Is there an API or a tool to let me create multiple assignments at once?

[lschoeneman1]

Hi everyone,

Is there an API or a tool to let me create multiple assignments at once? I have a bunch of assignments I need to create and doing it manually seems like it will take forever!

If there is an API for classroom, I can definitely write the code..

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks!

[oliveirasmatheus]

Hi there!

Yes, there’s an API you can use to create multiple assignments programmatically. If you’re using Google Classroom, the Google Classroom API provides a courses.courseWork.create endpoint for creating assignments.

Here’s a quick example using Python:

from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google.oauth2 import service_account

SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.courseworkmaterials']
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE = 'your-service-account-file.json'

creds = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
    SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE, scopes=SCOPES)

service = build('classroom', 'v1', credentials=creds)

course_id = 'your-course-id'
coursework = {
    "title": "Assignment Title",
    "description": "Assignment Description",
    "dueDate": {"year": 2025, "month": 1, "day": 10},
    "dueTime": {"hours": 23, "minutes": 59},
    "workType": "ASSIGNMENT",
}

response = service.courses().courseWork().create(
    courseId=course_id, body=coursework).execute()

print(f"Assignment created: {response.get('id')}")

You can loop through a list of assignments to automate the process. For detailed setup, check out the Google Classroom API documentation.

Let me know if you need more help!

[lschoeneman1]

Any non-google options? We are using blackboard unfortunately.

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