Thanks for your reply!    I ended up looking up a root account using api, I can detect it because it has parent_account_id:null then when I point my api to search courses for that account id instead, ...

We use REST api for Canvas to create courses. We found recently this thread which mentions the participation setting is needed. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Add-Participation-...

we don't hold on to the course ids from canvas side in our system so we can't use any course specific apis to check if it exists. Hence we need to do a lookup,..  

We are currently using the conclude option when we remove courses from our catalog now, and I am attempting to make a 'create_or_update' pattern so if we ever try to re-add a course to a catalog again<!-- -->...

I want to post a course via api but an existing course (via the same integration_id) gets in the way and fail it. However I have manually deleted the course using the ui in canvas. &nbsp; so then canvas so...

We use REST api for Canvas to create courses. We found recently this thread which mentions the participation setting is needed. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Add-Participation-...

Thanks for your reply!&nbsp; &nbsp; I ended up looking up a root account using api, I can detect it because it has parent_account_id:null then when I point my api to search courses for that account id instead, ...

we don't hold on to the course ids from canvas side in our system so we can't use any course specific apis to check if it exists. Hence we need to do a lookup,.. &nbsp;

We are currently using the conclude option when we remove courses from our catalog now, and I am attempting to make a 'create_or_update' pattern so if we ever try to re-add a course to a catalog again<!-- -->...

I want to post a course via api but an existing course (via the same integration_id) gets in the way and fail it. However I have manually deleted the course using the ui in canvas. &nbsp; so then canvas so...