feat: course about page markup and styles improvements

[bydawen]

Similar PR is opened to the open-release/palm branch: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/33711

There is some fixes for the course about page:

• display a course short description in course about heading-group (if necessary)
• removing duplicated pre-requisite info in right sidebar
• code formatting for the block % if get_course_about_section(request, course, "prerequisites"):

Fixes were also made to the _course_about.scss styles, to fix responsive layout of the course about header element.

Before fixes:

After fixes:

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[bydawen]

Hi! I'm contributing on behalf of Raccoongang

[farhaanbukhsh]

@mphilbrick211 I can take this as a CC review once the product review is done. :)

[mphilbrick211]

@mphilbrick211 I can take this as a CC review once the product review is done. :)

Thank you, @farhaanbukhsh!

[ali-hugo]

@bydawen Thank you for this contribution! I'll be performing the product review. A few notes/questions:

• The layout of the header looks much better! 👏
• I think the hierarchy of the organization name ("edX") and the course short description is too similar. Could they be styled differently to make the difference in hierarchy more clear?
• Could you please post a screenshot of the pre-requisite info that you removed from the sidebar? I don't see any duplication on the current About page that I have access to

Thank you.

[farhaanbukhsh]

Hey @bydawen any updates here?

[ihor-romaniuk]

Hello @ali-hugo

• regarding the organization name (“edX”), I put it in the sidebar with similar information about the course, I think that there it is more appropriate in terms of the page structure and information (screen mark #1)
• regarding prerequisites, the org course + course number was removed, but it seems that we should leave it as is. (I returned it as it was) (screen mark #2)

[ali-hugo]

Hi @ihor-romaniuk,

I think having the organisation name in the sidebar works well on desktop, but I wonder if it is too far down on the page on mobile. Perhaps the sidebar information should be moved above the "about this course" section on mobile. @jmakowski1123 Would you be happy with that from a UX perspective?

[jmakowski1123]

Hi @ihor-romaniuk,

I think having the organisation name in the sidebar works well on desktop, but I wonder if it is too far down on the page on mobile. Perhaps the sidebar information should be moved above the "about this course" section on mobile. @jmakowski1123 Would you be happy with that from a UX perspective?

Tagging @marcotuts to make the call about mobile UI.

[mphilbrick211]

Hi @ihor-romaniuk, I think having the organisation name in the sidebar works well on desktop, but I wonder if it is too far down on the page on mobile. Perhaps the sidebar information should be moved above the "about this course" section on mobile. @jmakowski1123 Would you be happy with that from a UX perspective?

Tagging @marcotuts to make the call about mobile UI.

Hi @marcotuts! Friendly follow-up on this.

[marcotuts]

My suggestion here is to put more space betweeen the org and the description, 20px perhaps minimum.

Another suggestion is to put the org above the title, which echoed the design of many other course cards with org (in small text) then course title (larger text) then fellow that description or subtitle like content .

Hopefully this helps!

[ihor-romaniuk]

@marcotuts, per your recommendations, I moved the organization name above the course title to match the style of the course cards.

[ihor-romaniuk]

Backport to Redwood: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/34892

[marcotuts]

update: Product review is done here, this can move to the next step thanks!

[idegtiarov]

@farhaanbukhsh Hey, the product review has been passed! Will you be able to do a tech review?

[idegtiarov]

@ihor-romaniuk please rebase your branch

[ihor-romaniuk]

The branch is up-to-date.

[mphilbrick211]

@idegtiarov @ihor-romaniuk will you also be able to take of the backports? https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/34892 https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/pull/33791

[ihor-romaniuk]

@mphilbrick211 All PRs were updated and ready for review or merge. Thanks.

[farhaanbukhsh]

Thanks @ihor-romaniuk I will have a look at it early next week :)

[ihor-romaniuk]

@farhaanbukhsh I believe everything is ready for the final review and merging of this pull request. Could we proceed with that?

[farhaanbukhsh]

@ihor-romaniuk sure I will try to get this merged today or tomorrow :)

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