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With great power comes great responsibility… And dragging and dropping as you customize your own courses? That’s the greatest power of all. Or, like...having Spiderman’s powers, or any superhero, really. But whatever, this is a close second.


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Thank you We sneak in customizable classes last month What

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do they think of next All right it's not always

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just about the quality of the content Sometimes it's about

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the order in which you read it We learned that

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the hard way when we started with the sixth harry

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potter book first So are you a fan ish mumps

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content but have a thing or two to say about

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the organization of it Well no worries we put the

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power in your hands from up Classes are fully customizable

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take units from any of our two hundred plus courses

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and dragon dropped them in whatever order your little heart

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desires Hey if you want to follow a lesson on

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multi variable calculus with one on the themes of the

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grapes of wrath well knock yourself out although in that

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case it might be tough to say which would be

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more depressing if there's a particular unit or several you're

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not thrilled about nixon You don't have to be married

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to anything you're not in love with which is good

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news because evenings at the dinner table would be awkward

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Just be sure you select the courses you want carefully

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Since you get four max four is both the number

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of beetles and the number of players on official curling

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team So who are we to argue with success All

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right so you decide you want to give this custom

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ization things spin How do you go about it Well

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for starters go to www shmoop dot com slash my

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slash classrooms and click on create a classroom right there

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Name your classroom Sorry bob is already taken and choose

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the products you'd like to include next Choose customized class

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content and click okay just keep in mind that once

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you do that there's no going back Who who would

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have thought this video would have gotten so ominous Okay

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once you're done choose whatever units you want You can

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preview the content If you're not sure and click continue

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dragon drop him in the order you want Then go

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ahead and set a task due dates well you can

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change due dates later but you can't change the order

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later so you must choose Choose wisely next pick your

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class settings and don't sweat about those because you can

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always switch him up later and then continue confirm revue

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And submit and you're in you'll be wished away to

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your new classroom in overview scroll the class re sources

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and from there you can click right into the course

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you'll be able to change due dates here plus you'll

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be privy to an overview and managed tabs which is

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a good thing because you don't want those tabs getting

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out of line under the unit's tab You'll see all

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the included units click on anyone and it will bring

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you to that unit with the course you just created

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And there you go The creature of your own design

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has suddenly come to life and will henceforth bow to

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your every whim You may want to keep a violin

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handy though just in case it develops a mind of

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its own right Well that's about all there is to

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shmoop ce customizable classes Any questions drop us a line

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It supported shmoop dot com We'll get right back to

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you as soon as we're done dealing with our own 00:03:01.04 --> [endTime] little monster here

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