We need to create multiple assignments (via API) and assign each of these to a particular subset of students (who will be enrolled on one or more of several specific course sections).
Looking at the API documentation here https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/assignments.html#method.assignment_overrides.create it says "must identify an active section of the assignment's course not already targetted by a different override".
To me that reads like I can assign an assignment override to a particular section only once - if I tried to assign that section to another assignment override it would fail. But this doesn't seem right at all - I'm sure I could allocate multiple assignments to a particular section via the UI.
Am i just reading it wrong?
EDIT:
I've tested this and been able to assign a section to more than one assignment as an override. So although I still don't understand the quote above from the API documentation, at least that works...
My new/next state of confusion relates to the "create assignment" call (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/assignments.html#method.assignments_api.create) and the "assignment[assignment_overrides][]" parameter. How the heck do I use that to add a "List of overrides for the assignment"??? I've tried every variation of syntax I can think of but I can't get it to work 😢
