Getting section assignments dates from the API
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Hi all,
I'm new to Canvas and just finding my way around so hoping I'm missing something and there is a more straight forward solution to my issue.
We have a dashboard in our schools website showing things like todays timetable and upcoming assignments. A problem we have is that some teachers use sections for different classes and their assignments have different due dates. A search through the API using 'courses/course_id/assignments' returns the assignment due date which isn't the same as the due date set in some of the sections for this course. I have found I can get to this information but it requires the following seperate requests from the API which add considerably to the page load time :
- Get all assignments for a course
- courses/course_id/assignments
- Get the sections for the course with a list of students (to work out our current students section)
- courses/course_id/sections?include[]=students
- Get the individual assignment because courses/course_id/assignments doesn't return all_dates
- courses/course_id/assignments/assignment_id?all_dates=true
That provides all the data required to find a students actual due date. I'm hoping there is a more direct path to this that I'm missing.