Someone at edx was able to quickly send a few texts to himself using the tool.
Each text came from a different number and there was no message about the ability to unsubscribe or stop.
This could potentially be used to spam users as well as potentially result in charges to edX for high volume.
page url https://courses.edx.org/text-me-the-app
LEARNER-8286
This commit removes several waffle toggles that have been enabled
on edx.org for years. It's time to remove the rollout gating for
these features and enable them by default.
This doesn't directly change any behavior. But it does create new
database objects by default now and allows for enabling other
schedule based features more easily.
Specifically, the following toggles were affected.
schedules.create_schedules_for_course
- Waffle flag removed as always-enabled
- We now always create a schedule when an enrollment is created
schedules.send_updates_for_course
- Waffle flag removed as always-enabled
- Course update emails are sent as long as the ScheduleConfig
allows it.
- This is not a change in default behavior, because ScheduleConfig
is off by default.
dynamic_pacing.studio_course_update
- Waffle switch removed as always-enabled
- Course teams can now always edit course updates directly in Studio
ScheduleConfig.create_schedules
ScheduleConfig.hold_back_ratio
- Model fields for rolling out the schedules feature
- Schedules are now always created
- This commit only removes references to these fields, they still
exist in the database. A future commit will remove them entirely
This commit also adds a new has_highlights field to CourseOverview.
This is used to cache whether a course has highlights, used to
decide which course update email behavior they get. Previously every
enrollment had to dig into the modulestore to determine that.
* Generate common/djangoapps import shims for LMS
* Generate common/djangoapps import shims for Studio
* Stop appending project root to sys.path
* Stop appending common/djangoapps to sys.path
* Import from common.djangoapps.course_action_state instead of course_action_state
* Import from common.djangoapps.course_modes instead of course_modes
* Import from common.djangoapps.database_fixups instead of database_fixups
* Import from common.djangoapps.edxmako instead of edxmako
* Import from common.djangoapps.entitlements instead of entitlements
* Import from common.djangoapps.pipline_mako instead of pipeline_mako
* Import from common.djangoapps.static_replace instead of static_replace
* Import from common.djangoapps.student instead of student
* Import from common.djangoapps.terrain instead of terrain
* Import from common.djangoapps.third_party_auth instead of third_party_auth
* Import from common.djangoapps.track instead of track
* Import from common.djangoapps.util instead of util
* Import from common.djangoapps.xblock_django instead of xblock_django
* Add empty common/djangoapps/__init__.py to fix pytest collection
* Fix pylint formatting violations
* Exclude import_shims/ directory tree from linting
- Looks at masquerading config for dates, outline, metadata, and
celebration APIs in course_home_api / courseware_api.
- Consolidates and cleans up places we check whether masquerading
gives us full access to a course.
We now either pass in the relevant courseoverview or when creating the
enrollement we use the factory which automatically creates the relevant
CourseOverview object for testing purposes.
The enrollmentStatusHash cookie value was created in commit f0030334
as an optimization, in order to determine whether the marketing site
needs to refresh the list of a student's enrolled courses with a
call to the LMS. To ensure that this value was kept up to date,
commit d7a7bcc1 reset the user's cookies every time they go to the
learner dashboard page (which used to be the next page loaded after
you enrolled in a course). This didn't just reset the
enrollmentStatusHash though -- it recalculated all the cookie
values, as if you had just logged in.
A number of things have changed since then:
1. Enrolling in a course now goes to that course's info/navigation
page, rather than going to the student dashboard.
2. It doesn't appear that the value of enrollmentStatusHash is
actually being examined anywhere -- it's set in a cookie on the
LMS and read/written by the edX marketing front end code, but
the value is never looked at to make any decisions.
3. The introduction of add_email_marketing_cookies (which triggers
off of the CREATE_LOGON_COOKIE signal) has made cookie resets
far more expensive, as there is a blocking call to Sailthru if
you have that enabled in EmailMarketingConfiguration (which
edx.org does). This can add over two seconds to the server
processing time for the student dashboard at certain times of
day.
Given this, I'm removing both the call to resetting the cookie on
the student dashboard page, as well as setting the value for
enrollmentStatusHash.
When set, displays the configured text/markup under "You are not enrolled in any courses yet."
Adjusts left/right padding on .empty-dashboard-message to keep our extra message from hitting the sides.
(cherry picked from commit e417c5f8c2)
Site Configuration and feature flag
When set, it hides the Courses list on the Learner Dashboard page if the
learner has not yet activated their account.
(cherry picked from commit 22ee400b15)
