edx-milestones

edx-milestones (milestones) is a Django application which manages significant Course and/or Student events in the Open edX platform.

Usage

• A Milestone represents an event which can occur for a student while interacting with the Open edX platform.

• Relationships can be created between courses or individual sections of course content (referred to collectively as course entities going forward) and a Milestone. A relationship can indicate that a course entity either requires or fulfills a given Milestone.

• Student milestone fulfillment status can be recorded and queried.

• An example feature which Milestones supports is Pre-requisite Courses:

  • Course author selects Course 101 in Studio as a pre-requisite of Course 102
    • Studio:
      • Makes call to Milestones service API
    • Milestones:
      • Creates a new generic Milestone A for Course 101
      • Indicates that Course 101 fulfills Milestone A
      • Indicates that Course 102 requires Milestone A
  • Student Smith completes Course 101
    • LMS:
      • Makes call to Milestones service API
    • Milestones:
      • Pulls the list of milestones fulfilled by Course 101 (set includes Milestone A)
      • Indicates that Student Smith has accomplished Milestone A
  • Student Smith attempts to access Course 102
    • LMS:
      • Uses Milestones service API to compare Course 102 milestone requirements against Student Smith's milestones
      • Grants Student Smith access to Course 102

Standalone Testing and Quality Check

    $ make quality
    $ make test

Open edX Platform Integration

• Add desired tag from github code repository
  • edx-platform/requirements/github.txt
  • "Our libraries" section
• Add 'milestones' to the list of installed apps:
  • common.py
  • Feature flag convention is preferred
• In edx-platform devstack:
  • pip install -r requirements
  • paver test_system -s lms

How to Contribute

Contributions are very welcome, but please note that edx-milestones is currently an early stage work-in-progress and is changing frequently at this time.

See our CONTRIBUTING file for more information -- it also contains guidelines for how to maintain high code quality, which will make your contribution more likely to be accepted.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [email protected].

Mailing List and IRC Channel

You can discuss this code on the edx-code Google Group or in the edx-code IRC channel on Freenode.