REST API for GitHub Classroom?

[sbwong]

Is there already or are there plans for a REST API to access GitHub Classroom related information, including but not limited to:

• rosters and other student information
• assignments
• assignment teams and repos
• TAs and Admins info

While some information is available through the existing GitHub API's, e.g. team information, the returned data does not include anything in relationship to their classrooms, e.g. which teams belong to which classroom and/or assignments.

Personally, I'd be very willing to participate in beta testing such an API!
Thanks!

[ghostinhershell]

Hello @sbwong ! 👋 At this moment we don't have Classroom APIs for classrooms/assignments and a CLI is a very good suggestion so thank you for requesting this. ✍️

There is #18978 that potentially describes what you're looking for created by the community, perhaps check those out to assist with you Classroom workflow.

[luttje]

To simplify the request made by the original poster: it would already help us tremendously if Teams created by GitHub classroom assignments would get a description containing the assignment name. This would help us identify GitHub classroom teams in the REST API.

Our use-case is that we allow students to use GitHub during examination, but easily restrict access when they leave the exam.

We've written a tool that stores the teams students are in and then removes them from that team. Later it will add them again based on the stored information.

Not all teams in the organization we use for this should be targeted by our tool. So to identify which teams are related to which assignment, we ask students to choose a team name that starts with a known prefix. This can of course easily go wrong when they make a typo (or fail to follow instructions). Having GitHub classroom set a description that we can know beforehand would allow this tool to be a bit more robust.

[adamcee]

This may not be the right place to ask, but, is there a Roadmap anywhere for Github Classroom? We are using it more and more and while I know it is leveraging Github Actions, etc, under the hood I would like to get a firmer sense of Github's level of commitment to this tool and their plan for it.

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