Adds a feature to the edX platform which allows instructors to set
individual due dates for students on particular coursework. This code is
meant primarily for on-campus use--it is not intended that this feature
would be used for MOOCs. It adds a new tab, "Extensions", to the beta
instructor dashboard which allows changing due dates per student. This
feature is enabled by setting FEATURES['INDIVIDUAL_DUE_DATES'] = True.
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.
By transparently proxying between the XModuleDescriptor and the XModule,
and between their runtimes, we can make them act as a single class, so
that we can swap in an actual XBlock instead.
stores_state is now only used in a single test, in conjunction with
has_score. In practice, it's never the case that stores_state is false
when has_score is true, so we can delete stores_state entirely, and just
use has_score for the grading test.
- ops view for the desktop app to talk to
- xmodule that talks to the foldit model and displays the student's state
- grading tweak to make grade updates from an external service work:
- Add an always_recalculate_grades property to XModuleDescriptor.
This cuts the number of queries in 6.002 courseware loads from ~650 to
~5-40. Still to do: cache CustomTag templates so that we only load them
once per request.
The real fix would be to have yield_dynamic_descriptor_descendents return
things in the proper order, but I'm not entirely sure what's going on
there, and this is a bug on prod now.
