Sample Data for API Testing?
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Short version: I would like to generate a lot of fake students and quiz data in a free demo shell to do testing on my API scripts.
Motivation:
I've been using the Canvas API to set up faster grading tools for free response questions on Classic Quizzes. While this has worked so far, my scripts make a lot of fussy API calls and are quite brittle right now. I would therefore like to perform unit and integration tests on a fake course with fake students. I'm a biologist and hobbyist programmer, not a professional, so this is EXTRA important; my code likely needs more checks than it has!
Obviously, I do NOT want to use any of my real courses for test data, especially since I'd eventually like to put this on a public GitHub.
So I'm looking for fake courses with fake student data.
What I've Tried:
I got a free Canvas shell and tried making fake students manually. It's not very workable! I can set up GMail addresses with "+" suffixes (myname+teststudent1@gmail.com) but each must be manually enrolled, and quiz data entered.
Questions:
- Is there a good way to use the API to quickly make a batch of test students and enroll them in a test shell, then populate it with fake quiz data?
- Has anybody already made such a 'testing course' for import?
- (I'm wondering what Instructure is doing internally to test the API... such a fake shell might exist somewhere.)
