Adds a new Email link to the instructor dashboard for frontend interface to send
email to course members. Adds a feature flag ENABLE_INSTRUCTOR_EMAIL to toggle this.
Creates a new djangoapp bulk_email that handles this action by getting the recipient
list and batching the emails to different celery tasks to do the actual sending.
Requires lynx package to convert HTML email to plaintext. Handles SMTP errors by
retrying or falling through to the next email. Adds the option to opt out of course
specific emails in the user dashboard with an Email Settings link for each course.
Uses severable configurable settings with defaults. DEFAULT_BULK_FROM_EMAIL
specifies the from address for email. EMAILS_PER_TASK specifies the number of emails
each celery task takes on. EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_PORT, EMAIL_HOST_USER,
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD, and EMAIL_USE_TLS for the SMTP email backend settings.
Co-authored-by: Akshay Jagadeesh <akjags@gmail.com>
Features coming down the pipe will want to be able to:
* Refer to enrollments before they are actually activated (approval step).
* See what courses a user used to be enrolled in for when they re-enroll in
the same course, or a different run of that course.
* Have different "modes" of enrolling in a course, representing things like
honor certificate enrollment, auditing (no certs), etc.
This change adds an is_active flag and mode (with default being "honor").
The commit is only as large as it is because many parts of the codebase were
manipulating enrollments by adding and removing CourseEnrollment objects
directly. It was necessary to create classmethods on CourseEnrollment to
encapsulate this functionality and then port everything over to using them.
The migration to add columns has been tested on a prod replica, and seems to be
fine for running on a live system with single digit millions of rows of
enrollments.
So that instructors have easy access to the mapping from anonymized
IDs (a simple MD5 hash of the user ID that's used when integrating
with third-party services like Qualtrics) to user IDs, we have a
simple Django management command to generate a CSV mapping. To run,
use the following:
rake django-admin[anonymized_id_mapping,<system>,<env>,<course_id>]
And, of course, substitute the appropriate values for <system>, <env>,
and <course_id>. (E.g., lms, dev, and MITx/6.002x/Circuits)
