Use Canvas API to post discussion posts as students?

[FabCom-Aaron]

Looks like the API endpoint to post a discussion post only will post as the user that the API key is registered to. I was curious if there is anyway either with API or LTI flow to send in discussions posts as specific students using their user_ids similar to how we can submit assignments using their student IDs. It looks to me that there isn't functionality setup for this with the API yet but would appreciate any info!

[FabCom-Aaron]

I have also been looking through the graphql functionality with no luck.

[jerry_nguyen · Accepted solution]

@FabCom-Aaron 

You can use "Masquerading": https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.masquerading.html