Google Classroom API

Name: Google Classroom API
Brand: Google Classroom API
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Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Google Classroom API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Google Classroom API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Google Classroom API.

Create and update Classroom courses and manage course aliases for SIS sync

Enroll, list, and remove students and teachers in a course

Post announcements and coursework with attached materials and due dates

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For Agents

Manage Google Classroom courses, rosters, coursework, announcements, and submissions across teacher and student flows.

Use for: Create a new Google Classroom course, List all students in a Classroom course, Post an announcement to a Classroom course, Create a Classroom assignment with a due date

Not supported: Does not host video meetings, manage Workspace user accounts, or store attachment file contents - use for Google Classroom course, roster, coursework, and submission operations only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Google Classroom API for, with concrete tasks.

★ SIS-to-Classroom Roster Sync

School districts sync rosters from a Student Information System into Google Classroom by creating courses with stable course aliases and reconciling student and teacher membership nightly. The aliases endpoints let the SIS use its own ids while keeping Classroom in sync. Most integrations use a service account with domain-wide delegation to act on behalf of teachers.

Create a course with id stub via POST /v1/courses, then POST /v1/courses/{courseId}/aliases with alias=d:district_id_12345 and add a teacher via /v1/courses/{courseId}/teachers.

Curriculum Publishing

Education-tech vendors push pre-built lessons, quizzes, and reading assignments into a teacher's Classroom course as coursework with attached Drive resources or YouTube links. The API supports scheduled publication and per-student materials. This eliminates teachers re-creating content manually each term.

POST /v1/courses/{courseId}/courseWork with title="Week 3 Reading", workType=ASSIGNMENT, dueDate, and a Drive attachment.

Grading and Feedback Loops

Schools build grading dashboards that read student submissions, set assigned grades, and return work to students at scale. The submissions endpoints expose state transitions (TURNED_IN, RETURNED, RECLAIMED) and allow updates to draftGrade and assignedGrade with patch masks. Teachers see results immediately in their Classroom UI.

PATCH /v1/courses/{courseId}/courseWork/{courseWorkId}/studentSubmissions/{id} with assignedGrade=85 then POST :return.

AI Agent Teaching Assistant via Jentic

An AI agent through Jentic acts as a teaching assistant - listing pending submissions, suggesting feedback drafts for the teacher to review, posting announcements, and creating follow-up assignments. Jentic isolates the Workspace OAuth credentials so the agent never holds the teacher's refresh token directly.

Through Jentic, search classroom_courses_announcements_create, load schema, and execute it for course 12345 with text "Reminder: project due Friday".

Key Endpoints

95 endpoints — the google classroom api gives schools, education-tech vendors, and content publishers programmatic access to courses, rosters, coursework, announcements, submissions, grades, and add-on attachments inside google classroom.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/v1/courses

Create a Classroom course

GET

/v1/courses

List courses for the caller

POST

/v1/courses/{courseId}/aliases

Create an external alias for a course

POST

/v1/courses/{courseId}/announcements

Post an announcement to a course

POST

/v1/courses/{courseId}/courseWork

Create coursework (assignment, material, or question)

GET

/v1/courses/{courseId}/announcements

List announcements in a course

POST

/v1/courses

Create a Classroom course

GET

/v1/courses

List courses for the caller

POST

/v1/courses/{courseId}/aliases

Create an external alias for a course

POST

/v1/courses/{courseId}/announcements

Post an announcement to a course

POST

/v1/courses/{courseId}/courseWork

Create coursework (assignment, material, or question)

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Workspace OAuth credentials or service account key with classroom scopes are stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. The agent receives only short-lived access tokens and the refresh token and service account JSON never enter its prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'create a Classroom assignment', and Jentic returns the courses courseWork create operation with its parameter schema, including workType and submissionModificationMode enums, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

FAQs

Specific to using Google Classroom API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Google Classroom API use?

It uses OAuth 2.0 with one or more classroom.* scopes, scoped per resource (courses, rosters, coursework, announcements). Service accounts with domain-wide delegation are common for SIS sync. Through Jentic, the credential is stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and the agent receives only short-lived scoped access tokens.

Can I create a Classroom course via the API?

Yes. POST /v1/courses with name, ownerId, and optionally description and section. Add a stable external id by POSTing /v1/courses/{courseId}/aliases with an alias starting with d: for domain-scoped aliases or p: for project-scoped aliases.

What are the rate limits for the Google Classroom API?

Google enforces per-project quotas (typically thousands of read requests per minute and hundreds of writes) and per-user limits to prevent abuse. Coursework creation and submission patch operations sit under the lower per-user quota, so batch where possible and back off on 429.

How do I post an announcement through Jentic?

Use the Jentic search query "post announcement to Google Classroom" to discover the courses.announcements.create operation, load its schema, and execute it with the courseId and the text body. Run pip install jentic to get started.

Can the API grade and return assignments?

Yes. PATCH a studentSubmission with assignedGrade and an updateMask, then POST :return on the submission to push the grade and feedback back to the student. The student sees the result in the Classroom UI immediately.

Is the Google Classroom API free?

It is free for Google Workspace for Education customers. There is no per-call charge from Google, though some scopes require admin approval before they can be used by third-party apps.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Google Classroom API?

Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted, you set the rules that decide which Classroom operations and credentials your agent may use. Since the API puts the course in the URL path, such as /v1/courses/{courseId}/announcements and /v1/courses/{courseId}/courseWork, a rule can pin your agent to a single course so it can post announcements and coursework there and nowhere else. You also pick the exact operations it may call, so higher-risk ones like managing course aliases stay out of reach unless you explicitly add them.

Google Classroom API

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Use Cases

Key Endpoints

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