This request must be made by the Developer Console project of theOAuth client IDused to create the corresponding course work item.
This method returns the following error codes:
PERMISSION_DENIEDif the requesting developer project did not create the corresponding course work, if the user is not permitted to make the requested modification to the student submission, or foraccess errors.
INVALID_ARGUMENTif the request is malformed.
FAILED_PRECONDITIONif the requested course work has already been deleted.
NOT_FOUNDif the requested course or course work does not exist.
Mask that identifies which fields on the course work to update. This field is required to do an update. The update fails if invalid fields are specified. If a field supports empty values, it can be cleared by specifying it in the update mask and not in theCourseWorkobject. If a field that does not support empty values is included in the update mask and not set in theCourseWorkobject, anINVALID_ARGUMENTerror is returned.
The following fields may be specified by teachers:
title
description
state
dueDate
dueTime
maxPoints
scheduledTime
submissionModificationMode
topicId
gradingPeriodId
This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example:"user.displayName,photo".
Optional. The preview version of the API. This must be set in order to access new API capabilities made available to developers in the Preview Program.
Request body
The request body contains an instance ofCourseWork.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofCourseWork.
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