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Canvas Canvas Career Experiences API

The Canvas Career Experiences API from Canvas — 4 operation(s) for canvas career experiences.

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Operations 4

GET /v1/career/enabled Check if Canvas Career is enabled #

GET /v1/career/experience_summary Get current and available experiences #

POST /v1/career/switch_experience Switch experience #

POST /v1/career/switch_role Switch role #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Canvas LMS REST Canvas Career Experiences API
  version: v1
  summary: The complete Canvas LMS REST API, converted from the Swagger 1.2 documents Instructure publishes under https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/.
  description: The Canvas LMS REST API covers courses, assignments, quizzes, grades, users, enrollments, accounts, files, modules, rubrics, submissions, SIS imports, LTI, analytics and account administration.
  contact:
    name: Instructure Canvas
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
  license:
    name: AGPL-3.0
    url: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/master/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://canvas.instructure.com/api
  description: Instructure-hosted Canvas (canvas.instructure.com)
- url: https://{canvas_host}/api
  description: Any Canvas instance; Canvas is multi-tenant and self-hostable, so the host is the institution's Canvas domain.
  variables:
    canvas_host:
      default: canvas.instructure.com
      description: Your institution's Canvas hostname, e.g. school.instructure.com
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Canvas Career Experiences
  x-resource: canvas_career_experiences
  externalDocs:
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/canvas_career_experiences.html
paths:
  /v1/career/enabled:
    get:
      tags:
      - Canvas Career Experiences
      operationId: check_if_canvas_career_is_enabled
      summary: Check if Canvas Career is enabled
      description: 'Returns whether the root account has Canvas Career (Horizon) enabled

        in at least one subaccount.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: string
                x-canvas-declared-type: '{enabled: boolean}'
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/canvas_career_experiences.html
  /v1/career/experience_summary:
    get:
      tags:
      - Canvas Career Experiences
      operationId: get_current_and_available_experiences
      summary: Get current and available experiences
      description: 'Returns the current user''s active experience and available experiences

        they can switch to.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExperienceSummary'
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/canvas_career_experiences.html
  /v1/career/switch_experience:
    post:
      tags:
      - Canvas Career Experiences
      operationId: switch_experience
      summary: Switch experience
      description: Switch the current user's active experience to the specified one.
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                experience:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - academic
                  - career
                  description: The experience to switch to.
              required:
              - experience
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                experience:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - academic
                  - career
                  description: The experience to switch to.
              required:
              - experience
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: string
                x-canvas-declared-type: '{experience: String} The newly set experience'
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/canvas_career_experiences.html
  /v1/career/switch_role:
    post:
      tags:
      - Canvas Career Experiences
      operationId: switch_role
      summary: Switch role
      description: Switch the current user's role within the current experience.
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                role:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - learner
                  - learning_provider
                  description: The role to switch to.
              required:
              - role
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                role:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - learner
                  - learning_provider
                  description: The role to switch to.
              required:
              - role
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: string
                x-canvas-declared-type: '{role: String} The newly set role'
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/canvas_career_experiences.html
components:
  schemas:
    ExperienceSummary:
      type: object
      properties:
        current_app:
          type: string
          example: career_learner
          description: 'The current active experience. One of: ''academic'', ''career_learner'', ''career_learning_provider''.'
        available_apps:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - academic
          - career_learner
          description: 'List of available experiences for the user. Can include: ''academic'', ''career_learner'', ''career_learning_provider''.'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Canvas OAuth2 access token sent as "Authorization: Bearer <token>". See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html'
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: Canvas OAuth2. See https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html and https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth_endpoints.html
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth
          tokenUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
          refreshUrl: https://canvas.instructure.com/login/oauth2/token
          scopes: {}
externalDocs:
  description: Canvas LMS REST API Documentation
  url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
x-generated-from: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json
x-provenance:
  method: derived
  derived_by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline (Swagger 1.2 -> OpenAPI 3.1 conversion)
  source: openapi/_original/swagger-1.2/*.json (144 verbatim first-party Swagger 1.2 documents)
  source_url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/api-docs.json
  fetched: '2026-09-05'
  http_status: 200

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