openapi: 3.2.0 info: title: Canvas LMS REST Late Policy API version: v1 summary: The complete Canvas LMS REST API, converted from the Swagger 1.2 documents Instructure publishes under https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/. description: The Canvas LMS REST API covers courses, assignments, quizzes, grades, users, enrollments, accounts, files, modules, rubrics, submissions, SIS imports, LTI, analytics and account administration. contact: name: Instructure Canvas url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/ license: name: AGPL-3.0 url: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/master/LICENSE servers: - url: https://canvas.instructure.com/api description: Instructure-hosted Canvas (canvas.instructure.com) - url: https://{canvas_host}/api description: Any Canvas instance; Canvas is multi-tenant and self-hostable, so the host is the institution's Canvas domain. variables: canvas_host: default: canvas.instructure.com description: Your institution's Canvas hostname, e.g. school.instructure.com security: - bearerAuth: [] - oauth2: [] tags: - name: Late Policy x-resource: late_policy externalDocs: url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/late_policy.html paths: /v1/courses/{id}/late_policy: get: tags: - Late Policy operationId: get_late_policy summary: Get a late policy description: Returns the late policy for a course. parameters: - name: id in: path schema: type: string required: true description: ID responses: '200': description: Success, no content returned externalDocs: url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/late_policy.html post: tags: - Late Policy operationId: create_late_policy summary: Create a late policy description: 'Create a late policy. If the course already has a late policy, a bad_request is returned since there can only be one late policy per course.' parameters: - name: id in: path schema: type: string required: true description: ID requestBody: required: false content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: late_policy[missing_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the missing submission deduction late policy. late_policy[missing_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct from a missing submission. late_policy[late_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission deduction late policy. late_policy[late_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct per the late submission interval. late_policy[late_submission_interval]: type: string description: The interval for late policies. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission minimum percent for a late policy. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent]: type: number description: The minimum grade a submissions can have in percentage points. application/x-www-form-urlencoded: schema: type: object properties: late_policy[missing_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the missing submission deduction late policy. late_policy[missing_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct from a missing submission. late_policy[late_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission deduction late policy. late_policy[late_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct per the late submission interval. late_policy[late_submission_interval]: type: string description: The interval for late policies. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission minimum percent for a late policy. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent]: type: number description: The minimum grade a submissions can have in percentage points. responses: '200': description: Success, no content returned externalDocs: url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/late_policy.html patch: tags: - Late Policy operationId: patch_late_policy summary: Patch a late policy description: Patch a late policy. No body is returned upon success. parameters: - name: id in: path schema: type: string required: true description: ID requestBody: required: false content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: late_policy[missing_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the missing submission deduction late policy. late_policy[missing_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct from a missing submission. late_policy[late_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission deduction late policy. late_policy[late_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct per the late submission interval. late_policy[late_submission_interval]: type: string description: The interval for late policies. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission minimum percent for a late policy. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent]: type: number description: The minimum grade a submissions can have in percentage points. application/x-www-form-urlencoded: schema: type: object properties: late_policy[missing_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the missing submission deduction late policy. late_policy[missing_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct from a missing submission. late_policy[late_submission_deduction_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission deduction late policy. late_policy[late_submission_deduction]: type: number description: How many percentage points to deduct per the late submission interval. late_policy[late_submission_interval]: type: string description: The interval for late policies. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent_enabled]: type: boolean description: Whether to enable the late submission minimum percent for a late policy. late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent]: type: number description: The minimum grade a submissions can have in percentage points. responses: '200': description: Success, no content returned externalDocs: url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/late_policy.html components: securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: 'Canvas OAuth2 access token sent as "Authorization: Bearer ". See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html' oauth2: type: oauth2 description: Canvas OAuth2. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html and https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth_endpoints.html flows: authorizationCode: authorizationUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth tokenUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token refreshUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token scopes: {} externalDocs: description: Canvas LMS REST API Documentation url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/ x-generated-from: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json x-provenance: method: derived derived_by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline (Swagger 1.2 -> OpenAPI 3.1 conversion) source: openapi/_original/swagger-1.2/*.json (144 verbatim first-party Swagger 1.2 documents) source_url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json fetched: '2026-09-05' http_status: 200