# functions to glue school database system into Lon-CAPA for # automated enrollment # $Id: localenroll.pm,v 1.13 2006/02/07 16:36:10 albertel Exp $ # # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees # # This file is part of the LearningOnline Network with CAPA (LON-CAPA). # # LON-CAPA is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # LON-CAPA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with LON-CAPA; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # /home/httpd/html/adm/gpl.txt # # http://www.lon-capa.org/ # package localenroll; use strict; ################################ # sub run # set this to return 1 if you want the auto enrollment to run ################################ sub run() { my $dom = shift; return 0; } ################################ # sub fetch_enrollment # # connects to the institutional classlist data source, # reads classlist data and stores in an XML file # in /home/httpd/perl/tmp/ # # classlist files are named as follows: # # DOMAIN_COURSE_INSTITUTIONALCODE_classlist.xml # # e.g., msu_43551dedcd43febmsul1_fs03nop590001_classlist.xml # where DOMAIN = msu COURSE = 43551dedcd43febmsul1 # INSTITUTIONALCODE = fs03nop590001 # (MSU's course naming scheme - fs03 = Fall semester 2003, nop = # department name, 590 = course number, 001 = section number.) # # fetch_enrollment requires three arguments - # $dom - DOMAIN e.g., msu # $affiliatesref - a reference to a hash of arrays that contains LON-CAPA # courses that are to be updated as keys, and institutional coursecodes # contributing enrollment to that LON-CAPA course as elements in each array. # $replyref - a reference to a hash that contains LON-CAPA courses # that are to be updated as keys, and the total enrollment count in all # affiliated sections, as determined from institutional data as hash elements. # # As an example, if fetch_enrollment is called to retrieve institutional # classlists for a single LON-CAPA course - 43551dedcd43febmsul1 which # corresponds to fs03nop590, sections 001, 601 and 602 , and the course # also accommodates enrollment from a crosslisted course in the ost # department - fs03ost580002: # # the affiliatesref would be a reference to %affiliates which would be: # # @{$affiliates{'43551dedcd43febmsul1'}} = # ("fs03nop590001","fs03nop590601","fs03nop590602","fs03ost580002"); # # fetch_enrollment would create four files in /home/httpd/perl/tmp/. # msu_43551dedcd43febmsul1_fs03nop590001_classlist.xml # msu_43551dedcd43febmsul1_fs03nop590601_classlist.xml # msu_43551dedcd43febmsul1_fs03nop590602_classlist.xml # msu_43551dedcd43febmsul1_fs03ost580002_classlist.xml # # In each file, student data would be stored in the following format # # # MSU.EDU # krb4 # smith@msu.edu # # John # II # fs03nop590001 # Smith # D # # A12345678 # # # with the following at the top of the file # # # # # (all comment - #s removed) # # and a closing: # # # The and the are the activation date and expiration date # for this student's role. If they are absent, then the default access start and # default access end dates are used. The default access dates can be set when # the course is created, and can be modified using the Automated Enrollment # Manager, or via the 'Upload a class list','Enroll a single student' or # 'Modify student data' utilities in the Enrollment Manager, by checking the # 'make these dates the default for future enrollment' checkbox. If no default # dates have been set, then the tudent role will be active immediately, and will # remain active until the role is explicitly expired using ENRL -> Drop students. # If dates are to included in the XML file, they should be in the format # YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM:SS (: separators required). # # If there were 10 students in fs03nop590001, 5 students in fs03nop59o601, # 8 students in fs03nop590602, and 2 students in fs03ost580002, # then $$reply{'43551dedcd43febmsul1'} = 25 # # The purpose of the %reply hash is to detect cases where the institutional # enrollment is 0 (most likely due to a problem with the data source). # In such a case, the LON-CAPA course roster is left unchanged (i.e., no # students are expired, even if automated drops is enabled. # # fetch_enrollment should return a 0 or 1, depending on whether a connection # could be established to the institutional data source. # 0 is returned if no connection could be made. # 1 is returned if connection was successful # # A return of 1 is required for the calling modules to perform LON-CAPA # roster changes based on the contents of the XML classlist file(s), e,g,, # msu_43551dedcd43febmsul1_fs03nop590001_classlist.xml # # XML classlist files are temporary. They are deleted after the enrollment # update process in the calling module is complete. # ################################ sub fetch_enrollment { my ($dom,$affiliatesref,$replyref) = @_; foreach my $crs (sort keys %{$affiliatesref}) { $$replyref{$crs} = 0; } my $okflag = 0; return $okflag; } ############################### # sub get_sections # # This is called by the Automated Enrollment Manager interface # (lonpopulate.pm) to create an array of valid sections for # a specific institutional coursecode. # e.g., for MSU coursecode: fs03nop590 # ("001","601","602") would be returned # # If the array returned contains at least one element, then # the interface offerred to the course coordinator, lists # official sections and provides a checkbox to use to # select enrollment in the LON-CAPA course from each official section. # # get_sections takes two arguments - (a) the institutional coursecode # (in the MSU case this is a concatenation of semester code, department # and course number), and (b) the LON-CAPA domain that contains the course. # # If there is no access to official course sections at your institution, # then an empty array is returned, and the Automated Enrollment Manager # interface will allow the course coordinator to enter section numbers # in text boxes. # ############################### sub get_sections { my ($coursecode,$dom) = @_; my @secs = (); return @secs; } ############################### # sub new_course # # This is called by loncreatecourse.pm and # lonpopulate.pm to record that fact that a new course section # has been added to LON-CAPA that requires access to institutional data # At MSU, this is required, as institutional classlists can only made # available to faculty who are officially assigned to a course. # # The new_course subroutine is used to check that the course owner # of the LON-CAPA course is permitted to access the institutional # classlist for any course sections and crosslisted classes that # the course coordinator wishes to have affiliated with the course. # # If access is permitted, then 'ok' is returned. # The course section or crosslisted course will only be added to the list of # affiliates if 'ok' is returned. # # new_course takes three arguments - # (a) the institutional courseID (in the MSU case this is a concatenation of # semester code, department code, course number, and section number # e.g., fs03nop590001). # (b) the course owner. This is the LON-CAPA username of the course coordinator # assigned to the course when it is first created. # (c) the LON-CAPA domain that contains the course # ################################# sub new_course { my ($course_id,$owner,$dom) = @_; my $outcome = 'ok'; return $outcome; } ############################### # sub validate_courseID # # This is called whenever a new course section or crosslisted course # is being affiliated with a LON-CAPA course (i.e., by loncreatecourse.pm # and the Automated Enrollment Manager in lonpopulate.pm). # A check is made that the courseID that the course coordinator wishes # to affiliate with the course is valid according to the institutional # schedule of official classes # # A valid courseID is confirmed by returning 'ok' # # validate_courseID takes two arguments - # (a) the institutional courseID (in the MSU case this is a concatenation of # semester code, department code, course number, and section number # e.g., fs03nop590001). # (b) the LON-CAPA domain that contains the course # ############################### sub validate_courseID { my ($course_id,$dom) = @_; my $outcome = 'ok'; return $outcome; } ############################### # sub create_password # # This is called when the authentication method set for the automated # enrollment process when enrolling new users in the domain is "localauth". # This could be signalled for the specific user by the value of localauth # for the tag from the classlist.xml files, or if this is blank, # the default authtype, set by the domain coordinator when creating the course # with loncreatecourse.pm. # # create_password takes three arguments - # (a) $authparam - the value of from the classlist.xml files, # or if this blank, the default autharg, set by the domain coordinator when # creating the course with loncreatecourse.pm # (b) $dom - the domain of the new user. # (c) $username - the username of the new user (currently not actually used) # # Four values are returned: # (a) the value of $authparam - which might have been changed # (b) a flag to indicate whether a password had been created # 0 means no password created # 1 means password created. In this case the calling module - Enrollment.pm # will send the LON-CAPA username and password to the new user's e-mail # (if one was provided), or to the course owner (if one was not provided and # the new user was created by the automated process), or to the active # course coordinator (if the new user was created using the 'update roster # now' interface included in the Automated Enrollment Manager). # (c) a flag to indicate that the authentication method is correct - 'ok'. # If $authchk is not set to 'ok' then account creation and enrollment of the # new user will not occur. # (d) if a password was created it can be sent along. This is the password # which will be included in the e-mail sent to the new user, or made available # to the course owner/course coordinator if no e-mail address is provided. If # you do not wish to send a password, but want to give instructions on obtaining # one, you could set $newpasswd as those instructions. (e.g., # $newpasswd = '(Please visit room 212, ACNS Bldg. to obtain your password)'; # The value of $newpasswd is NOT written in the user's LON-CAPA passwd file in # /home/httpd/lonUsers/$dom/a/b/c/abcuser/passwd, which in the case of a user # employing localauth will contain 'localauth:$authparam'. If you need to include # a parameter in the user's passwd file, you should return it as $authparam, # i.e., the first of the variables returned by create_password(). ############################### sub create_password { my ($authparam,$dom,$username) = @_; my $authchk = 'ok'; my $newpasswd = ''; my $create_passwd = 0; return ($authparam,$create_passwd,$authchk,$newpasswd); } ############################### # sub instcode_format # # Split coursecodes into constituent parts. # e.g., INSTITUTIONALCODE = fs03nop590, LON-CAPA COURSEID: 43551dedcd43febmsul1 # (MSU's course naming scheme - fs03 = Fall semester 2003, nop = # department name, 590 = course number) # # Incoming data: # $dom (domain) # $$instcodes{'43551dedcd43febmsul1'} = 'Title of course' (hash of courseIDs) # # fs03nop590 would be split as follows # @{$codetitles} = ("year","semester","department","number") # $$codes{{'year'} = '2003' # $$codes{'semester'} = 'Fall' # $$codes{'department'} = 'nop' # $$codes{'number'} = '590' # # requires six arguments: # domain ($dom) # reference to hash of institutional course IDs ($instcodes) # reference to hash of codes ($codes) # reference to array of titles ($codetitles) # reference to hash of abbreviations used in categories # reference to hash of arrays specifying sort order used in category titles # # e.g., %{$$cat_titles{'Semester'}} = ( # fs => 'Fall', # ss => 'Spring', # us => 'Summer'); # # e.g., @{$$cat_order{'Semester'}} = ('ss','us','fs'); # returns 1 parameter: 'ok' if no processing errors. ############################### sub instcode_format () { my ($dom,$instcodes,$codes,$codetitles,$cat_titles,$cat_order) = @_; my $outcome = 'ok'; return $outcome; } ############################### # sub institutional_photos # # Called when automated enrollment manager is used to update student photos. # # Incoming data: six arguments # (a) $dom (domain) # (b) $crs (LONCAPA course number) # (c) $affiliates: a reference to a hash with the keys set to the # institutional course IDs for the course. # (d) $result: a reference to a hash which will return usernames # of students (& separated) in following categories (the keys): # new, update, missing, same, deleted, noid, nouser. The list # includes those students for whom the result of the modification # process was either addition of a new photo. update of an # existing photo, photo was found to be missing from institution's # data store, photo used is same as before, or photo was # deleted from storage on LON-CAPA server housing student's # information, no student ID was available. # (e) $action: the type of action needed. (e.g., update, delete); # (f) $students: a reference to a hash with the keys set to student # usernames and domains in the form username:domain, and values set # to the studentID, if action is required for specific students. # # returns 1 parameter: 'ok' if no processing errors. # other course or student specific values can be stored as values # in the appropriate referenced hashes. ############################### sub institutional_photos { my ($dom,$crs,$affiliates,$result,$action,$students) = @_; my $outcome = 'ok'; return $outcome; } ############################### # sub photo_permission # # Incoming data: three arguments # (a) $dom (domain) # (b) $perm_reqd: a reference to a a scalar that is either 'yes' # if a course owner must indicate acceptance of conditions of use, # 'no' otherwise. # (c) $conditions: the text of the conditions of use. # # returns 1 parameter: 'ok' if no processing errors. # $$perm_reqd is set to 'yes' or 'no' # $$agreement is set to conditions of use - plain text string # which will be displayed in a textarea in a web form. ############################### sub photo_permission { my ($dom,$perm_reqd,$conditions) = @_; $$perm_reqd = 'no'; $$conditions = ''; my $outcome = 'ok'; return $outcome; } ############################### # sub manager_photo_update # # Incoming data: one argument # (a) $dom (domain) # # returns 2 parameters: update (0 or 1), and comment. # Called by automated enrollment manager, to determine # whether "Update Student photos" button will be available, # and if so, the message (plain text string) that will be displayed # with the button. ############################### sub manager_photo_update { my ($dom) = @_; my $update = 0; my $comment = ''; return ($update,$comment); } 1;