django-courseaffils

courseaffils is a django app which manages course information and can force course-selection after login so to make which course is selected part of session state.

The selected course is available in request.course .

Several settings are available to be added to a django project's settings.py:

COURSEAFFILS_EXEMPT_PATHS

Directories which are available without selecting a course. request.course will not be available from these directories.

Example:

('/accounts/','/site_media/','/admin/','/api/',)

COURSEAFFILS_PATHS

Directories where selecting a course is forced Example:

('/users/','/essays/',
 re.compile(r'^/$'), #the homepage
)

COURSEAFFILS_COURSESTRING_MAPPER

This will be a Class that has several connections to the Course admin form, which make it possible to enter a course string and automatically generate the proper group names.

COURSEAFFILS_COURSESTRING_MAPPER.on_create also gives a hook when a course is created to do post-creation changes on it (to fill in course info)

Example: see courseaffils.columbia.CourseStringMapper

SERVER_ADMIN_SECRETKEYS

This is a dict of hosts which can get override access and possibly info about a course through an api, without logging in, etc.

Example:

{'http://www.example.com/':'secret_when_example.com_interfaces with us'}

Template Tags

When developers include {% load coursetags %} into their template, their are several tags available:

{% public_name for user %}

prints the full name of user variable and falls back to the username. When an ANONYMIZE cookie is present, then it will be replaced with "User Name_" so things can be anonymized quickly.

This calls courseaffils.lib.get_public_name(user, request)

{% get_courses for user as courses %}

sets the variable courses to the list of courses the user variable is in

{% course_role for user in course as course_role %}

sets the variable course_role to one of:

• no-course
• non-member
• instructor
• student