Creating Graded Discussion Topic and setting assignment_override through the API?

[gladysie]

Is it possible to do when using the /discussion_topic API?  If so, is the params  'assignment[assignment_override][course_section_id]':value or 'assignment_override[course_section_id]':value that is used in the post?  We're trying to generate discussion topics with each one only being available to one of the x sections in the course. 

[kenneth_larsen · Accepted solution]

I don't think you can make it available to only one section. However, I believe that it is possible to make it available to a specific group. To do that you would need to first add all of the students in a section to the same group. Then you should be able to create the discussion and target a specific group using the group_category_id from the discussion topics API.

You can assign different due dates for each section using  assignment_override[course_section_id] in the assignments overrides API but I don't think you can completely eliminate it from the other sections.

[gladysie]

Kenneth,

     Thanks for the feedback.  I was able to complete my task using the assignment and assignment_override APIs.  In the current version of my code, I create the new discussion topic using the discussion API and set the parameters to make it a graded assignment.  From the response, I retrieve the newly created Assignment ID and use the assignment_override API to set it up for a section.  I then modify the Assignment object for each discussion topic so assignment[only_visible_to_overrides] is True.  This removed the Everyone Else entry and now my discussion topic is only available to the section I set it for. 

[kenneth_larsen]

 @gladysie , I am glad that you got it to work. I had never noticed the assignment[only_visible_to_overrides] setting. Thanks for pointing that out.