Domain administrators are permitted todirectly addusers within their domain as students to courses within their domain. Students are permitted to add themselves to a course using an enrollment code.
This method returns the following error codes:
PERMISSION_DENIEDif the requesting user is not permitted to create students in this course or foraccess errors.
NOT_FOUNDif the requested course ID does not exist.
FAILED_PRECONDITIONif the requested user's account is disabled, for the followingrequest errors:
CourseMemberLimitReached
CourseNotModifiable
UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached
InactiveCourseOwner
ALREADY_EXISTSif the user is already a student or teacher in the course.
HTTP request
POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses/{courseId}/students
Identifier of the course to create the student in. This identifier can be either the Classroom-assigned identifier or analias.
Query parameters
Parameters
enrollmentCode
string
Enrollment code of the course to create the student in. This code is required ifuserIdcorresponds to the requesting user; it may be omitted if the requesting user has administrative permissions to create students for any user.
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