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

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?

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mzimmerman

Hi @105947621702175

When you create the course via the API, are you also including the "Enroll_me":"true" parameter when creating your course via the API? If you do not include that parameter, then there is nothing to link you to the course after you have created it...

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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.

105947621702175

I am also facing the same issue with a free tier Teacher account.

It is a weird issue with the Canvas LMS API that's blocking our course-creation workflow. Hoping someone has seen this before.

What's happening:

We make a POST /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/courses call
This account id is the one which is binding to the courses I have created via the dashboard. which I can retrieve via api/v1/courses
Get back a clean 201 Created response with valid course data (id, name, timestamps, the works)
Immediately try to fetch the course with GET /api/v1/courses/{id}
...and it's gone. 404. Doesn't exist.

The course also doesn't show up in our "get all courses" calls or in the Canvas UI dashboard. It's like the API says "yep, created!" but then the course vanishes into thin air.

Additional weirdness: Even when I try to enroll my user via /api/v1/courses/{course_id}/enrollments using the course ID from the 201 response, I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error.

mzimmerman

Hi @105947621702175

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