How to show number of enrolled student in Course About page

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#1

Hello everyone,

In edX course About page, it can show the number of enrolled students, for example, 348, 223 already enrolled!

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I understand that edX uses a separate site for their commercial purpose. However, I would like to ask is there any way that I can achieve this on Open edX course About page.

I have checked the Open edX RESTful API but cannot find any endpoint that related to this problem.

Thanks in advance.

#2

The enrollements API answers your problems halfway.

You can try this with proper authentication to fetch all enrollments in a given course

GET /api/enrollment/v1/enrollments?course_id={course_id}

Then count the results.

OR

The only ready to use code is the same as in Instructor dashboard enrollment statistics. you can summarize it in 3 lines

from common.djangoapps.student.models import CourseEnrollment

enrollments = CourseEnrollment.objects.enrollment_counts(course_key)
total_enrollments = enrollments['total']

enrollment_counts returns a dict with enrollment statistics by course mode (audit, honor, etc) + total value. You can use the code above to get the count, then integrate it in a custom view context (course_about for example) then display the count in your template.

If you look for codeless solutions I’m afraid there isn’t any

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#3

Thank you very much for your suggestion.
I have successfully shown it on the course About page by editing lms/templates/courseware/course_about.html. The code looks like this:

<%
  # Show enrollment count on About page
  from common.djangoapps.student.models import CourseEnrollment
  enrollment_count = CourseEnrollment.objects.enrollment_counts(course.id)['total']
%>

%if enrollment_count > 1:
  <p class="number_enrolled"><span class="count">${enrollment_count}</span> ${_("already enrolled!")}</p>
%endif
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