Tutor Contrib Delete Course

Standalone Open edX plugin for admin-only course deletion from Studio.

Structure

• backend/ Django app (delete_course_plugin) exposing API + admin model
• frontend/ reusable Authoring MFE widget package (@openedx/frontend-component-delete-course)
• tutor/ Tutor plugin that injects backend/frontend into Open edX and Authoring MFE builds

Backend API

POST /delete_course_plugin/v1/courses/<course_key>/delete/

Body:

{
  "reason": "optional"
}

Admin model

• DeletedCourseRecord
• Admin label: Deleted course records

Installation

Install the Tutor plugin package:

pip install tutor-contrib-delete-course

Enable plugin:

tutor plugins enable delete-course

Rebuild images so backend + authoring frontend package are injected:

tutor images build openedx mfe

Apply migrations in CMS:

tutor local run cms ./manage.py cms migrate delete_course_plugin

Restart services:

tutor local restart cms lms mfe

Development

For local development from this repo root:

git clone git@github.com:Abstract-Tech/tutor-contrib-delete-course.git
cd tutor-contrib-delete-course
pip install -e .
tutor plugins enable delete-course
tutor images build openedx-dev mfe
tutor mounts add cms:/path/to/tutor-contrib-delete-course/backend:/openedx/delete-course-plugin-backend

Local mounted MFE

If you are using a locally mounted mfe/frontend-app-authoring, local env.config.jsx can still be used for dev. For staging/production, use the Tutor plugin integration in tutor/ instead of manual env config edits.

TODO

• Add a soft-delete/archive backup flow for deleted courses so staff/admin can restore a deleted course within a configurable retention window (for example, 30 days), after which the course is permanently deleted.