Create a grade item and post a student's score via the Brightspace Valence Grades API
domain: education · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Obtain an access token scoped with grades:gradeobjects:write for the target org unit.
POST a Grade.GradeObject JSON body (e.g. GradeType "Numeric" with MaxPoints between 0.01 and 9999999999, Name, ShortName, and optional CategoryId/GradeSchemeId) to /d2l/api/le/{version}/{orgUnitId}/grades/ — do not include an Id field, and Name must not duplicate an existing grade object's name or contain / " * < > + = | , %.
Read the new grade object's Id from the 200 OK response body so you can post scores against it.
Get an access token scoped with grades:gradevalues:write, then PUT a Grade.IncomingGradeValue body (e.g. {"GradeObjectType":1,"PointsNumerator":<score>,"Comments":{...},"PrivateComments":{...}}) to /d2l/api/le/{version}/{orgUnitId}/grades/{gradeObjectId}/values/{userId} to set that student's score.
To read back a specific student's value, GET /d2l/api/le/{version}/{orgUnitId}/grades/{gradeObjectId}/values/{userId} with scope grades:gradevalues:read.
Known gotchas
The PUT to set a grade value replaces the entire value block, and the GradeObjectType in the PUT body must match the grade object's own type (Numeric=1, PassFail=2, SelectBox=3, Text=4) or the API returns 400.
A returned CategoryId of 0 means "no category" — don't try to GET a grade category with ID 0.
The Weight field is only accepted on input with LE API v1.89+, and only when the grade item's category doesn't already provide a weighting.
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