Academic Rosters API and Enrollment Type

Lindsey Bryant

Does anyone use the Academic Roster API and specifically the “enrollment_type” array data points? We're finding a gap on trying to identity students who are taking a class for credit or for audit. There isn't a way to get this from an advance list, you can get to it from a Sky List (but then you can't automate it to be stored in a data warehouse) and the Academic Roster AP appears to be inaccurate. Right now, it's showing we have over 350+ students taking classes for audit, which isn't possible.

I'm hoping there is another API that I can leverage but wanted to also see if others have found issues with this API and the array.

Stephen Boyle

@Lindsey Bryant
It looks like that field is essentially reporting the reverse.

Here is the enrollment type dialog:

The Grades setting is the control for the field you are referring to in the API output, translate_grades_pass_fail. The API does not accurately represent that field.

For one, the options change depending on if Earns Credits is true or false. And second, I believe “true” is representing the top option, “All grades possible”, and “false” represents the second option - which is either “Translate grades to pass/fail settings” or “Only certain grades from grade translation are allowed”.

I'll add a work item to correct this object. We will likely create a separate field to better handle the possibilities that true/false doesn't quite represent. We will discuss reversing the existing field's output or just deprecating the field.

Meanwhile, I believe if you just treat true and false as described above, instead of how the field name reads, then your results should be as you expect.