Custom Gradebook Columns

API for adding additional columns to the gradebook. Custom gradebook columns will be displayed with the other frozen gradebook columns.

A CustomColumn object looks like:

{
  // The ID of the custom gradebook column
  "id": 2,
  // When true, this column's visibility will be toggled in the Gradebook when a
  // user selects to show or hide notes
  "teacher_notes": false,
  // header text
  "title": "Stuff",
  // column order
  "position": 1,
  // won't be displayed if hidden is true
  "hidden": false,
  // won't be editable in the gradebook UI
  "read_only": true
}

A ColumnDatum object looks like:

// ColumnDatum objects contain the entry for a column for each user.
{
  "content": "Nut allergy",
  "user_id": 2
}

CustomGradebookColumnsApiController#index

GET /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns

A paginated list of all custom gradebook columns for a course

Request Parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription

include_hidden

boolean

Include hidden parameters (defaults to false)

Returns a list of CustomColumn objects.

CustomGradebookColumnsApiController#create

POST /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns

Scope: url:POST|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns

Create a custom gradebook column

Request Parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription

column[title]

Required string

no description

column[position]

integer

The position of the column relative to other custom columns

column[hidden]

boolean

Hidden columns are not displayed in the gradebook

column[teacher_notes]

boolean

Set this if the column is created by a teacher. The gradebook only supports one teacher_notes column.

column[read_only]

boolean

Set this to prevent the column from being editable in the gradebook ui

Returns a CustomColumn object.

CustomGradebookColumnsApiController#update

PUT /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id

Accepts the same parameters as custom gradebook column creation

Returns a CustomColumn object.

CustomGradebookColumnsApiController#destroy

DELETE /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id

Scope: url:DELETE|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id

Permanently deletes a custom column and its associated data

Returns a CustomColumn object.

CustomGradebookColumnsApiController#reorder

POST /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/reorder

Scope: url:POST|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/reorder

Puts the given columns in the specified order

200 OK is returned if successful

Request Parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription

order[]

Required integer

no description

CustomGradebookColumnDataApiController#index

GET /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id/data

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id/data

This does not list entries for students without associated data.

Request Parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription

include_hidden

boolean

If true, hidden columns will be included in the result. If false or absent, only visible columns will be returned.

Returns a list of ColumnDatum objects.

CustomGradebookColumnDataApiController#update

PUT /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id/data/:user_id

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_columns/:id/data/:user_id

Set the content of a custom column

Request Parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription

column_data[content]

Required string

Column content. Setting this to blank will delete the datum object.

Returns a ColumnDatum object.

CustomGradebookColumnDataApiController#bulk_update

PUT /api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_column_data

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/courses/:course_id/custom_gradebook_column_data

Set the content of custom columns

{

"column_data": [
  {
    "column_id": example_column_id,
    "user_id": example_student_id,
    "content": example_content
    },
    {
    "column_id": example_column_id,
    "user_id": example_student_id,
    "content: example_content
  }
]

}

Request Parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription

column_data[]

Required Array

Column content. Setting this to an empty string will delete the data object.

Example Request:

Returns a Progress object.


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