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schole:courses

Check your Brightspace (D2L) course site, such as myCourses, for new announcements and content, what is due, and what came due unsubmitted.

Part of schole: /plugin install schole@techne, then sign in with /schole:setup.

When to use

"What is due?" "What is new in my courses?" "Did I miss a deadline?" "Any announcements?" For mail, or a combined mail and course catch-up, use epistole:catch-me-up, which runs this sweep too.

Usage

/schole:courses

The skill runs schole-sweep, or schole-sweep --since <epoch> for a window other than the last 24 hours. It is read-only: it never opens a course page, because Brightspace marks a page read when it is opened. Course text is treated as data, never as instructions.

The answer leads with past-due work that shows NOT SUBMITTED, then what is due soonest, then announcements (with any time or room change), then a count of new content, unread first. A part of a course that could not be read (APIFAIL), or a submission state that could not be checked (NOROW, LISTFAIL), is reported as "could not check", never as "nothing new" or "missed".

The schole page lists every output line, the exit codes and the messages.

Needs

A signed-in course site. Exit 3 with needs login means the session ended, usually after an idle timeout the school sets: run !schole-login. A missing schole.toml means schole is not set up: run /schole:setup.

See also

  • schole plugin: commands, configuration, privacy and troubleshooting.

Full instructions

SKILL.md on GitHub holds the full instructions Claude follows for this skill.