Canvas Lms MCP Server

🚀 Canvas LMS MCP Server

This project provides MCP services for the Canvas LMS API, enabling students to access Canvas LMS resources.

🚀 Quick Start

This server offers MCP services for the Canvas LMS API, allowing students to access various Canvas LMS resources.

✨ Features

Tools

1. get_courses 📚
   • Retrieve all courses of the current user.
2. get_announcements 📣
   • Fetch all announcements in a specific course that were posted after a specified date.
3. get_assignments 📝
   • Obtain all assignments in a specific course with deadlines before a specified date.

📦 Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canvas-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-canvas-lms"],
      "env": {
        "CANVAS_ACCESS_TOKEN": "Your access token",
        "CANVAS_BASE_URL": "https://..."
      },
      "transportType": "stdio"
    }
  }
}

📚 Documentation

Environment Variables

• CANVAS_ACCESS_TOKEN: Canvas LMS API token.
• CANVAS_BASE_URL: The base URL of the Canvas API (e.g., https://canvas.ust.hk).

Create your access token at Sidebar > Profile > Settings (/profile/settings) > Approved Integrations > New Access Token.

⚠️ Important Note

You may not be able to create a new access token if this feature is disabled by the administrator.

🔧 Technical Details

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build