def courseAddAnnouncement(self, ajaxData):
"""Add an announcement to a course"""
form = json.loads(ajaxData)
if not RoleHelper.current_user_has_role(form['courseid'], 'instructor,ta'):
ctx = {'error': 'Only instructors and TAs are allowed to use this feature'}
return whiteboard.template.render('error.html', context_dict = ctx)
AnnouncementHelper.add_announcement(form['courseid'], cherrypy.session['username'], form['content'])
cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/json'
return json.dumps({'status': 'success', 'redirect_url': '/whiteboard/course/%s/' % form['courseid']})
def courseMain(self, courseid):
"""Serves main page for a course"""
ctx = {}
ctx['course'] = CourseHelper.fetch_course(courseid)
if ctx['course'] == None:
errorctx = {'error': 'The specified course (ID %s) does not exist' % courseid}
return whiteboard.template.render('error.html', context_dict=errorctx)
ctx['announcements'] = AnnouncementHelper.fetch_announcements_for_course(courseid)
return whiteboard.template.render('course.html', context_dict=ctx)
