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Method: courses.create

HTTP request
Request body
Response body
Authorization scopes
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Creates a course.

The user specified in ownerId is the owner of the created course and added as a teacher. A non-admin requesting user can only create a course with themselves as the owner. Domain admins can create courses owned by any user within their domain.

This method returns the following error codes:

PERMISSION_DENIED if the requesting user is not permitted to create courses or for access errors.
NOT_FOUND if the primary teacher is not a valid user.
FAILED_PRECONDITION if the course owner's account is disabled or for the following request errors:
- UserCannotOwnCourse
- UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached
ALREADY_EXISTS if an alias was specified in the id and already exists.

HTTP request

POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of Course.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Course.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.courses

For more information, see the Authorization guide.