Accessing Courses in Canvas' "Past Enrollments" Section

The Courses | Instructure Developer Documentation Portal documentation has the details you need. Basically by default, the courses API call returns "active" courses, but what you're looking for are "completed" courses. You'll need to add the enrollment_state parameter with a value of "completed" (or "active,completed" to return all courses) to the courses call, and then you should see those completed courses.

I hope this info helps!

-Chris

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I hope this info helps!

-Chris

Thanks for the speedy reply! I've tried attaching that query parameter before (both "/v1/courses?enrollment_state=completed" and "/v1/courses?enrollment_state=active,completed"), but it still returns an empty list. There's also an equivalent for that endpoint ("/v1/users/[UserID]/enrollments?enrollment_state=completed"), but it returns an empty list as well. I seriously don't know why those courses won't show up…

Can you access the courses form the UI? I wonder if perhaps your school doesn't allow access to past courses, and that prevents the API from returning them. We let students access past courses here, and the "/api/v1/courses?enrollment_state=completed" call returns the courses for every user I've tried it with.

-Chris

Yes, I can still access and see the courses in the course UI. I don't mind giving out the API key to this account since it's old, so if you want to try it yourself, then the API key is 5~Chwc6tNNVQkwYaNLfLMBeNxE9xVURGM6nh6NraAXEXU4yZHPa99Y8eZxzENZ8NNz
and the school's canvas URL is "learn.maricopa.edu." I'm making this using JS, but for demonstration purposes I put it in this code snippet for you to try out: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0d9156c00b5148109c3efd40b3911bdd

@Chris Yeah, I have no idea either, and figuring out the difference was what I dedicated most of yesterday to. Am I just out of luck?

I think the best step you can take next would be to ask your institutions local Canvas team if they have somehow implemented any restrictions. Aside from permissions (which don't seem to be an issue), I don't think customizing access for a user token is possible, but there may be something I'm not thinking about in the right way. I guess I should ask how you go your access token, I'm assuming it was generated through your user settings area, but if not, that could be an important clue.

-Chris

Yep, it was generated through my Canvas Settings. If they implemented restrictions, that would be odd because the other Canvas endpoints I've tried have worked just fine. It's just that this one in particular is being unhelpful. Another interesting this is that the same result happens when I use the account's session cookie as authentication instead of the API key, so I don't think that's it either. Maybe they're using a different endpoint somehow? When I inspect the network requests on that page, it doesn't even call that endpoint to begin with. At first, I thought the behavior was specific to that school's Canvas, but the same thing happens when I try it with my current school's Canvas on the same page (though calling the course API on that account actually returns something). I genuinely have no idea what's going on…