Find or Create Assignment

Find or Create Assignment

Upsert an assignment into a course by name, creating it only if absent.

1. Search the course assignments using the supplied name as the search term, returning matching assignments.
2. Read the matched assignment back by id to return its full record.
3. Create a new assignment with the supplied name and point value when no existing assignment matched.

What you'll need to have ready

• courseId: The Canvas course id to search and write into.
• name: The assignment name to search for and create if missing.
• pointsPossible: The maximum points for the assignment when it must be created.

For your developer

Arazzo workflow canvas-lms:find-or-create-assignment, 3 operations: listAssignments → getAssignment → createAssignment. Specs on APIs.io.