School

This API is used to provide access to school information such as users, academics, admissions, athletics, content, lists, and general school info.

GET

Academics sections by teacher

Returns a collection of sections for the specified teacher_id.
Requires at least one of the following roles in the Education Management system:

  • Academic Group Manager
  • Teacher

Try it

Request URL

Request parameters

Parameter Required Type Description
teacher_id Property is required integer

The ID of the teacher to get sections for.

school_year string

The school year. Corresponds to school_year_label in the Year list.

Request headers

Header Required Type Description
Bb-Api-Subscription-Key Property is required string Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.
Authorization Property is required string OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code.

Response 200 OK

Success

{
  "count": 1,
  "value": [
    {
      "teachers": [
        {
          "id": 4567,
          "head": true,
          "name": "John Smith",
          "firstname": "John",
          "lastname": "Smith",
          "preferred_name": "Jon",
          "formatted_name": "Smith, Jon",
          "email": "jonsmith@example.com",
          "cell_phone": "555-555-5555"
        }
      ],
      "id": 123,
      "course_code": "123",
      "duration": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Duration Name"
      },
      "lead_section_id": 2,
      "name": "Section name",
      "offering_id": 1,
      "parent_section_id": 2,
      "room_id": 12,
      "school_year": "2017-2018",
      "section_identifier": "Section Identifier"
    }
  ]
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "The number of items in the collection",
      "format": "int32",
      "readOnly": true
    },
    "next_link": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "For paginated responses, the URI for the next page of results",
      "nullable": true
    },
    "value": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "teachers": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "id": {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "description": "The user ID for the teacher",
                  "format": "int32",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "head": {
                  "type": "boolean",
                  "description": "The head teacher indicator",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The firstname and lastname of the teacher",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "firstname": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The first name of the teacher",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "lastname": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The last name of the teacher",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "preferred_name": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The teachers preferred name",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "formatted_name": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The formatted name of the teacher.  If the teacher has a preferred name, it is used in place of the first name.",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "email": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The teacher's email address",
                  "nullable": true
                },
                "cell_phone": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "The teacher's cellular phone",
                  "nullable": true
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": false,
              "description": "Academic Teacher Model"
            },
            "description": "The list of teachers for this section",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "id": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The ID of the section",
            "format": "int32"
          },
          "course_code": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The identifier used to reference a course; the Course Code is a user-entered value",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "duration": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "The ID of the duration",
                "format": "int32"
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "The starting term of the section",
                "nullable": true
              }
            },
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "description": "Duration Model"
          },
          "lead_section_id": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The ID of the first section in a series of terms",
            "format": "int32",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The name of the section",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "offering_id": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The ID of an offered course",
            "format": "int32",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "parent_section_id": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The ID that leads you back to the offered section",
            "format": "int32",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "room_id": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The ID of the room the section is held in",
            "format": "int32",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "school_year": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The school year date range in which the section occurs",
            "nullable": true
          },
          "section_identifier": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The identifier used to differentiate between multiple sections that contain a course; the Section Identifier is a user-entered value",
            "nullable": true
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "description": "Academics Section Model"
      },
      "description": "The set of items included in the response. This may be a subset of the items in the collection",
      "nullable": true
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "description": "A Collection"
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections?school_year={string}"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["school_year"] = "{string}";
            var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections");

            builder.setParameter("school_year", "{string}");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
            request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");

            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity)); 
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "school_year": "{string}",
        };

        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"school_year={string}",
                      ];

    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
    [_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);

        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }

        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }

        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }

    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
   'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
   'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'school_year' => '{string}',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'school_year': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'school_year': '{string}',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/academics/teachers/{teacher_id}/sections')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'school_year' => '{string}'
})
if query.length > 0
  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
  else
    uri.query = query
  end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)

# Request headers
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'

# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

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