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Enhancements to coursework in the Classroom API
January 11, 2017
Posted by
Greg Zecchini, Google Classroom Software Engineer
Hundreds of education developers use the
Classroom API
to integrate their applications with
Google Classroom
. Last year, we
announced
the ability for external applications to read and write assignments. We've received a lot of feedback from developers who began integrating assignments with Classroom, and they said that they wanted to do even more.
Today, we're making the coursework endpoints more robust, with additional management capabilities. Applications can now:
Create and update questions
Modify and delete coursework
Add Drive items and YouTube videos to coursework and student submissions
Flat Education
, a collaborative music notation app, already integrates with Classroom to let teachers quickly synchronize rosters and assignments, and design music activities accessible to students with just one click from Google Classroom. Flat has been piloting the new API functionality to create a more seamless integration. Flat CTO Vincent Giersch notes, "the support of Google Drive in the Google Classroom API is simply great: all the music scores created with G Suite for Education accounts on Flat being already Drive files, we can now directly add our Drive files in the assignments and students submissions. This will make possible for teachers and students to use Google Classroom with Flat as they would do with Google Docs."
In case you missed it, we've also made other recent updates to managing
parents and guardians
with the API. Classroom sends daily or weekly email summaries to guardians, and applications using the API to manage guardians can now detect if guardian visibility is enabled for a course, and list all guardians and guardian invitations in a domain.
For more details on what you can build with coursework, review the
documentation
, the
FAQ
, and ask questions on
Stack Overflow
. As always, let us know what you're building using the #withClassroom hashtag on Twitter or Google+. We look forward to working together to make it even easier for teachers and students to use the tools they love with Classroom.
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