I am looking for some guidance. The SIS import for Sections does not do what I need it to do so I am needing to write a program to update our course section names. I have a basic level understanding of APIs. Through the use of the Canvas Live API I was able to determine that what I want to do is possible.
Using the Edit a Section Canvas Live API I am able to change a section name. This works fine for one course but I need to update several hundred. I took the information from the Live API and put it into POSTMAN so I could try and get a better understanding of what variables are needed. From the API documentation I see that the variable name should be "course_section[name]". However, I am not sure how to interpret that. I tried several different iterations of this field name but none seemed to work. I did confirm that I have a connection between POSTMAN and my Canvas Beta site.
I thought that the API PUT statement would be: https://myschool.beta.instructure.com:443/api/v1/sections/sectionid/?course_section[name]=NEW NAME HERE but that keeps returning an error message.
Could someone please advise me on what I am missing to update the section name?
Thank you.
