The new mechanism for marking that a unit has discussions is to use the
discussion_enabled flag instead of adding a discussion block. This change
adds code that is run during the course rerun process to mark any existing
units that have a discussion block as discussible using the new mechanism.
It doesn't touch the existing discussion blocks.
If the new discussions configuration experience is globally enabled, this
will also switch from the legacy provider to the new provider. It analyses
the course for any discussion blocks that have been added to graded
subsections, and if that is the case, it also automatically enables
discussions in graded subsections (which are otherwise disabled for new
courses by default).
Tracks a discussion topics' section and subsection in a new context field so that we have access to that information when the topic's section/subsection/unit has been deleted. This is then used when a topic is deleted to append the section and subsection name to the topic title.
ADR: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/29928
This PR changes the default behaviour of the discussions experience by making the previous "unit-level
visibility" the default mechanism for configuring discussions.
Prior to this PR, under the new discussions configuration experience, all units would automatically get
assigned a discussion topic and have discussions enabled for them (other than units in graded or exam
subsections). However, if authors wanted they could enabled a custom visibility mode which would allow
toggling discussions on or off on a per-unit level.
This PR makes this custom visibility mode the standard behaviour (and eventually, only behaviour)
and enables discussion for all units by default. This replicates the behaviour that already existed,
however, now gives authors control over disabling discussions for individual units by default.
It also removes the ability to disable discussions for all units (while still keeping course-wide
discussions) enabled.
The current logic for showing discussion providers makes it hard to switch
from the legacy to the new provider. This commit changes the conditions in
which different providers are shown, and which provider is used as default.
Before this commit, the new provider would be hidden if the legacy provider
was in use and vice-versa. So both would only be shown if neither legacy
nor the new provider were in use (i.e. an LTI provider was in use).
Now, all providers are always displayed to global staff. If the waffle
flag for the new provider is set
(`discussions.enable_new_structure_discussions`), then new provider is
always displayed, and the legacy provider is hidden unless it's currently
in use.
If flag is not set, then the new provider is always hidden unless it is
used by a course.
Finally, the default provider now depends on the flag above. If it is
set globally, then the default provider is the new provider, otherwise
the legacy provider remains the default provider.
- Moving xmodule folder to root as we're dissolving sub-projects of common folder in edx-platform
- More info: https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/BOM-2579
- -e common/lib/xmodule has been removed from the requirements as xmodule has itself become the part of edx-platform and not being installed through requirements
- The test files common/lib/xmodule/test_files/ have been removed as they are not being used anymore
* refactor: modified the imports to use openedx-events library
* chore: upgrade openedx-events to latest version
* fix: ran isort to avoid style errors
Co-authored-by: Maria Grimaldi <maria.grimaldi@edunext.co>
It's long past time that the default test modulestore was Split,
instead of Old Mongo. This commit switches the default store and
fixes some tests that now fail:
- Tests that didn't expect MFE to be enabled (because we don't
enable MFE for Old Mongo) - opt out of MFE for those
- Tests that hardcoded old key string formats
- Lots of other random little differences
In many places, I didn't spend much time trying to figure out how to
properly fix the test, and instead just set the modulestore to Old
Mongo.
For those tests that I didn't spend time investigating, I've set
the modulestore to TEST_DATA_MONGO_AMNESTY_MODULESTORE - search for
that string to find further work.
* feat: New API for discussion topics
Creates a new API for discussion topics that uses auto-crated discussion topic links for the new discussion provider.
* squash!: refresh migration
* feat: Adds a new discussion topic configuration mechanism
The new discussion configuration system links discussion topics directly to the course structure. This change adds a new task that sends a discussion update signal if there are any changes to the course. This signal includes all the context needed to update the configuration of the course.
The handler for this new event will create a new entry for each unit that needs a topic in the database. In the future this will be used to see the topics in the course.
* fix: add support for marking a provider as supporting LTI
* fix: review feedback
* feat: Adds discussions settings for new discusions experience
This commit adds new discussions settings for the new discussions experience. These are stored in the course so they can be a part of course import/export flow.
These are also added to the discussions configuraiton API to allow MFEs to update the settings.
The discussions API is currently available via LMS, however that means it cannot save changes to the modulestore. This also adds the API to the studio config so it can now also be accessed from studio and be used to save course settings.
* fix: tests
This commit adds new discussions settings for the new discussions experience. These are stored in the course so they can be a part of course import/export flow.
These are also added to the discussions configuraiton API to allow MFEs to update the settings.
The discussions API is currently available via LMS, however that means it cannot save changes to the modulestore. This also adds the API to the studio config so it can now also be accessed from studio and be used to save course settings.
For authenticated users that are not global staff, changing discussion
providers after a course has started fails with 403 Forbidden.
Related issues:
* [BB-4253](https://tasks.opencraft.com/browse/BB-4253)
* [TNL-8142](https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/TNL-8142)
BREAKING CHANGE:
Course staff, who were previously allowed to do this operation,
will instead receive a 403 Forbidden response.
Code in ./common/lib/xmodule/xmodule should
be imported as `from xmodule`, since `xmodule`
is a locally-installed package.
This is weird, but as long as it is the case,
we should be consistent.
(In BOM-2584, I propose moving the files to
./xmodule, which would quell this confusion.)
This commit adjusts a few values in our discussions configuration APIs to make them match what the frontend needs, as well as to more accurately reflect the providers available today.
- The `active` provider ID is expressed as None if it doesn’t exist
- The “cs_comments_service” provider has been renamed “legacy” - when we implement the new discussions micro-frontend, we’ll also have a separate provider for that, so they can’t both be “cs_comments_service”. Also, cs_comments_service is such a bad name for anything.
- The hard-coded providers list in get_supported_providers now includes ‘legacy’ and ‘piazza’, our two known providers. This list will be updated as more known providers come online.
- The PROVIDER_FEATURE_MAP has similarly been updated.
Part of this task: TNL-8093
