How would I apply the "Restrict students from viewing course after term end date" to a selected list of courses.

[rlawyer]

I am looking for a way to apply the "Restrict students from viewing course after term end date" to a select list of Canvas courses. You can set this for an account using the account Settings option, but I don't want to apply this for all courses in the account, only for a select list. 

Any advice on how I might be able to accomplish this programmatically would be appreciated.

[sylvia_sotomayo]

Hi,

I have done this via the API. I had a csv file of the course ids, and one by one via a php script I called /api/v1/courses/:course_id/settings with restrict_student_past_view=true. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/courses.html#method.courses.update_settings for details.

The PHP code snippet looked like this:

$courses = file('courses.csv', FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
unset($courses[0]); //first line has a header row, not an id to process

foreach ($courses as $course) {
    $course = trim($course);
    $url = "courses/sis_course_id:$course/settings";
    $json = "restrict_student_past_view=true";
    $response = $api->curlPut($url, $json);
}

The curlPut method is from code I found in the community here and rewrote as a class method. It looks like this:

function curlPut($url, $data){
    $data = trim($data);

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://'.$this->canvasDomain.'/api/v1/'.$url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $this->tokenHeader);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 6); //Force requsts to use TLS 1.2
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // ask for results to be returned

    // Send to remote and return data to caller.
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}

The construct method for this class contains our Canvas domain, an access token and creates the token header: $this->tokenHeader = array("Authorization: Bearer ".$this->token);

It all worked earlier this year when I did this. There might be a more efficient way to do this, but this ought to work.

-S