How can I filter or sort classes when listing them via the Graph for Education API

Question

When calling the List Classes endpoint for a school that is part of a district, the API returns thousands of classes, old and new, in no particular order.

We need to either filter that list or sort it by descending order of "last updated" or "created" date, or any other way to get classes for a single school or a term. I did not find any property on a Class object to work with, and none of our customers seem to be using the "Term" property. Or maybe this property is not returned by default when listing classes?

For some customers, we manage to filter by startsWith on the displayName, ExternalId or externalName, but this is only possible when the school uses scripts to generate classes.

Answer 1

@Martin Plante - We got received an updates from engineering team saying thatthe createdDateTime property of the group isn't shown in the List Classes API, and you can only sort by displayName.
The term should be returned by default if it's been set by SDS(School Data Sync).

As old courses build up, it gets hard to find current courses via the API. That's why SDS lets you 'Mark group expired' at the end of a term, adding 'EXT' to the group/class name for easy filtering.
Ref Doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/schooldatasync/azure-ad-group-cleanup

Thanks, 

Nivedipa

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