Enrollments

• Enrollments are the core of our product line.

• Cohorts, X-Series, Redeem Codes, etc, all rely on an enrollment product being available, or having already being purchased in order to upsell.

• Enrollments will have both variants (honor / verified / prof ed) and be directly associated with a course.

• Enrollment in a specific course is a unique product in our catalog.

• Enrollments are a type of product in our catalog

• Can be purchased or upgraded to from an honor certificate

• Have specific “availability dates”

• Special refund logic for un-enrolling in courses by a certain date.

• Need special fulfillment logic

• Verified Certificates have “flexible” payment strategies (min price, suggested prices)

• Are these donations on top of the purchase price?

Enrollment Attributes

Any product type has product attributes specific to that type of product. Enrollments will have the following attributes.

Django-Oscar Concepts

The following concepts are associated with creating Enrollments in our catalog.

• Product - The main Enrollment product. This will be the top-level product for which all our enrollment variants are defined. For enrollment in the DemoX course, we would have a single product “DemoX Enrollment”. 

• Variant - This could be used to define the multiple enrollment modes available for a course. There will be a single “DemoX Enrollment” product, with variants “Honor”, “Verified”, etc.

• Category - A category is required for a product to be created. This is used for navigation purposes. I believe we may just make one blanket category “Course Enrollments”. We’ll want to have further navigation details later, such as X-Series, and subjects.

• Product Type - Associated with the Specific Product Class, which would be the “Enrollment”. Each product is associated with a class, and each of our Course Enrollments will be of the same “Enrollment” type.

X Series

Need to group courses together

• Will they need to be purchased together?

• Will this primarily be a search index?

• Do they need special landing pages?

• Is the price different? Discounted when bought together?

• Is the X-Series a product or just an attribute, grouping?

Django-Oscar Concepts

• Potentially use “Categories” and “Ranges”.

• Ranges can be used for Offers, which may be useful for discounting X-Series later on.

• Categories are indexed for search, and are essentially groupings of products

• A Category will always be created, where as a Range may include a Category if we choose to create offers / discounts for X-Series courses.