feat: add verified student course ratings and reviews

[Jidnyasa-P]

Description

Students currently cannot share feedback about courses they have enrolled in. Add a course review system that allows enrolled students to submit one rating and review per course.

The feature should display an average rating and review count on course cards and course-detail pages.

Proposed Features

• Allow only enrolled students to submit reviews.

• Support ratings from 1 to 5 stars.

• Allow an optional written review.

• Permit one review per student per course.

• Allow students to edit or delete their own review.

• Display:

  • Average course rating
  • Total review count
  • Rating distribution
  • Recent reviews

• Add sorting by:

  • Newest
  • Oldest
  • Highest rated
  • Lowest rated

• Add pagination or Load More for reviews.

• Show a verified-enrollment badge.

• Add empty, loading, and error states.

• Update rating summaries immediately after review changes.

Backend Requirements

Create a review model containing:

• User ID
• Course ID
• Rating
• Review text
• Created timestamp
• Updated timestamp

Add protected endpoints to:

• Create a review
• Retrieve course reviews
• Update the current user’s review
• Delete the current user’s review
• Retrieve rating summary

Add a compound unique index on user ID and course ID.

Validate:

• Rating range
• Review length
• Enrollment ownership
• Course existence

Frontend Requirements

• Add a rating summary to course cards and detail pages.
• Add a review form for eligible students.
• Add review cards with timestamps.
• Add edit and delete controls for the review owner.
• Add accessible star-rating controls.
• Add responsive review layouts.

Acceptance Criteria

• Only enrolled students can submit reviews.
• Students can submit only one review per course.
• Ratings accept values from 1 through 5.
• Students can edit and delete only their own reviews.
• Average rating updates correctly.
• Rating distribution totals are correct.
• Course cards display the rating summary.
• Reviews support sorting and pagination.
• Empty, loading, and error states are included.
• The interface works on mobile and desktop.
• Existing course and enrollment features remain unchanged.

@udaycodespace Kindly assign me this issue under ECSOC26

[Jidnyasa-P]

/assign

[github-actions]

@Jidnyasa-P, you are already assigned to 2 open issues. Please complete those before taking on new ones (limit is 2).

[udaycodespace]

/assign

Let's get your two PRs currently under review completed first. Once one of them is merged, I'll assign this issue to you. Thanks!

[udaycodespace]

/assign

I've just left review comments on PRs #16 and #17. Once those review comments are addressed and one of the PRs is completed (merged or closed), I'll assign this issue. Thanks!

[Jidnyasa-P]

/assign

[github-actions]

🎉 @Jidnyasa-P has been successfully assigned to this issue. Please submit a PR within 7 days. Happy coding!

[udaycodespace]

/assign

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• A brief summary of what was implemented and any known limitations.

Providing these details upfront makes the review process much smoother for large PRs. Thanks!

[udaycodespace]

Hi @Jidnyasa-P, just checking in on this issue. Are you still working on it?

If so, could you please share a quick progress update and let me know when you expect to open the PR? Thanks!