OneRoster Grades: Empty Data

Eric Eskildsen
Eric Eskildsen
Sixth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant
in Education Management APIs

Hi all -

I'm trying to fetch grades through OneRoster. LineItems and Results return empty arrays for me. I've tested with 5 or 10 schools so far.

Other endpoints return the expected data. See Schools example below.

I wondered if year start/end dates might be the culprit since many schools are off for the summer. To test, I changed the OneRoster settings to “Previous Year” in https://*.myschoolapp.com/edu-api/oneroster/settings, but that didn't have any noticeable effect.

What am I missing?

Comments

  • Todd DeSchuiteneer
    Todd DeSchuiteneer Blackbaud Employee
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 2 Name Dropper Participant

    Hi @Eric Eskildsen, do you know if the lineitems you are attempting to get results for were created using the PUT LineItem create endpoint? ( https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/afe-rostr/ims/oneroster/v1p1/lineItems/{id} )

    You will only be able to return results for those items created with the endpoint.

  • Eric Eskildsen
    Eric Eskildsen
    Sixth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant

    @Todd DeSchuiteneer Thanks Todd, I didn't realize that.

    Here's my understanding from what you shared….Please correct me if I'm misstating anything:

    • If a teacher creates assignments/grades in Blackbaud, those can't be exported via OneRoster.
    • However, we can programmatically import assignments and grades from another LMS into OneRoster.
    • Programmatically imported assignments and grades can later be “re-exported” through OneRoster….I.e., they'll be visible via the relevant OneRoster endpoints going forward.

    If that's right, let me ask you this….I assume that teachers can see and update those imported assignments and grades in their Blackbaud gradebooks, correct? And then those updated grades will be reflected in the OneRoster output, so they can be synced back to the LMS?

  • Michael Conan
    Michael Conan
    Second Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant

    @Eric Eskildsen

    Teachers can definitely see and update the assignments and grades posted via OneRoster. I’m not certain whether their updates would be reflected in subsequent queries for these items.

    This took us a bit to sort out as well - another tricky one was that if your app creates the line item, but the teacher then manually adds a grade for a student, your app will not be able to update that grade. To handle this issue we will have our app create draft grades for each student when the assignment is created, then even if the teachers updates them the app can still sync subsequent changes from the LMS.

    We’re not doing any grade sync back to the LMS though, just pushing updates 1-way from LMS→SIS

Categories