Creating courses through an API Post with only a Teacher trial account

[EdKane]

I'm using the ID from a teacher trial account to make the endpoint POST (/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses)  and when I attempt to create a new course, everything looks to work but I'm not seeing the course being created. Anyone know if the API POST's will work with a trial account?

 

[mzimmerman]

Hi @EdKane 

Are you getting a course object back when you run the API, as described in https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/courses.html#method.courses.create ?

That would be the biggest clue indicating whether or not it was working.

One thing to consider is that the API will create a new course, but it will not enroll you in the course.  So, you would not see it listed with your courses, even if it was successfully created.

[EdKane]

Yes - I get the response below. I guess then, is there a parameter that needs to be passed in to enroll me the teach in the course as well so I see it on my dashboard? Added my Request and Response samples. Trying to keep the request as simple as possible. 

[AtulSingh]

I'm also getting the same problem where I create the course but it does not shows into my dashboard. The main reason that I found is that the created course must me enrolled as a teacher.

If you have found the solution, please share with me

[mzimmerman]

@AtulSingh 

That makes sense, since creating a course and enrolling a user are really separate operations.

I wonder if you could use the "enroll a user" API (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/enrollments.html#method.enrollments_api.create ) with the course_id that is returned by the "create course" API to enroll yourself in the course?