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Method: courses.studentGroups.create

Creates a student group for a course.

This method returns the following error codes:

  • PERMISSION_DENIED if the requesting user is not permitted to create the student group or for access errors.
  • NOT_FOUND if the course does not exist or the requesting user doesn't have access to the course.
  • FAILED_PRECONDITION if creating the student group would exceed the maximum number of student groups per course.

HTTP request

POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses/{courseId}/studentGroups

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
courseId

string

Required. The identifier of the course.

Query parameters

Parameters
previewVersion

enum (PreviewVersion )

Optional. The preview version of the API. This must be set in order to access new API capabilities made available to developers in the Preview Program.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of StudentGroup .

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of StudentGroup .

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.rosters

For more information, see the Authorization guide.

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Last updated 2025年08月06日 UTC.