I will most often see a mistake or want to make changes to a topic page while NOT in edit mode. I will then need to take the following steps to make changes. 1) click the back button, 2) click the edit button, 3) make changes, 4) click preview the see changes. If you had an edit button in the topic page every time I viewed it, I would only need to click ONCE. The system that exists requires 4 clicks. It's so time consuming.

Completely agree. There needs to be an edit button when I'm looking at a specific topic page. I shouldn't have to go back to the list of topics to edit. As another person mentioned, this should be the same for assignments. There should be an edit option on the assignment detail page itself. It super annoying to notice a type, have to leave the assignment (or topic) to go back to the assignment center (or page with all the topics) to edit.

I don't always enter a topic page through edit mode. Let's say I am in a topic page but not in edit mode and I want to make a quick change, I would need to go back to the topic page and click the edit button. Even more frustrating, let's say I'm in a future topic page (not in edit mode), I would need to go back to the topic pages, click future and then click edit topic.

If there could be an edit button while in the topic page, a quick fix would take 1 click as apposed to 2 or 3.

The same goes for assignments.

Wordpress does this, if you are logged into Wordpress you can edit the page from preview or the website.

@angela I think the preview button inside is fine, but to get to the Edit mode at all, you need to be on the Topics page (with the title images of all your topics), instead of viewing the inside of the topic and having an Edit button there.

why are you exiting edit mode to preview it? Why not just use the preview function in edit and then when you hit back on that you're still in edit mode?

Also add an edit button to assignments within assignments