APIs

Forced pauses
Hello, I am developing a course that involves a lot of self reflection. My development team would like the learner to have forced pauses in their learning where they take time to reflect and integrate their learning into practice between key learning points in the course. For example. Between Modules 1 and 2, and again…
Ability to pull User Progress via API
How can I pull user Progress via the API? When I try yo use GET /d2l/api/le/(version)/(orgUnitId)/content/userprogress/, I get a 404 back. Regarding , 'Finally, note that the back-end service may not have all the Brightspace functionality enabled to provide access to all the APIs contained in this API reference…
Is it possible to set the active navbar through an API call?
We're moving towards a standard navbar for all courses after years of not enforcing one. We have maybe 40% of courses using a custom navbar and will be removing the permission to update navbars soon. I'd like to be able to make an API call to set the Active Navbar for all OUs this semester, but I haven't seen anything in…
May I use Brightspace as my LMS for my own web application?
Hello community. I'm trying to build an educative course for my university and I don't want to place it on Brightspace, I want to make it as external tool. There's a way I could use Brightspace as a bridge between Educaplay/Kahoot to my web application so I can save the results and update them on my own database? Thank you!
Student access to brightspace API
Hi, I want to create a project where users can extract their registered courses, but I do not know if the API allows that access to students or if it's even feasible. Is there any resource I can refer to to find out what API calls I, as a student, can make? Thank you, Manmilan
403 Forbidden When Accessing Grades Endpoints via API
Hello everyone! I’m new here and working on an integration to fetch grades through the Brightspace API. I have a service account with a custom role (cloned from the standard service account role) where I granted the permission “See user grade values (API Only).” My registered application is requesting the scopes core:*:*…
Grades API forbidden
hi..i'm tryin to fetch grades of a particular student using this url "{{domain}}/d2l/api/le/{{versionG}}/{{oid}}/grades/values/{{userId}}/ " , but its giving me a 403 which is forbidden, can anyone help me with it…. thank you.
JWKS url for OAuth access in Brightspace?
We are trying to verify the access token from OAuth. In order to do this, we need a "key identifier" (kid) from Brightspace, but we are not sure how to find it. There's one endpoint in our environment called: https://<instance>.brightspace.com/d2l/.well-known/jwks Here are a set of keys that can be used, but none of them…
Do we have APIs to create new rubric and add rubric to assignment?
I did not find the api to create new rubric at https://docs.valence.desire2learn.com/res/assessment.html
Exporting Course information using API
I have had success exporting "grades" information using the API but so far have not been able to export course information. I have looked through the API documentation I can find and put together a GET string similar to what I use for grades that I thought should pull course information for a single course but it returns a…
Is there an API call to to find all users with email not like *@institution.edu
I would like to find all "guest" users. Is there an API call to to find all users with email not like *@institution.edu
Unable to create a Postman Collection and connect it to Brightspace
I am tryingto create a Postman Collection and connect it to Brightspace. I followed theprocess mentioned in the documentation attached below. We are unable to createa token to establish the connection as it is giving us an error “Invalidredirect Uri:” below is the screenshot of the details mentioned in the…
Quiz Printer Widget Limitations
Has anyone else installed the new Quiz Printer Widget? https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/27503-printing-assistance-for-brightspace-quizzes We recently discovered two limitations that are not listed in the known issues. First, if you have more than 20 quizzes in the course, only the first 20 will appear in…
POST Create Grade Item
I was in the wrong area when I posted this question the first time. Hopefully this time its being posted to the Development group. I have tried many combinations for sending data to create a gradebook item but I get the same error message. I have checked and rechecked the documentation and it appears to be correct. Anyone…
Dynamic Tool Registration
Hi There! I have a trouble while setting the Platform notification service and send institutional role while using the Api for dynamic registration . Can you please guide me for the payload for it
Getting Not Authorized error when creating user
I am getting "Not Authorized" error while creating user in D2l. Scope given: "core:*:* users:userdata:create" Any help appreciated
Test Users and Roles
Good evening, I have 2 questions: The API Test Tool site (https://apitesttool.desire2learnvalence.com/) states that you can use the DevCoPStudent account to test API calls to the test D2L site (devcop.brightspace.com). I am doing this successfully. Are there any other test accounts I can use to call the API, particularly a…
403 authentication error
I got 403 authentication error when making the following API call: GET /d2l/api/le/(version)/content/items/(userId) Which permissions are required to run this API call
This client is not permitted to use the client_credentials grant
Hi, I'm trying to use lti 1.3 and I want to authenticate using https://auth.brightspace.com/core/connect/token I created a new client id using the Oauth 2.0 section in Manage extensibility as administrator However when I try to consume the service I receive an error: { "error": "unauthorized_client", "error_description":…

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