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API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Canvas LMS REST Late Policy API

4 actions 4 updates phrasing extends openapi/canvas-late-policy-api-openapi.yml
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$.info
$.paths['/v1/courses/{id}/late_policy'].get
$.paths['/v1/courses/{id}/late_policy'].post
$.paths['/v1/courses/{id}/late_policy'].patch

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# Generated by API Evangelist (build-phrasing.py). Our phrasing, not observed demand.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Canvas LMS REST Late Policy API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/canvas-late-policy-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
      generator: build-phrasing.py
      label: Generated by API Evangelist
      operations: 3
- target: $.paths['/v1/courses/{id}/late_policy'].get
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: Get a course's late policy
      effect: read
      questions:
      - What late penalty does my course apply?
      - Does a course deduct points for missing submissions?
      instructions:
      - text: Get the late policy for course {id}.
        slots:
          id: path.id
      - text: Show course {id}'s late and missing submission deductions.
        slots:
          id: path.id
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/v1/courses/{id}/late_policy'].post
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: Create a course late policy
      effect: write
      questions:
      - How do I set up an automatic late penalty for a course that has none?
      - Can a course have more than one late policy?
      instructions:
      - text: Create a late policy for course {id} deducting {late_submission_deduction} percent per {late_submission_interval}.
        slots:
          id: path.id
          late_submission_deduction: requestBody.late_policy[late_submission_deduction]
          late_submission_interval: requestBody.late_policy[late_submission_interval]
      - text: Create a late policy for course {id} with a missing submission deduction of {missing_submission_deduction}.
        slots:
          id: path.id
          missing_submission_deduction: requestBody.late_policy[missing_submission_deduction]
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
- target: $.paths['/v1/courses/{id}/late_policy'].patch
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: Change an existing late policy
      effect: write
      questions:
      - Can I change the late deduction on a course that already has a policy?
      - How do I set a minimum grade floor for late work?
      instructions:
      - text: Change course {id}'s existing late deduction to {late_submission_deduction}.
        slots:
          id: path.id
          late_submission_deduction: requestBody.late_policy[late_submission_deduction]
      - text: Set the late work minimum percent for course {id} to {late_submission_minimum_percent}.
        slots:
          id: path.id
          late_submission_minimum_percent: requestBody.late_policy[late_submission_minimum_percent]
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'

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