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Canvas Plagiarism Detection Platform Users API

The Plagiarism Detection Platform Users API from Canvas — 2 operation(s) for plagiarism detection platform users.

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Operations 2

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GET /lti/users/{id} Get a user as a plagiarism detection tool · Get a single user (lti) #

Ask an LLM

“Can a plagiarism tool look up a student by their LTI id?”

“Which users is my LTI tool allowed to fetch?”

Tell an agent

Get user {id} for my plagiarism detection tool.

Look up the user with Canvas or LTI id {id}.

GET /lti/groups/{group_id}/users List a group's users as an LTI tool · Get all users in a group (lti) #

Ask an LLM

“Can my LTI tool list everyone in a student group?”

“Which groups can a tool provider read members from?”

Tell an agent

List the users in group {group_id} for my LTI tool.

Get all members of group {group_id} as the tool provider.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Canvas LMS REST Plagiarism Detection Platform Users 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: Plagiarism Detection Platform Users
  x-resource: plagiarism_detection_platform_users
  externalDocs:
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/plagiarism_detection_platform_users.html
paths:
  /lti/users/{id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Plagiarism Detection Platform Users
      operationId: get_single_user_lti
      summary: Get a single user (lti)
      description: 'Get a single Canvas user by Canvas id or LTI id. Tool providers may only access

        users that have been assigned an assignment associated with their tool.'
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: string
                x-canvas-declared-type: User
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/plagiarism_detection_platform_users.html
  /lti/groups/{group_id}/users:
    get:
      tags:
      - Plagiarism Detection Platform Users
      operationId: get_all_users_in_group_lti
      summary: Get all users in a group (lti)
      description: 'Get all Canvas users in a group. Tool providers may only access

        groups that belong to the context the tool is installed in.'
      parameters:
      - name: group_id
        in: path
        schema:
          type: string
        required: true
        description: ID
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
                  x-canvas-declared-type: User
      externalDocs:
        url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/plagiarism_detection_platform_users.html
components:
  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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