Import a module from Commons to multiple courses

[nschutz]

I am looking for best practices to import a resource in Commons to a bunch of courses. If I do it manually, I will need to add myself, admin, as a Teacher to each of the courses before I can import the resource from Commons. If I do this via Commons API, will I still need to enroll the User object to each course as a Teacher first before I run the import command? I was unable to test this in Postman successfully yet, which is why I am hoping to get some directions here. I appreciate any insights or anything you've tried will be helpful.

[stuart_ryan]

Hi  @nschutz ,

I wanted to check in and see how you went with this, apologies that this has been sitting around in the community for a while, it appears to have everyone stumped!

I have had a look at the API documentation https://lor.instructure.com/docs/api/#api-Resources-ImportResourceLatestVersion and it states 'A successful import will partly rely on the user having the proper permissions in Canvas to import resources into the Canvas course.'

Therefore, if you had administrative permissions, I would *anticipate* that the call will complete successfully. There are a few things you may wish to check such as which user the content was 'created' by after the import. I certainly anticipate from reading the documentation that you could achieve this.

Please let us know how you have progressed with this, I would be happy to help you out further!

Hope that helps!

Stuart