Cross-listed Sections Of The Original Course

[aydineylem]

Is there an API to find cross-listed sections of the original course?

When we make a call to "/api/v1/courses/{courseId}?include[]=sections" it returns only the current sections that the course has. Not the ones tied to itself initially and then cross-listed to another course.
The section itself knows the original course that it is originally part of(nonxlist_course_id). However, I am more curious about whether is there a way the original course can know that.

If I need to explain it with an example; say there is course A and B and course A has a section named X. When we cross-list section X to course B, course A lose track of section X. From now on, only section X knows that it was originally part of the course A. I need to know if course A can know that section X was part of course A initially.

[dgrobani]

I'd love to hear if anyone has an alternative to how I'm addressing this in my code, which is generating a xlist provisioning report and processing the returned CSV.

[agschmid]

Have you tried the sections api call? It returns the course that the section is currently listed in:
https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/sections.html

[aydineylem]

Hi @agschmid 

I have tried the sections api call. As mentioned above the section itself knows the original course that it is originally part of. nonxlist_course_id holds that information when we make a call to the sections api. However, I am more curious about whether is there a way the original course can know that the section was part of itself initially and then cross-listed to another course.

[dgrobani]

Here's an excerpt of a xlist provisioning report:

This shows that the last three courses have been crosslisted. nonxlist_course_id shows the original course, while xlist_course_id shows the course to which it's been crosslisted.

[Doug9]

@aydineylem , agree, I don't see a better way.  I looked at tables in Canvas Data 2 without success.  I ran into a similar problem today where on button click I want to retrieve a current Canvas course grade for 1 student.  My code knows what course and section the student is enrolled in from my in-house SIS and makes API call for the course grade, but if the student's section was cross-listed into another Canvas course shell I don't then have an API call to walk the cross-listing forward to find student's grade.  Getting all the student's current term grades with the Enrollments API and filtering seems to be my best approach.