Practical guides for students and teachers using the Canvas LMS MCP.
Learn how to set up canvaslmsmcpkit as your Canvas AI assistant. Connect Claude and Cursor to check grades, assignments, and manage coursework automatically.
A step-by-step guide for teachers to build a repeatable, end-to-end Canvas grading workflow with an MCP-connected AI agent, from fetching submissions to posting approved grades.
Ask plain-language questions about your Canvas course and get real answers. Use an AI agent over MCP to surface at-risk students, participation gaps, and grade trends from your own data.
Use an AI agent connected to Canvas over MCP to draft, schedule, and send course announcements and reminders across your sections, with a teacher approving every post.
Send targeted, personalized messages to groups of Canvas students straight from Claude using an MCP connection scoped to your own courses. Setup, examples, and guardrails included.
Learn how teachers use an AI agent connected to Canvas over MCP to speed up grading, draft feedback, and post scores, while keeping every decision under your control.
The pass_status tool does the math Canvas refuses to: it tells you whether you have already banked a passing grade in a course, even if you bomb everything left.
Bulk-pull every file from a Canvas course with the download_course_materials tool, so your slides, PDFs, and readings live in one local folder before exam week.
Turn a file, a URL, or a block of text into a real Canvas submission without opening a browser, using the submit_assignment tool and its pre-flight check.
The whats_due tool triages every assignment across every Canvas course into one prioritized list, so nothing slips through the cracks again.
Stop clicking through every Canvas course to find your grades. Learn how the term_snapshot tool pulls your entire semester into one AI answer.