Canvas Student MCP

Example Use Cases

• 1

  List and search a student's Canvas courses, assignments, quizzes, and to-do items programmatically through an MCP server.

• 2

  Fetch and display inline content from text-based course files (like .txt, .md, .csv, .json) and provide preview or download URLs for PDFs and other binary files.

• 3

  Integrate Canvas course data into conversational workflows via Claude Desktop using API-token or OAuth-based authentication and simple environment configuration.

Description

Provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration that lets Claude Desktop interact with a Canvas LMS instance using API token or OAuth authentication. Agents can list and search courses, filter and fetch assignments, view course content (files, modules, pages), inspect quizzes and to-do items, and access file previews or inline text file content. PDFs and some binary files are provided as preview/download URLs (PDF full-text extraction is limited without an external extraction service). The project includes installer scripts, environment variable configuration, and example Claude Desktop configuration for easy setup.