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Mobile Course Information API Module
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This page describes how to use the Mobile Course Information API
to complete these actions:

* `Get Course Updates`_
* `Get Course Handouts`_
* `Get the Course About Page`_
  

.. _Get Course Updates:

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Get Course Updates
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.. autoclass:: mobile_api.course_info.views.CourseUpdatesList

**Example response**

.. code-block:: json

    HTTP 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/json
    Vary: Accept
    Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS

    [
        {
            "date": "October 4, 2014", 
            "content": "Reminder about the quiz due today. 
            "status": "visible", 
            "id": 2
        }, 
 
        { "date": "October 1, 2014", 
          "content": "Welcome to the course. We
            built this to help you become more familiar with taking a course on
            edX prior to your first day of class. \n<br>\n<br>\nIn a live course,
            this section is where all of the latest course announcements and
            updates would be., 
            "id": 1 } ]

.. _Get Course Handouts:

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Get Course Handouts
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.. autoclass:: mobile_api.course_info.views.CourseHandoutsList

**Use Case**

Get the HTML for course handouts.

**Example request**:

``GET /api/mobile/v0.5/course_info/{organization}/{course_number}/{course_run}/handouts``

**Response Values**

* handouts_html: The HTML for course handouts.

**Example response**

.. code-block:: json

    HTTP 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/json
    Vary: Accept
    Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS

    {
        "handouts_html": "\n\n<ol class=\"treeview-handoutsnav\">\n
                          <li><a href=\"/static/demoPDF.pdf\">Example handout</a></li> 
                          </ol>\n\n"
    }


.. _Get the Course About Page:

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Get the Course About Page
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.. autoclass:: mobile_api.course_info.views.CourseAboutDetail

**Example response**

.. code-block:: json

    HTTP 200 OK
    Content-Type: application/json
    Vary: Accept
    Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS

    {
        "overview": "<section class=\"about\">\n
                     <h2>About This Course</h2>\n   
                     <p>Include your long course description here. The long course description should contain 150-400 words.</p>
                     <p>This is paragraph 2 of the long course description. Add more paragraphs as needed. Make sure to enclose them in paragraph tags.</p>
                     </section>\n\n 
                     <section class=\"prerequisites\">\n   
                     <h2>Requirements</h2>\n
                     <p>Add information about the skills and knowledge students need to take this course.</p>\n </section>\n\n
                     <section class=\"course-staff\">\n   
                     <h2>Course Staff</h2>\n   
                     <article class=\"teacher\">\n     
                     <div class=\"teacher-image\">\n       
                     <img src=\"/static/images/placeholder-faculty.png\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin:0 20 px 0\" alt=\"Course Staff Image #1\">\n     
                     </div>\n\n     
                     <h3>Staff Member #1</h3>\n     
                     <p>Biography of instructor/staff member #1</p>\n   
                     </article>\n\n   
                     <article class=\"teacher\">\n     
                     <div class=\"teacher-image\">\n       
                     <img src=\"/static/images/placeholder-faculty.png\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin:0 20 px 0\" alt=\"Course Staff Image #2\">\n     
                     </div>\n\n     
                     <h3>Staff Member #2</h3>\n     
                     <p>Biography of instructor/staff member #2</p>\n   
                     </article>\n 
                     </section>\n\n 
                     <section class=\"faq\">\n   
                     <section class=\"responses\">\n     
                     <h2>Frequently Asked Questions</h2>\n     
                     <article class=\"response\">\n       
                     <h3>What web browser should I use?</h3>\n
                     <p>The Open edX platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, or with Internet Explorer version 9 and above.</p>\n
                     <p>See our <a href=\"http://edx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/browsers.html\">list of supported browsers</a> for the most up-to-date information.</p>\n     
                     </article>\n\n     
                     <article class=\"response\">\n       
                     <h3>Question #2</h3>\n       
                     <p>Your answer would be displayed here.</p>\n     
                     </article>\n   
                     </section>\n 
                     </section>"
    }