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Method: courses.studentGroups.create
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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 2025-08-06 UTC.
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