Pluggable access control both viewing and enrolling in a course

[omar (Omar Al-Ithawi - Founder @ ZeitLabs.com)]

Thanks for the explanation @pdpinch.

I don’t think in this a good use case for the (to be contributed) Access Control Backends.

What I would do is to refactor the Enrollment API to match your needs. I usually get away with such hard-coded changes in the platform core by writing new tests and surround my new code with feature flags so it survives release upgrades. Sometimes it doesn’t survive but it breaks loudly – thanks to tests – which makes it easier to fix.

[omar (Omar Al-Ithawi - Founder @ ZeitLabs.com)]

Updates:

• We’ve released the first working version to our Staging site. Please reach out to me if you’d like to test it out: omar@appsembler.com.
• The docs are now available on Read The Docs: https://course-access-groups.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (thanks for the Open edX team for the nice cookie cutter)

[regis (Régis Behmo)]

Can I just say that I absolutely love the fact that you took the time to create great docs for this plugin? I am looking forward to a stable release that will support single site setups.

[omar (Omar Al-Ithawi - Founder @ ZeitLabs.com)]

Thanks @regis! Yes, the single-site setup is still not done yet.