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Version: 2.32.0

Course run synchronization API

API endpoint allowing remote systems to synchronize their course runs with a Richie instance.

Synchronization endpoint [/api/1.0/course-runs-sync]

This documentation describes version "1.0" of this API endpoint.

Synchronize a course run [POST]

It takes a JSON object containing the course run details:

  • resource_link: https://lms.example.com/courses/course-v1:001+001+001/info (string, required) - url of the course syllabus on the LMS from which a unique course identifier can be extracted
  • start: 2018-02-01T06:00:00Z (string, optional) - ISO 8601 date, when this session of the course starts
  • end: 2018-02-28T06:00:00Z (string, optional) - ISO 8601 date, when this session of the course ends
  • enrollment_start: 2018-01-01T06:00:00Z (string, optional) - ISO 8601 date, when enrollment for this session of the course starts
  • enrollment_end: 2018-01-31T06:00:00Z (string, optional) - ISO 8601 date, when enrollment for this session of the course ends
  • languages: ['fr', 'en'] (array[string], required) - ISO 639-1 code (2 letters) for the course's languages
  • Request (application/json)

    • Headers
      • Authorization: SIG-HMAC-SHA256 xxxxxxx (string, required) - Authorization header containing the digest of the utf-8 encoded json representation of the submitted data for the given secret key and SHA256 digest algorithm (see [synchronizing-course-runs] for an example).
    • Body
      {
      "resource_link": "https://lms.example.com/courses/course-v1:001+001+001/info",
      "start": "2021-02-01T00:00:00Z",
      "end": "2021-02-31T23:59:59Z",
      "enrollment_start": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "enrollment_end": "2021-01-31T23:59:59Z",
      "languages": ["en", "fr"]
      }
  • Response 200 (application/json)

    • Body
      {
      "success": True
      }