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Method: courses.create
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Creates a course.
The user specified in ownerId is the owner of the created course and added as a teacher. A non-admin requesting user can only create a course with themselves as the owner. Domain admins can create courses owned by any user within their domain.
This method returns the following error codes:
PERMISSION_DENIED if the requesting user is not permitted to create courses or for access errors.NOT_FOUND if the primary teacher is not a valid user.FAILED_PRECONDITION if the course owner's account is disabled or for the following request errors:
- UserCannotOwnCourse
- UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached
- CourseTitleCannotContainUrl
ALREADY_EXISTS if an alias was specified in the id and already exists.
HTTP request
POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Course.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Course.
Authorization scopes
Requires the following OAuth scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.courses
For more information, see the Authorization guide.
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Last updated 2025-08-06 UTC.
[null,null,["Last updated 2025-08-06 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Method: courses.create\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nCreates a course.\n\nThe user specified in `ownerId` is the owner of the created course and added as a teacher. A non-admin requesting user can only create a course with themselves as the owner. Domain admins can create courses owned by any user within their domain.\n\nThis method returns the following error codes:\n\n- `PERMISSION_DENIED` if the requesting user is not permitted to create courses or for [access errors](/workspace/classroom/reference/Access.Errors).\n- `NOT_FOUND` if the primary teacher is not a valid user.\n- `FAILED_PRECONDITION` if the course owner's account is disabled or for the following [request errors](/workspace/classroom/reference/Request.Errors):\n - UserCannotOwnCourse\n - UserGroupsMembershipLimitReached\n - CourseTitleCannotContainUrl\n- `ALREADY_EXISTS` if an alias was specified in the `id` and already exists.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://classroom.googleapis.com/v1/courses`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains an instance of [Course](/workspace/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses#Course).\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of [Course](/workspace/classroom/reference/rest/v1/courses#Course).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires the following OAuth scope:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/classroom.courses`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authorization guide](/workspace/guides/configure-oauth-consent)."]]
