Sync a Google Classroom course roster by listing and adding students and teachers
domain: education · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Call GET .../courses/{courseId}/students (courses.students.list) and GET .../courses/{courseId}/teachers (courses.teachers.list) to read the current roster; requires scope classroom.rosters or classroom.rosters.readonly (add classroom.profile.emails/classroom.profile.photos for those profile fields).
Call POST .../courses/{courseId}/students (courses.students.create) to add a student directly — permitted for domain administrators adding within-domain users; a non-admin adding themselves must supply the course's enrollmentCode as a query parameter.
Call POST .../courses/{courseId}/teachers (courses.teachers.create) to add a teacher directly, likewise restricted to domain administrators adding within-domain users.
For any caller that isn't a qualifying domain admin — including teachers adding other teachers or students — use invitations.create instead so the invitee can accept.
Handle ALREADY_EXISTS when a user is already a student/teacher, and FAILED_PRECONDITION errors such as CourseMemberLimitReached or CourseTeacherLimitReached during sync.
Known gotchas
Domain admins can only bypass the invitation flow with students.create/teachers.create when both the added user and the course's primary teacher are within the admin's own domain; otherwise use invitations.create.
Teachers can never directly add users via students.create/teachers.create — Google's docs state teachers must always use invitations.create.
courses.students.create requires the enrollmentCode query parameter only when userId is the requesting user themself; it can be omitted when the caller has admin permission to add on behalf of others.
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