edx-name-affirmation

This library contains data model and business logic to store verified personal information for learners of the edx-platform. This library is designed to be a pluggable library to the edx-platform.

Overview

This library mainly stores various stages of a learner's verified identifying information. The prevalent example is the learner's full name. To verify the full name, the learner has to first initiate from UI that is part of the platform. Here are the steps of which the PII information, for example: full name, goes through:

1. learner requests to update the name
2. learner is brought to go through ID verification process
3. learner submit the ID verification after providing supporting evidence
4. the ID Verification reviewer approves or denies the verification
5. the library receives the verdict and updates the name record in the model accordingly

The above process can also be triggered by a Proctored exam attempt, where the exam attempt status can be the input into this library to create and update the name record's status. In this case, the learner do not have to go through ID Verification. The proctoring process always collects ID verification evidence.

For more context of the library, see context.

Dependencies

In addition to the edx-platform repository this library is installing into, the library also leverages the frontend-app-account Micro-Frontend to capture learners' attempt to update their full name.

Installing in Docker Devstack

Assuming that your devstack repo lives at ~/edx/devstack and that edx-platform lives right alongside that directory, you'll want to checkout edx-name-affirmation and have it live in ~/edx/src/edx-name-affirmation. This will make it so that you can access it inside an LMS container shell and easily make modifications for local testing.

Run make lms-shell from your devstack directory to enter a running LMS container. Once in there, you can do the following to have your devstack pointing at a local development version of edx-name-affirmation:

$ pushd /edx/src/edx-name-affirmation
$ virtualenv venv/
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ make install
$ make test  # optional, if you want to see that everything works
$ deactivate
$ pushd  # should take you back to /edx/edx-platform
$ pip uninstall -y edx_name_affirmation
$ pip install -e /edx/src/edx-name-affirmation

Alternatively, you can add ./src/edx-name-affirmation to the edx-platform private.txt of the requirements folder This way, when you are pip installing within edx-platform, you don't have to perform the above step again.

Enabling in LMS

Make sure your LMS settings have the Feature ENABLE_SPECIAL_EXAMS enabled. Check your edx-platform lms/env settings file.

Disable the plugin library

There are two ways to disable the plugin library:

• You can uninstall the library from edx-platform.
• In the setup.py, you can remove the entry_points into either LMS or CMS

Development

installation and settings

Install to the python virtualenv with help from virtualenvwrapper:

$ pip install --user virtualenvwrapper
$ mkvirtualenv nameaffirmation

For detailed instructions on virtualenvwrapper: https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Running tests

From the edx-name-affirmation repo root, run the tests with the following command:

$ make test

Running code quality check

From the edx-name-affirmation repo root, run the quality checks with the following command:

$ make quality

Package Requirements

requirements/dev.txt contains a list of package dependencies which are required for this package.

requirements/test.txt is used to install the same dependencies when running the tests for this package.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome.

Please read How To Contribute for details.

Even though they were written with edx-platform in mind, the guidelines should be followed for Open edX code in general.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email security@edx.org.

Getting Help

Have a question about this repository, or about Open edX in general? Please refer to this list of resources if you need any assistance.