Signing up in pairs

[semidirect]

Especially when we start having pair assignments, it will be useful for people to be able to sign up for office hours as pairs (so that they at least both get email notifications, or even better so that they both see the request on the website). This was less likely to be an issue in the past because pairs were likely to be working in the same place anyway.

[borjasotomayor]

Fortunately, we added this to the database model last year in anticipation of this feature:

cs121-officehours-webapp/officehours/models.py

Line 178 in 27a1afa

additional_students = models.ManyToManyField(User, related_name="additional_requests", blank=True)

I suspect we can have a simple interface ready before the first pairs PA, where they can simply enter the CNetID of the other student when making a request and, at the very least, that other student will also receive e-mail notifications about the requests. As a further step, we can make the request appear on the other student's interface, and prevent them from making a simultaneous request (to avoid students from trying to double their chances of getting an office hour slot by submitting two requests, one from each student)