Integration · Education
AI agents for Canvas LMS
List courses, students and teachers, read and create assignments, read submissions and grade or comment on them, post course announcements and send Canvas inbox messages in an institution's Canvas LMS.
- Actions
- 10
- Read
- 6
- Write
- 4
Actions
What your agents can do in Canvas LMS
List courses, students and teachers, read and create assignments, read submissions and grade or comment on them, post course announcements and send Canvas inbox messages in an institution's Canvas LMS, as the person whose access token is used.
Read 6
Look things up. Nothing changes.
List courses
Lists the courses the connected user is enrolled in (as teacher, student, TA, observer or designer), optionally only one role or enrollment state.
Get a course
Reads one course by its ID: name, code, state, start and end dates, time zone, default view and, if asked, the term, syllabus, teachers and student count.
List people in a course
Lists the people in a course, optionally only students, teachers, TAs, observers or designers, or those whose name, login or email matches search_term (at least 2 characters).
List assignments
Lists a course's assignments, optionally those whose title contains search_term or only one bucket.
List submissions
Lists the submissions in a course: for all students (student_ids all, the default) or some, for all or some assignments, optionally only those in one state.
List announcements
Lists the announcements posted in one or more courses, newest first, optionally between two dates (Canvas defaults to the last 14 days) or only the latest per course.
Write 4
Create, change or send.
Create an assignment
Creates an assignment in a course with a name and optionally an HTML description, points, grading type, submission types, due, unlock and lock times and an assignment group.
Grade or comment on a submission
Sets a student's grade on an assignment and/or adds a comment they can read.
Post a course announcement
Posts an announcement (an HTML message with a title) to everyone in a course, which Canvas also notifies by their notification settings.
Send an inbox message
Sends a Canvas inbox (Conversations) message to one or more users by user ID, as the connected user.
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your Canvas LMS account.
What you enter
- Access token
Settings
- Canvas address
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Canvas LMS data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can list courses, get a course or list people in a course in Canvas LMS, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Canvas LMS
Have the agent create an assignment or grade or comment on a submission in Canvas LMS as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Canvas LMS and Slack: it can list courses in Canvas LMS and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
Works well with
More Education tools
- Moodle10 actionsSearch courses, list a course's participants, assignments, submissions and grades, find users, grade assignments and send Moodle messages on an institution's own Moodle site, through its REST web services.
- Blackboard Learn9 actionsWork with a school's Blackboard Learn site: find courses and users, see who is enrolled in a course and which courses a person takes, read a course's content outline, grade columns and a student's grades.
- Google Classroom9 actionsWork with a teacher's Google Classroom classes: list classes, their students and teachers, assignments and student submissions.
- Teachable10 actionsList and read courses, look up students and their course progress, create students, enroll or unenroll them, and read sales transactions in a Teachable school, through the school's Admin API key.
- Thinkific10 actionsList courses and products, find and create students, enroll them in courses, read and change enrollments (progress, completion, expiry), and read orders in a Thinkific school, through the site's Admin API key.
FAQ
Canvas LMS and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Canvas LMS?
Yes. The Canvas LMS connector has 10 actions: 6 read and 4 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Canvas LMS?
Paste an API key from your Canvas LMS account. You'll need: Access token. The connection also asks for: Canvas address. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Canvas LMS without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 4 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs.
Can I use Canvas LMS in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Canvas LMS action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Canvas LMS to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.