How can I tell via API whether or not a teacher can still add people to a course

Hi, folks. I'm looking for an efficient way to tell via API whether or not a teacher in a given course is still eligible to add people to it. My first thought was that the workflow state returned by /v1/courses would do it but it looks like courses where the term end date has passed still show as available (not completed).

Anyone else figured this out?

Thanks in advance,

Victoria

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bneporadny

Victoria,

I'm not sure of a why to do this using an API because permissions to add and remove other teachers, ta's and students are all controlled via course level permissions.How do I set permissions for a course-level role in an account?

Hope this helps.

Brian

bneporadny

Vicki,

Now I'm following you. You can check a single course status by calling the Get A Single Course API.

https://yourinstitution.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/sis_course_id:YourInstitutionsCourseSISID?access_token=YourInstit…

You will receive back a JSON response and can look at "workflow_state":"completed". By doing this you will be able to tell the status of the course.

Brian

bneporadny

Have you looked at the "end_at":null portion in the response you receive back?

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