Update educationUser properties

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Update the properties of an educationuser object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	❌	❌	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	EduRoster.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

PATCH /education/me
PATCH /education/users/{id}

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that aren't included in the request body maintains their previous values or are recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance, don't include existing values that haven't changed.

Property	Type	Description
displayName	String	Display Name of User
givenName	String	First Name
middleName	String	Middle Name of user
surname	String	Surname of user
mail	String	email address
mobilePhone	String	Mobile number of users
externalSource	string	Where this user was created from. Possible values are: sis, manual, or lms.
mailingAddress	physicalAddress	Mail address of user. Note: type and postOfficeBox aren't supported for educationUser resources.
residenceAddress	physicalAddress	Address where user lives. Note: type and postOfficeBox aren't supported for educationUser resources.
primaryRole	string	Default Role for a user. The user's role might be different in an individual class. Possible values are: student, teacher, enum_sentinel.
student	educationStudent	If the primary role is student, this block contains student specific data.
teacher	educationTeacher	If the primary role is teacher, this block contains teacher specific data.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and updated educationUser object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/education/users/13020
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Rogelio Cazares",
  "givenName": "Rogelio",
  "middleName": "Fernando",
  "surname": "Cazares",
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Models;

var requestBody = new EducationUser
{
	DisplayName = "Rogelio Cazares",
	GivenName = "Rogelio",
	MiddleName = "Fernando",
	Surname = "Cazares",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Education.Users["{educationUser-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc-beta education users patch --education-user-id {educationUser-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Rogelio Cazares",\
  "givenName": "Rogelio",\
  "middleName": "Fernando",\
  "surname": "Cazares",\
}\
'

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewEducationUser()
displayName := "Rogelio Cazares"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
givenName := "Rogelio"
requestBody.SetGivenName(&givenName) 
middleName := "Fernando"
requestBody.SetMiddleName(&middleName) 
surname := "Cazares"
requestBody.SetSurname(&surname) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
users, err := graphClient.Education().Users().ByEducationUserId("educationUser-id").Patch(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

EducationUser educationUser = new EducationUser();
educationUser.setDisplayName("Rogelio Cazares");
educationUser.setGivenName("Rogelio");
educationUser.setMiddleName("Fernando");
educationUser.setSurname("Cazares");
EducationUser result = graphClient.education().users().byEducationUserId("{educationUser-id}").patch(educationUser);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const educationUser = {
  displayName: 'Rogelio Cazares',
  givenName: 'Rogelio',
  middleName: 'Fernando',
  surname: 'Cazares',
};

await client.api('/education/users/13020')
	.version('beta')
	.update(educationUser);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\EducationUser;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new EducationUser();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Rogelio Cazares');
$requestBody->setGivenName('Rogelio');
$requestBody->setMiddleName('Fernando');
$requestBody->setSurname('Cazares');

$result = $graphServiceClient->education()->users()->byEducationUserId('educationUser-id')->patch($requestBody)->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Education

$params = @{
	displayName = "Rogelio Cazares"
	givenName = "Rogelio"
	middleName = "Fernando"
	surname = "Cazares"
}

Update-MgBetaEducationUser -EducationUserId $educationUserId -BodyParameter $params

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.education_user import EducationUser

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = EducationUser(
	display_name = "Rogelio Cazares",
	given_name = "Rogelio",
	middle_name = "Fernando",
	surname = "Cazares",
)

result = await graph_client.education.users.by_education_user_id('educationUser-id').patch(request_body)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "13020",
  "displayName": "Rogelio Cazares",
  "givenName": "Rogelio",
  "middleName": "Fernando",
  "surname": "Cazares",
  "mail": "rogelioC@contoso.com",
  "mobilePhone": "+1 (253) 555-0101",
  "createdBy": {
        "user": {
          "displayName": "Susana Rocha",
          "id": "14012",
        }
  },
  "externalSource": "sis",
  "mailingAddress": {
        "city": "Los Angeles",
        "countryOrRegion": "United States",
        "postalCode": "98055",
        "state": "CA",
        "street": "12345 Main St."
      },
  "primaryRole": "string",
  "residenceAddress": {
        "city": "Los Angeles",
        "countryOrRegion": "United States",
        "postalCode": "98055",
        "state": "CA",
        "street": "12345 Main St."
      },
  "student": {
      "primaryRole": "student",
      "externalId": "13005",
      "birthDate": "2001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    }
}