/safari>`_
The edX platform is routinely tested and verified on the current
and previous version of each of these browsers. We generally encourage the
use of and fully support only the latest version.
This information is updated as new major operating system and browser versions
are released. All point releases are supported unless noted; occasional
exceptions are based on specific bug fixes or feature updates.
The following table shows current operating system and browser support for the edX
platform.
.. list-table::
:widths: 20 10 10 10 10 10
:header-rows: 1
* -
- Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox
- IE 9
- IE 10
* - Windows 7
- Yes
- N/A
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
* - Mac OSX 10.8 or 10.9
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- N/A
- N/A
......@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ October 2014
* - Date
- Change
* - 10/28/14
- Added :ref:`Introduction` section
* - 10/24/14
- Added :ref:`Course Discussions` section
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......@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ edX Guide for Students
:maxdepth: 2
change_log
SFD_introduction
SFD_certificates
SFD_mathformatting
SFD_ORA
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