# Canvas SIS Import API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-sis-import-api/  
**Provider:** Canvas LMS — https://apis.io/providers/canvas-lms/  
**Documentation:** https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/sis_imports.html

Canvas SIS Import API is one of 16 APIs that [Canvas LMS](https://apis.io/providers/canvas-lms/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include SIS, Student Information System, Provisioning, Bulk Import, and CSV. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The SIS Import API ingests Canvas's canonical SIS CSV format (and ZIP archives of those CSVs) to provision accounts, terms, courses, sections, users, enrollments, groups, group memberships, cross-listings, user observers, logins, admins, change-sis-id mappings, and admin differentiation tags. Supports diffing imports against the previous import, batch mode, and asynchronous progress polling.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/sis_imports.html
- **Documentation** — https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/sis_import_errors.html
- **Documentation** — https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html
- **Documentation** — https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.object_ids.html
- **Documentation** — https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/sis_integration.html

## Other Canvas LMS APIs (12)

- [Canvas GraphQL API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-graphql-api/)
- [Canvas LTI Advantage Services](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lti-advantage/)
- [Canvas Platform Notification Service](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-platform-notification-service/)
- [Canvas Live Events](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-live-events/)
- [Canvas Data Access Platform](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-data-access-platform/)
- [Canvas LMS Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-accounts-api/)
- [Canvas LMS Assignments API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-assignments-api/)
- [Canvas LMS Courses API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-courses-api/)
- [Canvas LMS Discussions API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-discussions-api/)
- [Canvas LMS Enrollments API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-enrollments-api/)
- [Canvas LMS Files API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-files-api/)
- [Canvas LMS Modules API](https://apis.io/apis/canvas-lms/canvas-lms-modules-api/)

## Tags

SIS, Student Information System, Provisioning, Bulk Import, CSV

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