Classroom Guardians

Classroom - Guardians

• API documentation
• Definitions
• Create guardian invitations
• Delete guardian invitations
• Display guardian invitations
• Delete guardians
• Synchronize guardians
• Display guardians, indented keys and values
• Display guardians, CSV format

API documentation

• https://developers.google.com/classroom/reference/rest/v1/userProfiles.guardianInvitations
• https://developers.google.com/classroom/reference/rest/v1/userProfiles.guardians

Definitions

<DomainName> ::= <String>(.<String>)+
<EmailAddress> ::= <String>@<DomainName>
<UniqueID> ::= id:<String>
<GuardianItem> ::= <EmailAddress>|<UniqueID>|<String>
<GuardianItemList> ::= "<GuardianItem>(,<GuardianItem>)*"
<GuardianEntity> ::=
        <GuardianList> | <FileSelector> | <CSVFileSelector> | <CSVkmdSelector> | <CSVDataSelector>
        See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Collections-of-Items
<StudentItem> ::= <EmailAddress>|<UniqueID>|<String>
<GuardianInvitationID> ::= <String>
<GuardianInvitationIDList> ::= "<GuardianInvitationId>(,<GuardianInvitationID>)*"
<GuardianInvitationIDEntity> ::=
        <GuardianInvitationIDList> | <FileSelector> | <CSVFileSelector> | <CSVkmdSelector> | <CSVDataSelector>
        See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Collections-of-Items
<GuardianState> ::= complete|pending
<GuardianStateList> ::= "<GuardianState>(,<GuardianState>)*"

Create guardian invitations

Selected students, new style

gam <UserTypeEntity> create|add guardian|guardianinvite|inviteguardian <GuardianEntity>

Selected students, old style

gam create guardian|guardianinvite|inviteguardian <EmailAddress> <StudentItem>

Delete guardian invitations

Selected students, new style

gam <UserTypeEnfity> cancel guardianinvitation|guardianinvitations <GuardianInvitationIDEntity>
gam <UserTypeEntity> delete guardian|guardians <GuardianEntity> invitations
gam <UserTypeEntity> clear guardian|guardians invitations

Selected students, old style

gam cancel guardianinvitation|guardianinvitations <GuardianInvitationID> <StudentItem>
gam delete guardian|guardians <GuardianItem> <StudentItem> invitations

Display guardian invitations

All students

gam show guardian|guardians invitations [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [showstudentemails] [formatjson]
gam print guardian|guardians [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] invitations [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [showstudentemails] [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

The Classroom API does not return the student email address, use the showstudentemails option to get the student email address. This requires an additional API call per student.

Selected students, new style

gam <UserTypeEntity> show guardian|guardians invitations [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [formatjson]
gam <UserTypeEntity> print guardian|guardians [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] invitations [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

Selected students, old style

gam show guardian|guardians invitations [showstudentemails] [states <GuardianStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [student <StudentItem>] [<UserTypeEntity>]
        [formatjson]
gam print guardian|guardians [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] invitations [showstudentemails] [states <GuardianStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [student <StudentItem>] [<UserTypeEntity>]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

By default, Gam displays informations for all guardian invitations; you can limit the display with the following options.

• states <GuardianStateList> - Display guardian invitations with the specified state
• invitedguardian <EmailAddress> - Display guardians invitations with <EmailAddress>

Delete guardians

Selected students, new style

gam <UserTypeEntity> delete guardian|guardians <GuardianEntity> [accepted|invitations|all]
gam <UserTypeEntity> clear guardian|guardians [accepted|invitations|all]

• accepted - Delete accepted invitations
• invitations - Delete pending invitations
• all - Delete accepted and pending invitations

Selected students, old style

gam delete guardian|guardians <GuardianItem> <StudentItem>

Synchronize guardians

Gam deletes any pending guardian invitations and accepted guardians that are not in <GuardianEntity> and sends invitations to the members in <GuardianEntity> that don't have a pending invitation or have not accepted.

gam <UserTypeEntity> sync guardian|guardians <GuardianEntity>

Example

Your school SIS produces a CSV file, StudentGuardians.csv, each evening with two columns: Student,Guardian. There is no indication as to what changes have been made from the night before. The following command will perform the necessary changes.

gam csvkmd users StudentGuardians.csv keyfield Student datafield Guardian sync guardians csvdata Guardian

Display guardians, indented keys and values

All students

gam show guardian|guardians [accepted|invitations|all]
        [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [showstudentemails] [formatjson]

Selected students, new style

gam <UserTypeEntity> show guardian|guardians [accepted|invitations|all]
        [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [formatjson]

Selected students, old style

gam show guardian|guardians [accepted|invitations|all] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [student <StudentItem>] [<UserTypeEntity>]
        [showstudentemails] [formatjson]

Use these options to control what information is displayed:

• accepted - Display accepted guardians; this is the default
• invitations - Display invitations
  • states <GuardianInvitationStateList> - Filter the invitations by state
• all - Display accepted guardians and pending invitations
  • states <GuardianInvitationStateList> - Filter the invitations by state

By default, Gam displays informations for all guardians; you can limit the display with the following option:

• invitedguardian <EmailAddress> - Display guardians with <EmailAddress>.

The Classroom API does not return the student email address, use the showstudentemails option to get the student email address. This requires an additional API call per student.

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

Display guardians, CSV format

All students

gam print guardian|guardians [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] [accepted|invitations|all]
        [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [showstudentemails] [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

Selected students, new style

gam <UserTypeEntity> print guardian|guardians [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] [accepted|invitations|all]
        [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

Selected students, old style

gam print guardian|guardians [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] [accepted|invitations|all]
        [states <GuardianInvitationStateList>] [invitedguardian <EmailAddress>]
        [student <StudentItem>] [<UserTypeEntity>]
        [showstudentemails] [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

Use these options to control what information is displayed:

• accepted - Display accepted guardians; this is the default
• invitations - Display invitations
  • states <GuardianInvitationStateList> - Filter the invitations by state
• all - Display accepted guardians and pending invitations
  • states <GuardianInvitationStateList> - Filter the invitations by state

By default, Gam displays informations for all guardians; you can limit the display with the following options.

• invitedguardian <EmailAddress> - Display guardians with <EmailAddress>.

The Classroom API does not return the student email address, use the showstudentemails option to get the student email address. This requires an additional API call per student.

By default, Gam displays the information as columns of fields; the following option causes the output to be in JSON format,

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.