The Randomized Content Block XBlock only randomizes the selection of
the children blocks and has unpredictable randomization of
the order of the selected child blocks due to the usage of sets, which
are unordered, for storing the selected blocks. This becomes apparent
when all the available child blocks in a library are chosen for a
Randomized Content Block, to randomize just the order of the child
blocks and not just the selection of the blocks. The order of the
selected blocks ends up being similar for multiple learners.
This change modifies the XBlock to store the selected child blocks in
a list, instead of a set, after randomly shuffling them.
We saw an increase in response time with recent changes to the logic
behind get_course_assignments. This effort works to better access
the information we need in order to improve performance.
Namely, this is done by using the course_blocks_api
The Randomized Content Block XBlock only randomizes the selection of
the children blocks and has unpredictable randomization of
the order of the selected child blocks due to the usage of sets, which
are unordered, for storing the selected blocks. This becomes apparent
when all the available child blocks in a library are chosen for a
Randomized Content Block, to randomize just the order of the child
blocks and not just the selection of the blocks. The order of the
selected blocks ends up being similar for multiple learners.
This change modifies the XBlock to store the selected child blocks in
a list, instead of a set, after randomly shuffling them.
The Randomized Content Block XBlock only randomizes the selection of
the children blocks and has unpredictable randomization of
the order of the selected child blocks due to the usage of sets, which
are unordered, for storing the selected blocks. This becomes apparent
when all the available child blocks in a library are chosen for a
Randomized Content Block, to randomize just the order of the child
blocks and not just the selection of the blocks. The order of the
selected blocks ends up being similar for multiple learners.
This change modifies the XBlock to store the selected child blocks in
a list, instead of a set, after randomly shuffling them.
This PR is based on #19284 and is part of the
series of work related to the proposal #18134.
This PR avoids the assignment of
anonymous/unenrolled users to any cohort when
course is public. Anonymous or unenrolled users
will only see content that does not have a
content group assigned.
The "View Course" link to the course outline
is shown on the course about page for a course
marked public/public outline.
It also makes course handouts available for
public courses (not for public_outline).
This PR also hides the different warnings and
messages asking the user to sign-in and enroll
in the course, when the course is marked public.
It modifies the default public_view text to
include the component display_name when
unenrolled access is not available.
All code in this PR should be removed after REVE-52 is merged and mobile
traffic from older app versions falls to < 5% of the mobile traffic
to the course_blocks api
Content Type Gating: Xblocks that have a graded component cannot be
accessed by audit track users.
- Caveats:
- In studio, instructors can set certain xblocks to be available to
all users, but graded components will default to not being
available for audit users
- If a course does not have a verified mode option, all users will
have access to graded content.
The Waffle Flag: The waffle flag is of for now.
It's name is: ```content_type_gating.debug```
This Commit Does NOT Include: Displaying for a user WHY they do not have
access to a specific piece of content. That change will be part of
another PR.
