[ARCHIVED] Course participation

[stephen_sc]

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-change-the-start-and-end-dates-for-a-co...

We have integration with a SIS. 

In course participation we need across the api function setup some course as Course and another as Term.

Who is the api parameter?

[James · Accepted solution]

@stephen_sc 

If I understand the question, you would like to use the Canvas API to tell it set the Course Participation to be either Term or Date.

This is the course[restrict_enrollments_to_course_dates] parameter from the update a course endpoint of the Courses API. True is to use the course dates and false is to use the term dates. The wording on the description is incorrect and poorly written, so it can be confusing.

I just did some research into this a week ago in another place, so rather than repeat it all here, I'll just link to that thread in case you need additional information: add participation field to courses API.

[dgrobani]

After studying the documentation for the Course API endpoint just now, I still couldn't figure out how to set participation via the API, so I asked Bing Chat. It gave me the correct answer, and its first citation was this post. Thanks, @James!

[James]

Daniel ( @dgrobani ), I know a lot of people have concerns about using AI, but it's nice to know that it gives useful results at least some of the time.

Unrelated to this thread, but I missed hanging out with you at InstructureCon.

[dgrobani]

@James, I was disappointed not to be able to make it this year. I missed miss hanging out with you, too, but I'm glad you got to go! I hope you had a fun and productive time.