move exams to edx.org

[odlbot]

Instead of offering proctored exams through Pearson Vue, we will offer virtual proctored exams on edx.org.

The course team will create 6 exam "courses" on edX for each exam run, one for each course.

After the course ends, the course team will collect a list of all learners who have passed (now or in the past) and manually enroll them in the appropriate exam course(s).

Learners will need to "pay" and verify their identification for the exam course.

We will provide learners with an coupon code for each exam course they plan to take. The specifics of how we will distribute edx coupon codes are TBD.

Epic issues:

• [x] #4636 Review learner dashboard and identify text changes
• [x] create model for edX coupons
• [x] add link to edX exam (on the exam_run model or on the course_run model?)
• [x] ingest edX coupons (management command?)
• [x] Update dashboard to offer authorized learners an edX coupon for each exam
• [x] stop sending exam authorizations to Pearson
• [x] stop sending users' profiles to Pearson
• [x] #4646 Purchase only buys one exam attempt
• [ ] Create BI report of exam authorizations (can wait until course ends)
• [x] Update query/process for verifying count of certificates and program certificates (could be part of the mgmt command for importing grades)
• [x] #4668 Update/create proctored exam grade script to work with grades exported from edX
• [x] Import the grades (after the grades have been adjusted by DEDP)
• [x] confirm count of certificates with DEDP
• [x] release final grades
• [ ] #4862 update grades README

[annagav]

@pdpinch it seems to me that exams can be created on edx for a course, I didn't find any equivalent for exam authorization or the ability to add students to an exam. We could continue authorizing users for exams on our end based on the a passing score for a course run.

As for the coupon codes we could add that information to the exam card when the user has paid for the exam.

ProctoredExamStudentAttempt is the object that describes users attempt to take an exam. We can query the existing exams for a course by the edx_course_key through /edx_proctoring/v1/proctored_exam/exam/course_id/{course_id}, or learn about the status of a particular exam attempt /edx_proctoring/v1/proctored_exam/attempt/course_id/{course_id}. This contains information about the status of exam attempt and the review status (as 'completed', 'started', etc). There is no indication of a numerical grade for the exam.

This is what I have found so far, let me know if you have any more insights on how the course team is managing the exams. Have they done any test examinations?

[annagav]

@pdpinch The number of authorizations for 1T2020 exams is 6321. The number of exams taken is 785. And number of exam grades: 676.

[annagav]

The email subject and body for notifying about a FinancialAid status update. Accepted statuses APPROVED and REJECTED have the same email is sent for both statuses:

"Dear {first_name}, After reviewing your income documentation, the {program_name} MicroMasters team has determined that your personalized course price is {price}. You can pay for MicroMasters courses through the MIT MicroMasters portal (https://micromasters.mit.edu/dashboard). All coursework will be conducted on edx.org. Thank you, The {program_name} MicroMasters team"

For status PENDING_MANUAL_APPROVAL (documents have been received) the email body is as follows:

"We have received your documents verifying your income. We will review them as soon as possible, after which we will send an e-mail confirming your personalized course price. We encourage you to enroll now and pay later, when a decision has been reached."

[annagav]

The are only two states for the exam card. One where there is an existing exam run and one where there are no schedulable exam runs:

Most other states and messages about exam runs are communicates in the course row:

[pdpinch]

For the exam card, there's also this state:

Which reminds me that we should remove the code that sends profiles to Pearson.

[pdpinch]

@annagav I added a bunch of issues for this epic. Can you take a look and let me know if they make sense, and if anything is missing (as far as you know now)?

[pdpinch]

Added a new issue to this epic: #4646 Purchase only buys one exam attempt

[pdpinch]

I added a checkbox for stopping the exam authorizations being sent to Pearson. And I crossed off a checkbox about creating a BI report of authorizations because it's no longer necessary for getting learners into the exam courses.