ManageBac+'s Term Grades in the Primary Years Program have a complex data structure due to the nature of assessment and reporting within that curriculum. Thus, the API responses have a deeply nested properties, different from other term grades in other curricula.
In order to extract the grades ("scores") that are embedded in the response requires understanding how to flatten the nested structure, which can be accomplished by understanding the patterns in the data.
This article is intended to provide developers with a high-level overview in order to parse responses to extract scores.
Term Grade Entities
A term grade entity has three IDs that establish its uniqueness:
- Class ID
- Term ID
- Student ID
The API is accessed via a Class ID and Term ID passed as path parameters, and the responses is an array of records where the Student ID can be obtained:
- `/v2/classes/:class_id/assessments/term/:term_id/term-grades`
To determine valid `term_id` for a given class, please use the `/v2/classes` or `/v2/classes/:class_id` endpoint, which includes a `start_term_id` and `end_term_id` for each class class, and then the `/v2/school/academic-years` endpoint to loop through the terms in-between.
Responses
Each record has nested keys that correspond to different sections on the term grade report, for example `atl_assessment`, `rubrics`, `subjects`, and `units`, highlighted here:
Nested Properties
When the above properties are expanded, the keys provided within each key can differ according to settings. For example, The units structure may have scores embedded inside of different areas of a unit, for example "overall_assessment".
These values correspond to the teacher evaluations entered into the term grade, if enabled. These evaluations can be done on a per-unit basis:
Other scores are deeply nested into the subjects structure. Depending on settings, it can have the path subjects -> stands -> standards -> standards -> criteria.
Other possible paths are:
- subjects -> strands -> criteria
- subjects -> phases -> criteria
- subjects -> strands -> standards -> criteria
- subjects -> strands -> standards -> standards -> criteria