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Scenario

XYZ Corporation, is a global conglomerate that works in the domain of education and collaborates with different institutions, NGOs and academicians around the world. The organization has adopted Sunbird to cater to evolving training needs to amplify learning opportunities. The organization has provided open access to its existing content assets. The organization also offers certification courses to candidates.

Prerequisites

1. API Key to access Sunbird APIs. To create an API key refer to How to generate a Sunbird API key

2. An API client to make API calls. For instance curl or POSTMAN. For details on using postman refer Using Postman

3. Access to the Content API

4. Content should be created and available

Taskflow

The content on Sunbird can be created using Inbuilt Content Editor as well as through APIs. Content in sunbird can be of different types:

1. Courses

2. Collections

3. Resources

4. Lesson Plan

5. Book

This document explains the process of creating content using APIs. The sequence of tasks the organization needs to follow to complete the process of course creation through APIs include:

1. Creating Course using Create CourseAPI

2. Path for creating a course:/course/v1/create

Request Body

  {
"request": {
  "course": {
  "name": "training course",
  "description": "training content for upskilling employees",
  "creator": "Creator01 user",
  "createdBy": "159e93d1-da0c-4231-be94-e75b0c226d7c",
  "organisation": [
    "XYZ Corporation",
    "XYZ"
  ],
  "createdFor": [
    "01232002070124134414",
    "012315809814749184151"
  ],
  "framework": "NCF",
  "resourceType": "Course"
  }
}   }

Response Body

  {
"id": "api.course.create",
  "ver": "1.0",
  "ts": "2018-11-19T10:56:30.091Z",
  "params": {
    "resmsgid": "c5111ae0-ebe9-11e8-ac68-f9207ddcbbef",
    "msgid": "c5007910-ebe9-11e8-b46e-897f51258085",
    "status": "successful",
    "err": null,
    "errmsg": null
  },
  "responseCode": "OK",
  "result": {

    "course_id": "do_2126371839184814081930",

    "versionKey": "1542624990048"
  }
}

1. Adding a content to a course:

/course/v1/hierarchy/update

Request Body

  {
  "request": {
    "data": {
      "nodesModified": {
        "6137dc8b-0e78-4676-b199-1040371b5c19": {
          "isNew": true,
          "root": false,
          "metadata": {
            "mimeType": "application/vnd.ekstep.content-collection",
            "contentType": "CourseUnit",
            "name": "Untitled Course Unit",
            "code": "6137dc8b-0e78-4676-b199-1040371b5c19",
            "framework": "NCFCOPY"
          }
        }
      },
      "hierarchy": {
        "do_2126371839184814081930": {
          "name": "training course",
          "contentType": "Course",
          "children": [
            "6137dc8b-0e78-4676-b199-1040371b5c19"
          ],
          "root": true
        },
        "6137dc8b-0e78-4676-b199-1040371b5c19": {
          "name": "Untitled Course Unit",
          "contentType": "CourseUnit",
          "children": [
            "do_112635138121129984111"
          ],
          "root": false
        },
        "do_112635138121129984111": {
          "name": "new resource content",
          "contentType": "Resource",
          "children": [],
          "root": false
        }
      },
      "lastUpdatedBy": "3b34c469-460b-4c20-8756-c5fce2de9e69"
    }
  }
}

Response Body

  {
    "id": "api.hierarchy.update",
    "ver": "1.0",
    "ts": "2018-11-19T11:51:14.207Z",
    "params": {
        "resmsgid": "6a8cfaf0-ebf1-11e8-90ad-05662c0d1af3",
        "msgid": "6a5f8250-ebf1-11e8-84ae-a1fffa26981c",
        "status": "successful",
        "err": null,
        "errmsg": null
    },
    "responseCode": "OK",
    "result": {
        "content_id": "do_2126371839184814081930"
    }
}

Concepts covered

Course Creation

Additional Topics

Once the portal is updated successfully, the organization administrator can assign a registered user as the badge issuer to certify all the users who have undertaken and completed the course. For details on creating badges refer Creating Badges

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