MCP server · Canvas LMS

canvas-lms-mcp.yml

Instructure does not publish an official hosted or remote MCP server for Canvas (searched: docs, npm @modelcontextprotocol, MCP registries — July 2026). A healthy community ecosystem of Canvas MCP servers exists (e.g. vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp ~93 tools, DMontgomery40/mcp-canvas-lms 54 tools, r-huijts/canvas-mcp), all unaffiliated with Instructure. The tools[] below are a CANDIDATE surface derived one-per-operation from the captured Canvas REST OpenAPI — a starting point for wrapping Canvas as MCP, not a published server.

View descriptor → Canvas LMS provider profile

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⚠ Proposed MCP surface. No official hosted MCP server was found for Canvas LMS. The tools below are a candidate set derived from this provider's API, and the link points at the source descriptor rather than a live server. If Canvas LMS publishes an official server, this page will update to it on the next build.

Provider: Canvas LMS Type: Candidate descriptor Transport: Host: raw.githubusercontent.com

Descriptor

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/canvas-lms/refs/heads/main/mcp/canvas-lms-mcp.yml

Candidate descriptor · transport

Tools

list_accounts — List accounts that the current user can view or manage
get_account — Retrieve a single account
list_courses_in_account — List courses in an account
list_courses — List the current user's courses
get_course — Retrieve a single course
update_course — Update a course
delete_course — Delete or conclude a course
list_course_users — List users in a course
list_course_enrollments — List enrollments in a course
enroll_user — Enroll a user in a course
list_assignments — List assignments in a course
create_assignment — Create an assignment
get_assignment — Retrieve a single assignment
update_assignment — Update an assignment
delete_assignment — Delete an assignment
list_submissions — List submissions for an assignment
get_submission — Retrieve a single submission
grade_submission — Grade or comment on a submission
list_modules — List modules in a course
list_discussion_topics — List discussion topics in a course
list_course_files — List files in a course
get_user — Retrieve a single user
get_self — Retrieve the current user
get_self_profile — Retrieve the current user's profile
list_outcome_groups — List outcome groups in a course

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