Ed calls your enrolments courses; this site calls them units to match every other command here. edstem units and its aliases edstem courses and edstem projects are the same command.

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List your units

edstem units defaults to the list verb. --archived includes units Ed has marked archived; without it, only active enrolments are returned.

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Show one unit

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Your identity

Returns your Ed identity plus every enrolled unit, active and archived, in one call.

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How <unit> resolves

Every command that takes a <unit> argument accepts either:
  • the numeric Ed unit ID, or
  • the exact unit code, matched case-insensitively against your enrolments.
A unit code is not required to have any particular shape — the CLI resolves it against your own enrolment list, not a pattern.

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Duplicate codes across years

If the same unit code appears in more than one of your enrolments (a unit you’ve taken in more than one teaching period, for example), a code lookup is ambiguous and the CLI reports every matching unit ID so you can pick one:
Run edstem units list --archived to see the full list with IDs, then pass the numeric ID instead of the code. An unrecognized code is a usage error, not a not-found error, because the CLI is validating your input against enrolments it already has, not asking Ed for a resource. See Errors and exit codes.

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The unit#number thread reference

Threads are addressed two ways: a global thread ID, or a unit plus its per-unit thread number, joined with #:
UNIT#42 resolves UNIT the same way any other <unit> argument does, then asks Ed for thread number 42 within that unit. This reference form is used by threads show, threads read, replies send, and the files commands’ thread: targets — see Threads, Posting, and Files.

Command reference: units

Full syntax for units list and units show.