Status: Maintenance
Responsibilities
The Course Experience directory contains a Django application that provides the Course Home page (or course landing page), and various resources in support of the landing experience.
Direction: Deprecate
This will be replaced eventually by new UI in the form of Microfrontends. New functionality should not be added here.
Glossary
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The course experience consists of a number of views:
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Course Home
The course home page is the landing page for the course. It presents the learner with information necessary to understand the purpose of the course, its content, and its milestones. It includes a "Course Tools" section that provides links to other tools associated with the course. For example, it includes tools such as reviews, updates and bookmarks.
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Welcome Message
The welcome message is a fragment view which is typically shown on the course home page. It provides the user with a description of the course and helps them to understand its requirements.
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Course Outline
The course outline is a fragment view which shows an outline of the content of the course.
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Course Dates
The course dates fragment is a view which shows users important dates for the course, such as the start and end dates.
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Course Sock
The course sock is a fragment view which is typically shown just above the footer of course pages (hence the name). The default implementation presents the users with a message encouraging them to purchase a verified certificate.
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Course Updates
The course updates page shows the user all of the course team's updates in a scrolling list. The updates page is also provided as a course tool.
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Course Reviews
This page shows the user reviews of the course from an external provider. The default provider is CourseTalk. The reviews page is also provided as a course tool.
A number of the features in the course experience are controlled via Waffle flags. For documentation, see Waffle flag definitions.