how to make a course offline?? (but there is in database)

[dim kar]

I have installed the birch version of edX.

I would like to ask you how to make a course offline from the list of courses.. I mean not to be seen. It will exits to the database but it won't be shown in front of the site.

Thanks in advace!

Best Regards,

Dimosthenis

[liu...@lektorium.tv]

Hello Demosthenis,

  I think the easiest way to show/hide courses from the list is to use the Advanced Setting "Course Visibility In Catalog" (the description of possible options you can find below the setting). To make it work, you should edit your server settings (at least cms.env.json and lms.env.json) and set key

COURSE_CATALOG_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION to 'can_see_in_catalog' or 'can_see_about_page' (the default is 'see_exists').

Hope that helps,

Liubov

вторник, 4 августа 2015 г., 21:31:39 UTC+3 пользователь dim kar написал:

[Chris Dodge]

Yes, this is correct and is how we manage the visibility of courses on one of our sites. Let me know if you have any particular questions - I'm the author of those course visibility settings.

- Chris

[dim kar]

Hello again,

I have installed edX birch edition but into the path /edx/app/edxapp/ I saw the 2 files lms.env.json and cms.env.json but I counld not find the set key 

COURSE_CATALOG_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION. Is this the correct name of the value, please help me to find it.

I explain you again that I don't want to delete the course from database but to hide from the "Find Courses" page. I would like not to see in lms but only on Studio..

Thanks in advance,

[Chris Dodge]

Yes, this will hide visibility from the home page/find courses pages but not delete the course.

Just add those keys in the lms.env.json file if they are not present and restart services. Then in Studio in Advanced Settings, you will see a field called "

Course Visibility In Catalog

"

Set that value to what visibility restrictions you'd like to apply. If you want to hide from catalog but let people see the About page in order to allow for enrollments, set it to "about". If you don't want either to appear in catalog *and* you don't want about page to be visible, set it to "none"

Hope that helps

[dim kar]

I would like to inform you that the set key COURSE_CATALOG_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION is in the below file: 

edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/lms/envs/common.py (because I found it there!)

As you said we need to change the value from 'see_exists' to 'see_in_catalog'

Thanks for the help, because with your help I know what change to do. 

Best Regards,

Dimosthenis

Τη Τρίτη, 4 Αυγούστου 2015 - 9:31:39 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης dim kar έγραψε:

[Chris Dodge]

You can change it in common.py, but I'd recommend simply adding in your lms.env.json (and restart services)

"COURSE_CATALOG_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION": "see_in_catalog"

If you change code in common.py it might make this more difficult when you want to rebase against a new release of Open edX

[dim kar]

I have inserted the command line:

"COURSE_CATALOG_VISIBILITY_PERMISSION": "see_in_catalog"

into edx/app/edxapp/lms.envs.json file but when I restart services using the command

sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart edxapp: & sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart edxapp_worker:

or 

sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart all 

I have the below error:

dimos@dimos-H61M-D2-B3:/edx/app/edxapp$ sudo /edx/bin/supervisorctl restart all

xqueue_consumer: stopped

forum: stopped

notifier-celery-workers: stopped

analytics_api: stopped

certs: stopped

edx_notes_api: stopped

notifier-scheduler: stopped

xqueue: stopped

edxapp:lms: stopped

edxapp:cms: stopped

edxapp_worker:cms_low_3: stopped

edxapp_worker:lms_high_mem_2: stopped

edxapp_worker:lms_default_3: stopped

edxapp_worker:cms_high_1: stopped

edxapp_worker:lms_low_1: stopped

edxapp_worker:cms_default_4: stopped

edxapp_worker:lms_high_4: stopped

insights: stopped

xqueue_consumer: started

forum: started

analytics_api: started

certs: started

edx_notes_api: started

xqueue: started

edxapp:lms: ERROR (abnormal termination)

edxapp:cms: started

edxapp_worker:cms_low_3: started

edxapp_worker:lms_high_mem_2: started

edxapp_worker:lms_default_3: ERROR (abnormal termination)

edxapp_worker:cms_high_1: started

edxapp_worker:lms_low_1: ERROR (abnormal termination)

How could I solve this issue?

Thanks in advance again!

Best Regards,

Dimosthenis 

Τη Τρίτη, 4 Αυγούστου 2015 - 9:31:39 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης dim kar έγραψε:

[Chris Dodge]

My guess is that your lms.env.json file is not well formatted JSON. check the following:

Are you using double quotes for your strings?

Are you properly using commas to separate key/value pairs? (I hit this one from time to time myself)

- Chris

[Adms]

Hi, 

I am working on dogwood. Moreover, I cannot see any content on student's dashboard. 

I tried this "see_in_catalog," "see_above" as well, but I cannot solve the problem.

-Adam

[rga...@4crew.es]

Chris,

I added the key to the json files you said and when I restart the services I get an error 500 in the dashboard (some other pages work as usual).

Then I removed the key from the lms.env.json file and the error disappeared. But the courses I wanted to hide are still there, visible (and I've changed to "none" the course visibility in catalog at advanced settings).

What's going on? Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

[Vijaya lakshmi T.G.]

Along with Catalog Visibility you should also set the end date as previous date .This way the course will be present in DB but will not be visible to the Learners