[DEPR]: Legacy instructor dashboard

[holaontiveros]

RFC Start Date

2026-04-23

Target Plan Accepted Date

2026-05-07

Target Transition Unblocked Date

2026-05-21

Earliest Breaking Changes Unblocked Date

2026-06-25

Earliest Open edX Named Release with Breaking Changes

Verawood - 2026-04

Rationale

The new instructor dashboard is in place and will be the default experience for all instructor dashboard functionality

Removal

openedx-platform/lms/djangoapps/instructor/views/instructor_dashboard.py

Line 147 in c3d0c17

sections = []

The implementation for the old instructor dashboard view + related code + related tests, related tests will have the DEPR-38432 number tagged in a comment

Replacement

Link to the new instructor dashboard:

https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-instructor-dashboard

Deprecation

All code that was found while working on enabling the instructor dashboard redirection by default was marked with the "DEPR-XXXX" tag so it's easily identifiable

Additional Info

No response

Transition Unblocked Tasks

No response

Feature Removal Tasks

No response

[sarina]

Thanks @holaontiveros - be sure you follow the announcement procedures too in https://docs.openedx.org/projects/openedx-proposals/en/latest/processes/oep-0021-proc-deprecation.html