June 2024 developer updates

[Google for Education Developer Announcements]

Below are this month's Google for Education developer news items. Please reach out to our support resources with any questions or concerns.

Announcements

Classroom API

✅ See our Preview the Classroom API guide for information about upcoming features and instructions on accessing and using them.

• It is now possible to configure grading periods in a course using the Classroom API! The grading periods endpoints are available in public preview. To use endpoints in public preview, join the Developer Preview Program.

Classroom add-ons

• Classroom add-ons are now generally available to developers! See the Workspace developer blog post for more information and our developer guides to get started building an add-on.

• The Python and Java add-ons reference implementations have been published to the Google Workspace samples on GitHub.

Reminders from last month:

• Chrome has announced timeline updates for the phase out of third-party (3P) cookies. On January 4, 2023, Chrome introduced Tracking Protection, which restricts website access to 3P cookies by default, to 1% of users. The timeline for the complete phase out has shifted from the second half of 2024 to early 2025 and is tentative on agreements with regulators. We still recommend you see our guide to prepare for the deprecation and learn about the impact to add-ons and recommended mitigation measures. 

• The add-ons requirements have been revised. Several items have been removed, combined, rewritten for clarity, or made less restrictive. No action is required for already-published add-ons; these requirements will apply to all future add-on submissions.

API changes

Classroom API reference

Reminders from last month:

• The Course.courseMaterialSets field now exclusively returns an empty list. This field has been deprecated and read-only for several years, so we expect little impact on any production applications.

• 🎉 We've decreased the Classroom API p50 (median) latency by roughly 20% (~100ms)! 

Documentation changes

Classroom API guides

Please be advised of the following documentation changes this month:

• Grading periods:

  • Two new guides - Access the grading periods endpoints in public preview and Manage grading periods.

  • New grading periods reference documentation.

• Classroom add-ons guides:

  • Significant revisions to existing guides for general availability.

  • Walkthrough pages updated with reminders about the upcoming deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome.

Getting support

Consult the Classroom API developer support pages for FAQs and support resources.