API to Unconclude a Course?

[Brandon @ Webster]

Has anyone found a way to unconclude a course using the API?

[Rob Orton]

You should be able to edit a course and pass offer true.

https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/courses.html#method.courses.update

This would only unconclude the course. You would also have to unconlude enrollments if you wanted that too.

-Rob

[Brandon @ Webster]

I had initially tried that but the course wasn't unconcluding so I wasn't sure if there was another way to do it, or I just had some errors in my code...

Here's what I go going at the moment:

$url = $domain . '/api/v1/courses/' . $course_id;

$fields = array(

"course[end_at]" => "",

"offer" => "true"

);

$fields_string = http_build_query($fields);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Bearer ".$access_token));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch),true);

print("<pre>".print_r($data,true)."</pre>");

which returns the following result:

Array
(
    [account_id] => (account id)
    [course_code] => BKDEV
    [default_view] => syllabus
    [id] => (course id)
    [name] => Brandon's Dev
    [start_at] => 2013-08-09T17:36:51Z
    [end_at] => 
    [public_syllabus] => 
    [storage_quota_mb] => 500
    [hide_final_grades] => 
    [apply_assignment_group_weights] => 
    [calendar] => Array
        (
            [ics] => (calendar url)
        )

    [sis_course_id] => 
    [workflow_state] => completed
)

Now, I was able to unconclude the course using https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/courses.html#method.courses.batch_update using the following:

$url = $domain . '/api/v1/accounts/' . $account_id . '/courses';

$fields = array(

"course_ids[]" => $course_id,

"event" => "offer"

);

$fields_string = http_build_query($fields);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Bearer ".$access_token));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);

$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch),true);

print("<pre>".print_r($data,true)."</pre>");

so at least there is a workaround on the off chance the update course > offer endpoint is broken