Creating Quiz Questions

[felkezac]

I am having trouble creating or editing quiz questions. Regardless what I have tried, it generates a blank question. Attempts to edit the question throw error 500. Am I missing something?

One thing I have tried:
bar = {'question_name': 'asdf', 'question_type': 'numerical_question', 'question_text': 'asdfasdf'}
item = q.create_question(**bar)

[bennettscience]

Have you inspected the response from the API? Is it giving an error or returning a properly formatted quiz? A 500 error is something on Instructure's servers and not necessarily related to the library.

[bennettscience]

Looking at your attempt, you need to pass the dict as a keyword argument, not as unpacked kwargs. Try calling q.create_queston(question=bar) and see if that helps.

[bennettscience]

The details about passing keyword arguments to endpoints are here: https://canvasapi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/keyword-args.html

[bennettscience]

Posting as a separate answer for clarity.

The library combines keyword arguments for endpoints which accept different parameters. You should pass dict objects directly to the function either directly or as a variable, like this:

question = {
    "question_name": "Sample question", 
    "question_text": "This is the question text.", 
    "question_type": "numerical_question"
}

q.create_question(question=question)

or

q.create_question(question={
    "question_name": "Sample question", 
    "question_text": "This is the question text.", 
    "question_type": "numerical_question"}
)

This is documented, along with other examples, here: https://canvasapi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/keyword-args.html