Create educationClass

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Create a new class. This will also create a universal group. When you use this API to create a class, it will add special properties to the group, which will add features such as assignments and special handling within Microsoft Teams when teams are created using the group. Please note that this API only creates the universal group and does not create a team. Microsoft Teams provides a user interface for teachers to create teams for their own classes using the groups created by this API.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Not supported. Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application EduRoster.ReadWrite.All Not available.

HTTP request

POST /education/classes

Request headers

Header Value
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type application/json

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of an educationClass object.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and an educationClass object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/education/classes
Content-type: application/json

{
  "description": "Health Level 1",
  "classCode": "Health 501",
  "displayName": "Health 1",
  "externalId": "11019",
  "externalName": "Health Level 1",
  "externalSource": "sis",
  "mailNickname": "fineartschool.net"
}
Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "id": "11019",
    "description": "Health Level 1",
    "classCode": "Health 501",
    "createdBy": {
      "user": {
        "displayName": "Susana Rocha",
        "id": "14012",
      }
    },
    "displayName": "Health 1",
    "externalId": "11019",
    "externalName": "Health Level 1",
    "externalSource": "sis",
    "mailNickname": "fineartschool.net"
}