API: Adding a custom grade book column for a course, and updating its data for a crosslisted section enrolment.

[mxwalker]

Hi there,

We have created custom gradebook columns via API, to facilitate our organisations grade moderation processes, however our tech team is unable to get crosslisted section enrolments to have the custom data added via API. Are there some hidden rules regarding which course you should identify in the API call? Thank you. 

[chriscas]

Hi @mxwalker,

As far as I know with this API, you'd need to identify the course where the section was crosslisted into.  I use this API to populate a student's major into a gradebook column, and that method has always worked for me.  The issue will be that if you allow teachers to crosslist on their own, you might now know the course_id if you're scripting purely from your SIS.  You may need to so a GET on section(s) first in that case to determine the right course_ids to use.

Hope this helps!

-Chris