No way to retrieve total possible score on assignment

[controversial]

There is no predefined way to get the total possible score on an assignment to accompany the score. It is sometimes possible to find this value via 100*$assignment->score/$assignment->percent, however this will not work if a student received a grade of 0% on an assignment, in this case it is impossible to calculate the total possible points.

[unlobito]

Unfortunately, the PowerSchool API does not return the actual maximum score for the assignment.

Here's an example of the data returned by the API for an assignment:

[1] => stdClass Object
    (
        [assignmentId] => 98227
        [collected] => false
        [comment] => 
        [exempt] => false
        [id] => 1919903
        [late] => false
        [letterGrade] => 80
        [missing] => false
        [percent] => 80
        [score] => 40
        [scoretype] => 0
    )

As you can see, there's no way to find the maximum score other than guessing (as PowerAPI currently does).

[controversial]

What is the "PowerSchool API" you're referring to, besides this one?

[unlobito]

The /pearson-rest/ endpoints used by the mobile apps (which PowerAPI uses to grab information from the server).

You can find more information on the services exposed by pearson-rest at http://sales.powerschool.com/pearson-rest/services/listServices (or by looking through the PowerAPI source code).

[controversial]

Ok, thanks.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:28 PM Henri Watson notifications@github.com wrote:

The /pearson-rest/ endpoints used by the mobile apps (which PowerAPI uses to grab information from the server).

You can find more information on the services exposed by pearson-rest at http://sales.powerschool.com/pearson-rest/services/listServices (or by looking through the PowerAPI source code).

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