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Method: courses.students.create
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Adds a user as a student of a course.
Domain administrators are permitted to directly add users within their domain as students to courses within their domain. Students are permitted to add themselves to a course using an enrollment code.
This method returns the following error codes:
PERMISSION_DENIED if the requesting user is not permitted to create students in this course or for access errors.NOT_FOUND if the requested course ID does not exist.FAILED_PRECONDITION if the requested user's account is disabled, for the following request errors:
- CourseMemberLimitReached
- CourseNotModifiable
- UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached
- InactiveCourseOwner
ALREADY_EXISTS if the user is already a student or teacher in the course.
HTTP request
POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses/{courseId}/students
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
| Parameters |
courseId |
string
Identifier of the course to create the student in. This identifier can be either the Classroom-assigned identifier or an alias.
|
Query parameters
| Parameters |
enrollmentCode |
string
Enrollment code of the course to create the student in. This code is required if userId corresponds to the requesting user; it may be omitted if the requesting user has administrative permissions to create students for any user.
|
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Student.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Student.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.rosters
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.profile.emails
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.profile.photos
For more information, see the Authorization guide.
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Last updated 2025-04-17 UTC.
[null,null,["Last updated 2025-04-17 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Method: courses.students.create\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Path parameters](#body.PATH_PARAMETERS)\n- [Query parameters](#body.QUERY_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nAdds a user as a student of a course.\n\nDomain administrators are permitted to [directly add](https://developers.google.com/workspace/classroom/guides/manage-users) users within their domain as students to courses within their domain. Students are permitted to add themselves to a course using an enrollment code.\n\nThis method returns the following error codes:\n\n- `PERMISSION_DENIED` if the requesting user is not permitted to create students in this course or for [access errors](/workspace/classroom/reference/Access.Errors).\n- `NOT_FOUND` if the requested course ID does not exist.\n- `FAILED_PRECONDITION` if the requested user's account is disabled, for the following [request errors](/workspace/classroom/reference/Request.Errors):\n - CourseMemberLimitReached\n - CourseNotModifiable\n - UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached\n - InactiveCourseOwner\n- `ALREADY_EXISTS` if the user is already a student or teacher in the course.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses/{courseId}/students`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Path parameters\n\n| Parameters ||\n|------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `courseId` | `string` Identifier of the course to create the student in. This identifier can be either the Classroom-assigned identifier or an [alias](/workspace/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses.aliases#CourseAlias). |\n\n### Query parameters\n\n| Parameters ||\n|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `enrollmentCode` | `string` Enrollment code of the course to create the student in. This code is required if [userId](/workspace/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses.students#Student.FIELDS.user_id) corresponds to the requesting user; it may be omitted if the requesting user has administrative permissions to create students for any user. |\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains an instance of [Student](/workspace/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses.students#Student).\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of [Student](/workspace/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses.students#Student).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires one of the following OAuth scopes:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.rosters`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.profile.emails`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.profile.photos`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authorization guide](/workspace/guides/configure-oauth-consent)."]]
