Add mode and is_active to CourseEnrollment, shift enrollment logic to model

[ormsbee]

Add a mode field to allow us to support different kinds of enrollments (all current enrollments are honor code enrollments). Also add an is_active flag. This will let us do things like have an approval step before a CourseEnrollment is activated, as well as track what courses a person used to be signed up for, in case that information is necessary to determine their eligibility for other courses.

There's actually a lot more that I'd eventually like to move into CourseEnrollment (knowledge of courses, permissions, CourseEnrollmentAllowed, etc.) But shifting enroll/unenroll/is_enrolled was good enough for what I needed in the short term goal of supporting is_active as the toggle.

@dianakhuang: I still need to add some docs for this and test the migration on fake prod before I can merge this, but the code should be reviewable at this point.

@gwprice, @kevinchugh: Please review the forums code?

@sefk, @jbau: Just wanted to give you a heads up on this one.

[dianakhuang]

This comment trails off and seems a little confusing. I think it makes sense to say something like "then the student is not considered to be enrolled in the course"

Also, the last sentence trails off.

[dianakhuang]

I think this looks good otherwise. We should also make sure Stanford is up to date on these changes.

[ormsbee]

Squashed and rebased.

[dianakhuang]

Btw, this has a conflict and can't be merged right now (probably in the CHANGELOG file)

[kevinchugh]

Do you want two consecutive ifs rather than nested ones? It will likely never matter, but semantically, do you want to make one branch if you're a staff and another if you're a student. The edge case is a staff who unregisters for a course but should still have staff access. I guess the question is do you only want to check the active flag for non-staff, more as a policy question?

[ormsbee]

Is there a reason why a staff member should continue to have Moderator privileges for a course that they are no longer enrolled in?

[kevinchugh]

i was more concerned about the corollary where this essentially requires all moderators to be enrolled. Does every PM and every TA have to be enrolled explicitly to have rights in the forums? How about the instructor? I don't know the answer to that but if the answer is no, then we'll inadvertently remove all course roles for staff by virtue of their not being enrolled.

[ormsbee]

Ah. I had forgotten just how divorced forum user privileges are from everything else in our system. @jimabramson: What's the desired behavior here? Remove student roles only?

[ichuang]

It is important for researchers studying course histories to know what roles a student had in the forum, during the course, eg community TA or other.

[ormsbee]

Ok, how about this? I'll comment this check out, I'll comment out the tests that depend on it, and the forum team can implement whatever the right thing is at a later date. This will make the situation no worse than before the merge (since it didn't take any action back then on unenrollment either).

[jbau]

@ormsbee @dianakhuang
Just to ask a summary question: basically the gist of these changes (32 files) is that now, for CourseEnrollment, existence now no longer denotes enrollment. Instead

1. (is_active, mode ) = (True, "honor") indicates enrollment
2. (is_active, mode) = (False, *) indicates non-enrollment
3. (is_active, mode) = (True, "^honor") should not be used.

correct?

[jbau]

oh, and no data migration is necessary because is_active defaults to true and mode defaults to "honor", correct?

[ormsbee]

@jbau
Correct, existence no longer denotes enrollment. Nos. 1 and 2 are true, but a major point of this transition is to encourage people to useCourseEnrollment.is_enrolled(user, course_id) instead. It's quite possible that the internal representation of what it means to be enrolled will change again, say to a status with intermediate states like "pending" or some such.

In regards to item 3, we'll be adding different types shortly, in the next week or so.

[ormsbee]

And yes, no data migration necessary because of the defaults. The migration is fast enough to run on our live prod instance without trouble.

[stroilova]

Re: .is_enrolled()

We sometimes run SQL scripts to determine # enrolled. Some PMs also have
access to a wwc database replica and to the following query list:
(see, e.g.
https://edx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7471154)

What is the best thing to do going forward to determine #Enrolled from the
database directly? Should we just update the query scripts according to
your documentation, or is there an API that would be queried? Thank you.

@rocha @jtauber @dave

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And yes, no data migration necessary because of the defaults. The defaults
also make the migration fast enough to run on our prod instance without
locking the table.

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[ormsbee]

@stroilova: I'd like edx-platform code to use the CourseEnrollment model, but you folks should still use SQL in the aggregate queries. I updated the relevant SQL query on the linked page. Thank you.

[stroilova]

Just saw that, thank you!

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@stroilova https://github.com/stroilova: I'd like edx-platform code to
use the CourseEnrollment model, but you folks should still use SQL in the
aggregate queries. I updated the relevant SQL query on the linked page.
Thank you.

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[rocha]

@stroilova we should discourage PMs from running that kind of query on the database since the enrollment number is accessible from the analytics tab on the instructor panel.

However, if you still need the SQL query, it something like this:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT user_id) AS students FROM student_courseenrollment WHERE course_id=(course_id) AND is_active !=0;

[jbau]

@ormsbee Yes, I'm planning on using the methods. Was just asking about the representation to make sure I understood it.

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@jbau
Correct, existence no longer denotes enrollment. Nos. 1 and 2 are true, but a major point of this transition is to encourage people to useCourseEnrollment.is_enrolled(user, course_id) instead. It's quite possible that the internal representation of what it means to be enrolled will change again, say to a status with intermediate states like "pending" or some such.

In regards to item 3, we'll be adding different types shortly, in the next week or so.

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