The progress page did a number of things that make performance terrible for
courses with large numbers of problems, particularly if those problems are
customresponse CapaModule problems that need to be executed via codejail.
The grading code takes pains to not instantiate student state and execute the
problem code. If a student has answered the question, the max score is stored
in StudentModule. However, if the student hasn't attempted the question yet, we
have to run the problem code just to call .max_score() on it. This is necessary
in grade() if the student has answered other problems in the assignment (so we
can know what to divide by). This is always necessary to know in
progress_summary() because we list out every problem there. Code execution can
be especially slow if the problems need to invoke codejail.
To address this, we create a MaxScoresCache that will cache the max raw score
possible for every problem. We select the cache keys so that it will
automatically become invalidated when a new version of the course is published.
The fundamental assumption here is that a problem cannot have two different
max score values for two unscored students. A problem *can* score two students
differently such that they have different max scores. So Carlos can have 2/3 on
a problem, while Lyla gets 3/4. But if neither Carlos nor Lyla has ever
interacted with the problem (i.e. they're just seeing it on their progress
page), they must both see 0/4 -- it cannot be the case that Carlos sees 0/3 and
Lyla sees 0/4.
We used to load all student state into two separate FieldDataCache instances,
after which we do a bunch of individual queries for scored items. Part of this
split-up was done because of locking problems, but I think we might have gotten
overzealous with our manual transaction hammer.
In this commit, we consolidate all state access in grade() and progress()
to use one shared FieldDataCache. We also use a filter so that we only pull
back StudentModule state for things that might possibly affect the grade --
items that either have scores or have children.
Because some older XModules do work in their __init__() methods (like Video),
instantiating them takes time, particularly on large courses. This commit also
changes the code that fetches the grading_context to filter out children that
can't possibly affect the grade.
Finally, we introduce a ScoresClient that also tries to fetch score
information all at once, instead of in separate queries. Technically, we are
fetching this information redundantly, but that's because the state and score
interfaces are being teased apart as we move forward. Still, this only
amounts to one extra SQL query, and has very little impact on performance
overall.
Much thanks to @adampalay -- his hackathon work in #7168 formed the basis of
this.
https://openedx.atlassian.net/browse/CSM-17
Original Commit Messages:
use edx's own get_parent method, rather than our own.
add field to unique constraint to avoid MultipleObjectsReturned in case of multiple browser clicks on submit
fix 0011 migration, inherit from TimeStampedField and add composite index (migration only)
fix bug where adding an already registered user to a ccx would cause a crash due to an undefined variable
add assertNumQueries tests to test modules where override field providers are used
remove unnecessary teardown
implement recommended style for checking empty list
import utility methods rather than use duplicate code
added comment explaining date conversion to string for json
add logging for invalid users or emails when enrolling students
add comment about xmodule user state
avoid using get_or_create, which seems to be causing a race condition on schedule change save
relocate badly placed edvent handlers to fix multiple submit problem
individual students, and a reimplementation of the individual due date
feature.
This work introduces an architecture, used with the 'authored_data'
portion of LmsFieldData, which allows arbitrary field overrides to be
made for fields that are part of the course content or settings (Mongo
data). The basic architecture is extensible by means of writing and
configuring arbitrary field override providers.
One concrete implementation of a field override provider is provided
which allows for overrides to be for individual students. This provider
is then used as a basis for reimplementing the individual due date
extensions feature as a proof of concept for the design.
One can imagine writing override providers that provide overrides based
on a student's membership in a cohort or other similar idea. This work
is being done, in fact, to pave the way for the Personal Online Courses
feature being developed by MIT, which will use an override provider very
much long those lines.
This commit updates lms/djangoapps/courseware.
These keys are now objects with a limited interface, and the particular
internal representation is managed by the data storage layer (the
modulestore).
For the LMS, there should be no outward-facing changes to the system.
The keys are, for now, a change to internal representation only. For
Studio, the new serialized form of the keys is used in urls, to allow
for further migration in the future.
Co-Author: Andy Armstrong <andya@edx.org>
Co-Author: Christina Roberts <christina@edx.org>
Co-Author: David Baumgold <db@edx.org>
Co-Author: Diana Huang <dkh@edx.org>
Co-Author: Don Mitchell <dmitchell@edx.org>
Co-Author: Julia Hansbrough <julia@edx.org>
Co-Author: Nimisha Asthagiri <nasthagiri@edx.org>
Co-Author: Sarina Canelake <sarina@edx.org>
[LMS-2370]
This restores functionality that has been broken since the introduction of
XModuleDescriptor/XModule proxying (part of the XBlock transition). It generates
a CSV of all answers for all content of type "problem" in a given course, with a
row per (problem part, answer). The format is:
url_name, display name, answer id, answer, count
Example values:
url_name = "7f1b1523a55848cd9f5c93eb8cbabcf7"
display name = "Problem 1: Something Hard"
answer id = i4x-JediAcdmy-LTSB304-problem-7f1b1523a55848cd9f5c93eb8cbabcf7_2_1
answer = "Use the Force"
count = 1138
Since it only grabs things of type "problem", it will not return results for
things like self/peer-assessments. Any Loncapa problem types will show up (so
multiple choice, text input, numeric, etc.)
Instead of crawling the course tree and instantiating the appropriate CapaModule
objects to grab state, this version draws directly from StudentModule. This lets
us skip a lot of processing and most importantly lets us generate the answer
distribution without causing side-effects (since XBlocks auto-save state). It
also lets us take advantage of a read-replica database if one is available, to
minimize locking concerns.
There are minor changes to the legacy dashboard around CSV charset encoding and
a change to OptionResponseXMLFactory to make it more unicode friendly. Answer
distribution output is now also sorted, to group together answers for the same
content piece.
Note that this does not introduce celery into the process. Answer distributions
are still only available for small courses.
This was originally created to fix [LMS-922], but it also addresses [LMS-811] and
possibly other areas in the legacy dashboard where CSV downloads break due to
character encoding issues.
from client. Tasks.py remains the task implementations running on the
celery worker.
In particular, move status message generation out of task thread to client side.
