Create Multiple Assignments via API

h_jones
Community Novice

Hi,

I am setting up many assignments across many different courses.

So I have downloaded the 'Postman' API tool to help with this process.

I have set up my authorisation token and used a GET to display basic course data from our Canvas build to test the connection - which was a success.

I then used POST and created a test assignment in one of our courses using the following JSON code:

{

  "assignment": {

    "name": "Test assessment 1",

    "submission_types": [

      "none"

    ],

    "points_possible": 1,

    "grading_type": "points",

    "due_at": "2015-10-18T00:00:00+01:00",

    "muted": "true",

    "published": "false"

  }

}

Which was also a success - so far all good.

As we have quite a few courses each with many different assignments each with different settings such as the 'points_possible', 'due_at' etc.. so I started a spreadsheet and populated it with the headings of 'name','points_possible','due_at','published','submission_type','description' I then set this up in JSON format using CSV To JSON Converter but there are a few different variations of JSON formatting and none have worked. e.g JSON column array or keyed JSON...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can transfer this spreadsheet across to postman and through using the canvas API start adding assignments to our multiple online courses?

Thanks!!

Huw

Labels (1)