Run assignment unit tests. A manual test can also be run if preferrred: Create a new assignment in a course. Note the id of the course and the assignment. Enrol a teacher and students into the course In the assignment "grade" settings, set "Use marking workflow" and "Use marking allocation" to Yes Following the instructions within Moodle, create a REST web service and add the function mod_assign_get_assignments. Give the teacher the capabilities as described in the Web Services Overview -> Users as clients with token. Login as the teacher and create/obtain their security key Use the Moodle local Web service template plugin to call the web service function. The client.php file should be as shown below: client.php $token = 'f4458487f63c0558484f4505d61f1245'; // the teachers security key $domainname = 'http://localhost/moodledev'; // the Moodle server $functionname = 'mod_assign_get_assignments'; // the web service function we are testing $courseids[] = 2; // the course id $params = array('courseids'=>$courseids); // the parameters // The REST web service call header('Content-Type: text/plain'); $serverurl = $domainname . '/webservice/rest/server.php'. '?wstoken=' . $token. '&wsfunction='.$functionname; require_once('./curl.php'); $curl = new curl; $resp = $curl->post($serverurl, $params); print_r($resp); Verify the results by searching for the assignment id and course id. The values of "markingallocation" and "markingworkflow" must both be 1.