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This PR addresses the data layer aspect of a solution intended for issue #895 Course Filtering. The actual dropdown functionality will come in a future PR.
We can make it just one PR, I just figured it would be easier to review this way. Let me know.

What I did

  • Added a CourseInstructorSemesterGrade model that stores grade distributions per course, instructor and semester. It mirrors the fields and patterns of CourseInstructorGrade, plus a semester foreign key.
  • Added migration 0030_courseinstructorsemestergrade.
  • Updated load_grades.py to populate the new table alongside the existing two:
    • Reads each row's Term Desc and looks up the matching Semester (cached once per run).
    • Raises a ValueError if a term has no Semester row in the database.
    • ALL_DANGEROUS now clears the new table as well.
    • clean() renames TermDesc to Term Desc, since 2021_spring.csv uses that header.
  • CourseGrade and CourseInstructorGrade are loaded the same way as before. Nothing reads the new table yet.

Testing

  • Updated the three load_grades test classes in tests/test_commands.py. They now create the semesters the test CSVs reference and check the new table's row count, course/instructor/semester, enrollment totals, grade distribution and average.
  • Ran the migration and load_grades ALL_DANGEROUS locally against all 55 grade CSVs:
    • 111,358 CourseInstructorSemesterGrade rows vs. 39,982 CourseInstructorGrade rows
    • Total enrollment is identical across both tables (3,312,440)

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  • New Features
    • Grade summaries can now be associated with a specific semester, including course and instructor averages, grade distributions, and enrollment totals.
  • Improvements
    • Grade imports now require each row’s term to match a semester already in the system. If no matching semester exists, the import stops and indicates that the semester must be added.
    • The standard single-semester import path for instructor grade summaries is not yet available.

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The change adds a course–instructor–semester grade model and updates load_grades to resolve input terms, accumulate semester-specific grades, and create those aggregates. Tests cover the new records, their associations, grade distributions, and missing grade data.

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Semester grade aggregates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Semester grade model
tcf_website/models/models.py, tcf_website/migrations/0030_courseinstructorsemestergrade.py, tcf_website/models/__init__.py
Adds and exports CourseInstructorSemesterGrade, with grade counts, enrollment, nullable course, instructor, and semester links, and a composite index.
Semester-aware grade loading
tcf_website/management/commands/load_grades.py, tcf_website/tests/test_commands.py
The loader maps each input term to a database semester and raises ValueError if no match exists. It accumulates and bulk-creates semester-specific aggregates, clears them in ALL_DANGEROUS mode, and tests their associations and grade data. The single-semester branch does not implement semester-specific aggregate loading.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GradeCSV
  participant Command
  participant Semester
  participant CourseInstructorSemesterGrade
  GradeCSV->>Command: Provide row with term
  Command->>Semester: Resolve year and season
  Semester-->>Command: Return matching semester ID
  Command->>Command: Accumulate course, instructor, and semester grades
  Command->>CourseInstructorSemesterGrade: Bulk-create semester aggregates
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7308b

The new semester-specific grade table and loader work as described. However, a full reload now stops partway through if any CSV row refers to a semester that is not in the database. Because the existing grade data has already been deleted at that point, the site would show no grade data until an operator fixes the semester data and reruns the load. Make the reload validate its input first, or make it atomic, before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7308b

The change remains within grade ingestion, with no identified new public read path. However, a full reload can now reject a missing semester after deleting all grade aggregates, and the three tables are not published atomically. This creates a database-wide grade-data recovery risk. Production command-access controls and rollout safeguards remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new semester prerequisite is checked only after ALL_DANGEROUS deletes all three aggregate tables. A missing semester therefore aborts before replacement grades are written, leaving existing grade readers without their data. The new third insert also permits publication of the old aggregates without the semester aggregates if that stage fails. Delete-before-load and separate writes existed at the base; this PR adds failure conditions and another dependent store without rollback or atomic publication.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A destructive invocation affects all three grade-aggregate tables in the database selected by the management-command environment, not only one course or semester. Exploiting that authority requires command execution or control over imported files consumed by an authorized execution; the PR does not establish a new remote invocation path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Documented invocation is through a local container command or production ECS command execution. CSV term values must match cached database semester identities before contributing to aggregates. This validates the association but does not establish deployment authorization: the principals permitted to execute production commands were not verified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The new semester-only persistence can fail after the original two stores have been written and their caches invalidated. Existing course and instructor GPA methods still read the original aggregate tables, so consistency and recovery must account for those live dependencies rather than treating the new table as isolated.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Validate every input term and schema prerequisite before destructive changes. Publish the three aggregate stores transactionally or through staged replacement, and define serialized, idempotent retry behavior so recovery cannot duplicate already committed data.
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if file[0] not in (".", "~") and ".csv" in file:
self.load_semester_file(file)
else:
# TODO: Implement semester-specific loading logic for CourseInstructorSemesterGrade

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We only load all semesters at once so this isn't necessary (and the logic would be the same)

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We currently don't have the data for certain January / Summer sessions, so the loading would fail as currently written. Working on scraping that now.

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We currently don't have the data for certain January / Summer sessions, so the loading would fail as currently written. Working on scraping that now.

#1277 resolved this.

term_year, term_season = row["Term Desc"].split()
semester_id = self.semesters.get((int(term_year), term_season.upper()))
if semester_id is None:
raise ValueError(

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The script should not completely stop mid-load if a grade data csv does not have corresponding course data from that semester

@Adrian-E-V Adrian-E-V changed the title 895 filter course 895 filter course (data layer) Oct 5, 2026
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# ALL_DANGEROUS removes all existing data
CourseGrade.objects.all().delete()
CourseInstructorGrade.objects.all().delete()
CourseInstructorSemesterGrade.objects.all().delete()

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep existing grades if a reload fails.

In ALL_DANGEROUS mode, these deletes complete before the command reads the CSV files. If a row has no matching Semester, the new check at Line 211 raises ValueError before load_dict_into_models runs. The command then leaves the existing grade tables empty under Django’s default autocommit behavior. Validate the files before deletion, and make the delete-and-replace operation atomic. (docs.djangoproject.com)

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Review comment at @tcf_website/management/commands/load_grades.py at line 134:
Update the ALL_DANGEROUS flow in the command’s handle method so it validates the
CSV files before deleting existing grades, then performs the deletes and
replacement loads within one atomic transaction. A validation or loading failure
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