I am building an app for my school and I had read a little on Canvas's API and was wondering if anyone on here has played with it.
I am trying to make part of my account validation check whether or not a person is a student (and not a teacher/admin/etc.) but can't find a part of the API to help me with this.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Users in canvas can have multiple roles, that are different based on the context the user is in. For example a user could be a teacher in one course and a student in another. Or a user could be an admin in one account, and not another.
There are two different endpoints you will need to look at to check what roles a user has.
Enrollments: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/enrollments.html
An enrollment object in canvas will tell you what courses a user is in, and their role in the course.
Admins: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/admins.html#method.admins.index
The admin endpoint can give you a list of the admins in an account. But you will need an access token that has admin permissions to access this API.