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Coursera: With In-Class Search, Knowledge is at your Fingertips!
Editor’s note: Grace Kwan is a summer intern at Coursera and has been instrumental in creating student tools to help each of the 4 million Courserians navigate their courses with more efficiency. In this post, Grace will tell us about a new feature she has built called In-Class Search. One of the awesome characteristics of online courses is how easy it is to offer a wide variety of content. With tools like in-video quizzes and peer grading, MOOCs are a far cry from the traditional chalkboard lecture. But as the weeks go on, it can be a challenge to keep track of everything you’ve seen in a course. We’ve all been there: “just when was it that the professor mentioned underwater basket-weaving techniques…?” That’s why we’ve been working on a new feature to save you the trouble of re-watching all those videos and rereading all those forum threads. With In-Class Search, we hope that anything you’re looking for will only be a few keyst…