Programmatically cross list a section

I have been given a requirement to programmatically cross list sections using the REST API. I found a course that has no cross listed sections. I made the API call to cross list one of them and it didn't appear to work. I made the same call using Postman and got the same results.

Is there a log I can view that would give me details on what happened? Is there detailed documentation?

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Chris

Hi @68muscle,

Can you tell us what API call you tried making, and perhaps what error message you got back from Canvas/Postman? Also, are you already somewhat familiar with the Canvas API, or starting from the beginning with this task as your first try?

The Section Crosslist API is fairly straightforward. You'd just need make a post call in the format /api/v1/sections/:id/crosslist/:new_course_id. The :id is the canvas section id (not the sis_id) of the section, and similarly, the :new_course_id is the canvas course id for the course where you want the section to end up crosslisted to. I have a feeling it's one of these two things that might be tripping your call up. If you can provide an example of what you did, it might be easier to point the problem or walk you through things though.

Hope to hear back from you soon!

-Chris

EricDannewitz

I did this a while ago using the Canvas Python API library and Python.

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