Canvas

online courses

OAUTH2API

Canvas is a learning management system supporting online courses, assignments, grading, and collaboration, widely used by schools and universities for virtual classrooms

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Available tools

574

Abort Quiz Report Generation

Aborts the generation of a quiz report or removes a previously generated one. Use when you need to cancel a report generation request or clean up an old report.

Add conversation message

Tool to add a message to an existing Canvas conversation. Use when sending a follow-up message to a conversation thread with specified recipients.

Add course to favorites

Tool to add a course to the current user's favorites. Use when you need to favorite a course for the authenticated user. If the course is already in the user's favorites, nothing happens.

Add group to favorites

Tool to add a group to the current user's favorites. Use when you need to mark a group as favorite for the authenticated user. If the group is already in the user's favorites, nothing happens.

Add last attended date

Tool to add or update the last attended date for a student enrollment in a course. Use when tracking student attendance by recording the last date a student attended the course.

Add recipients to conversation

Tool to add recipients to an existing group conversation. Use when you need to add new participants to an ongoing conversation. Response includes the latest message showing who was added.

Add users to content share

Tool to send a previously created content share to additional users. Use when you need to add more recipients to an existing content share.

Answer quiz questions

Tool to provide or update answers to quiz questions for a quiz submission. Use when submitting answers for a quiz attempt. Requires a valid validation_token from quiz submission creation and the latest attempt number.

Assign unassigned members to group category

Tool to assign unassigned members to groups within a group category. Use when you need to distribute users who are not yet in any group within the category. Returns a Progress object for async tracking by default, or group memberships when sync=true.

Clear Course Nicknames

Tool to remove all stored course nicknames for the current user. Use when you need to clear all custom course name preferences.

Close notification for user

Tool to excuse/close an account notification for the current user. Use when the current user no longer wants to see a specific notification. If the `remove` parameter is set to true, the notification is permanently destroyed for all users (admin action).

Conclude, deactivate, or delete an enrollment

Tool to conclude, deactivate, or delete an enrollment in a Canvas course. Use when you need to end or remove a user's enrollment. If the task argument isn't given, the enrollment will be concluded.

Copy File to Folder

Copies an existing Canvas file to a specified destination folder. Use when you need to duplicate a file to another location.

Copy Folder

Tool to copy a folder to another folder in Canvas. Use when you need to duplicate a folder structure with its contents to a destination folder.

Create account notification

Creates a global notification within a Canvas account, ensuring `end_at` is after `start_at` and any specified `notification_roles` are valid.

Create a user content migration

Tool to create a content migration for a Canvas user. Use when you need to import content into a user's files from various sources (zip files, cartridges, etc.). If the migration requires a file upload, the actual processing starts once the file upload completes.

Create appointment group

Creates a new appointment group in Canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.

Create an assignment

Creates a new assignment within a specified course in Canvas LMS.

Create assignment via GraphQL

Tool to create a new assignment in a Canvas course using the GraphQL API. Use when you need to create assignments with detailed configuration options including peer reviews, moderated grading, or assignment overrides.

Create assignment group

Create a new assignment group for a course. Use when you need to add a new assignment group to organize assignments in a Canvas course.