
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Under the requirements of quality education, high schools in various places have successively carried out elective courses activities. It is known that a certain high school offers $3$ elective courses for students to choose from. Now, there are $5$ students in a class participating in the elective course activities. It is required that each of these $5$ students choose one course and each course has students choosing it. The number of ways these $5$ students can choose their courses is ______.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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