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    {
      "Title": "Review all students' answers to a single quiz question at once (grade-by-question)",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\n\nAs an instructor using Claude, I want to review every student's response to a single quiz question side by side — instead of paging through SpeedGrader student-by-student — so I can grade essay/short-answer questions consistently and quickly.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nThis is a long-standing, repeatedly-voiced SpeedGrader limitation. In a 2026 r/Professors \"Canvas pet peeves\" thread ([old.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1uibbvl](https://old.reddit.com/r/Professors/comment",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/240",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-09T07:16:55.000Z",
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      "Title": "Flag assignments still accepting submissions after their due date (no lock date set)",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n## User story\n\nAs an instructor using Claude, I want to see which of my published assignments are past their due date but still accepting submissions (no lock/availability date set), so I can close the ones I forgot to lock before more late work piles up.\n\n## Evidence\n\nA large, active r/Professors thread this week about a surge in weeks-late submissions turned into a de-facto tutorial where many instructors independently prescribe closing the submission window at the deadline —",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/237",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-08T07:14:03.000Z",
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      "Title": "Let students see instructor and peer feedback comments on their own submissions",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\nAs a student using Claude with this Canvas MCP server, I want to see the feedback comments (and peer-review comments) an instructor or classmate left on my own submissions, so I don't miss feedback that today only surfaces via email or by clicking into each assignment in the Canvas web UI.\n\n**Evidence**\n- Recurring \"comment/feedback notifications are invisible in-app\" pain in the r/canvas \"Canvas pet peeves\" thread (12 pts, ~25 comments): one user lists *\"Lack of",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/230",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-02T07:15:07.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Extend the course link/image audit to cover quizzes and question banks",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\nAs an instructor using Claude, when I run the course link/image audit after copying a course, I want it to also flag broken and cross-course images inside quiz descriptions and quiz questions — because those break silently for students while still rendering in my own test-student preview, so I have no way to catch them by eye.\n\n**Evidence**\nInstructors report that images embedded in quizzes/question banks break for students after a course copy but remain visible ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/227",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T07:16:32.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Surface a course's submissions still awaiting manual grading (quiz essays, file uploads, ungraded work)",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story:** As an instructor using Claude, I want to see every submission in my course that still needs a human grade — especially quiz essays, file uploads, and fill-in-the-blank answers Canvas auto-graded but left \"pending review\" — so I don't publish deflated grades early or forget to circle back before grades post.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nInstructors repeatedly describe losing track of which quiz questions still need manual grading, and students seeing a deflated auto-grade befo",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/221",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-26T07:17:00.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 6,
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    {
      "Title": "Detect broken and outdated links and images in a course's content",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\nAs an instructor using Claude, I want to ask \"which links, images, or videos in my course are broken or still point at a previous copy of the course?\" so I can fix them before students hit dead content — especially after copying a course forward into a new term.\n\n**Evidence**\nRecurring instructor pain across two distinct r/canvas threads this cycle:\n- \"I need to know if any of my links, photos, and videos are broken … I'd like to be able to search my entire cours",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/218",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-25T07:17:12.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Explain a course's grading automation policy (auto-zero for missing work, late deductions, group weighting)",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\nAs an instructor (or student) using Claude, I want to ask \"how is grading set up in this course — will missing work automatically become a zero, are late submissions penalized, and are the assignment groups weighted?\" and get a plain-language answer, instead of hunting through Canvas settings screens or guessing.\n\n**Evidence**\nCanvas users repeatedly report that a course's grading *automation* is opaque — there is no easy way to tell whether the missing-submissio",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/213",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-23T07:15:39.000Z",
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      "Comments": 6,
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      "Title": "Surface course-setup problems before publishing (missing due dates, unpublished items, gradebook gaps)",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n## User story\n\nAs an instructor using Claude, I want to ask \"what's wrong with my course before I publish it?\" and get one factual report of common setup problems — assignments missing due dates, unpublished items students won't see, and gradebook weighting gaps — so I can fix them before the term starts (or before an accreditation review) instead of clicking through every assignment, module, and settings page by hand.\n\n## Evidence\n\nInstructors repeatedly describe a manual, cli",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/200",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-19T07:15:51.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "feat(auth): add MCP OAuth profile with host-visible Not authenticated state",
      "Excerpt": "## Motivation\n\n`canvas-lms-mcp` can be installed in Codex today, but the normal local setup is a\nstdio process whose Canvas PAT/base URL are supplied out of band. Codex therefore\nreports the server as `Auth Unsupported`; if the credential is absent, the process\nexits instead of appearing as `Not logged in` with an **Authenticate** action.\n\nThat is materially different from OAuth-backed servers such as GitHub/Notion:\n\n```text\ncanvas-lms   ...  enabled  Unsupported\nnotion       ...  enabled  Not l",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/302",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-11T20:05:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "Connectors Directory readiness: tool titles + privacy policy (MCPB submission requirements)",
      "Excerpt": "## Motivation\n\nAnthropic's [Connectors Directory](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/building/submission) lists vetted MCP servers (950+ as of mid-2026) with in-app discovery — for Claude Desktop users this is the only install path *easier* than our downloadable `.mcpb` (no download step at all). Desktop extensions (MCPB) are submitted via a dedicated form and don't require the Claude.ai admin portal.\n\nTwo submission requirements we currently fail:\n\n1. **Tool titles.** \"All tools must include a ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/277",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T10:28:47.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Add one-click install deep links for Cursor and VS Code",
      "Excerpt": "## Motivation\n\nOur install story covers Claude Desktop (one-click `.mcpb`), the `npx canvas-lms-mcp init` wizard, and manual config. Cursor and VS Code both support **one-click deep-link installs** for MCP servers, which is now standard practice for MCP server READMEs — a badge the user clicks and the client installs the server, no wizard or config editing.\n\n- Cursor: `cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=<name>&config=<base64-config>` (commonly rendered as an \"Add to Cursor\" badg",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/276",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T10:28:46.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "MCP Registry listing shows stale metadata (115 tools / 17 domains) and README registry badge 404s",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nTwo stale/broken surfaces on our MCP Registry presence:\n\n1. **`server.json` description is stale.** It reads `\"TypeScript MCP server for Canvas LMS — 115 read+write tools across 17 domains.\"` — the actual count is **163 tools across 41 domains**. This description is published to the official MCP Registry (`registry.modelcontextprotocol.io`) by the `registry-publish` job on **every release**, so the public listing for `io.github.bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp` (v1.24.0, `isLatest: true`, ver",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/275",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T10:28:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "upload_file fails with 'Unable to reach file storage (/canvas-files)' against a working self-hosted Canvas instance",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`upload_file` fails immediately with `Unable to reach file storage (/canvas-files)` against a live, working self-hosted Canvas instance (canvas.fjordbyte.no). Reproduced on version **1.23.0** (latest, resolved via `npx -y canvas-lms-mcp`) on 2026-07-24.\n\n## Reproduction\n\n```\nupload_file({ course_id: 4, name: \"probe.txt\", content: \"<base64>\", content_type: \"text/plain\" })\n→ Error: Unable to reach file storage (/canvas-files)\n```\n\n- Reproduced on two different courses in the same accou",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/258",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-24T17:45:39.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "Audit course content for WCAG accessibility issues (alt text, headings, tables, link text)",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\n\nAs an instructor using Claude, I want to ask \"which pages, assignments, and other content in my\ncourse have WCAG accessibility problems — missing alt text, bad heading structure, links that say\n'click here', tables without headers?\" so I can fix them before students (including students using\nscreen readers) hit inaccessible content.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n- Internal competitive gap: `vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp` ships an \"accessibility-auditor\" skill built\n  on tools this ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/245",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-23T14:36:54.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Find a student across all my courses, including past terms",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n**User story**\nAs an instructor using Claude, when a student from a previous term emails me asking for a recommendation letter (or I just need to recall their work), I want to ask \"which of my courses was Jane Doe enrolled in?\" and get every course + term she appears in — across current *and* concluded enrollments — instead of opening each old course roster one at a time.\n\n**Evidence**\nInstructors repeatedly cite the absence of any way to search *across* their Canvas courses fo",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/235",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-07T07:18:53.000Z",
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      "Title": "Detect duplicate files in a course to unblock accessibility cleanup",
      "Excerpt": "**User story**\n\nAs an instructor using Claude, when my institution mandates a high Canvas accessibility score, I want to ask \"which files in my course are duplicates?\" so I can remove the redundant copies that each get flagged separately by the accessibility checker — without hunting through the Files area by hand.\n\n**Evidence**\n\nCourse copies silently duplicate every uploaded PDF/doc in a course's Files, and each copy is flagged separately by accessibility scans — a hidden accessibility-score k",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/233",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-05T07:18:22.000Z",
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      "Title": "Support New Quizzes accommodations (extra time / attempts) per student across a course",
      "Excerpt": "**design-first**\n\n## User story\nAs an instructor using Claude, I want to grant a student their extra-time/attempts accommodation across **all New Quizzes** in a course in one call — the same bulk operation `set_student_quiz_accommodation` already does for Classic Quizzes — so I don't have to configure accommodations quiz-by-quiz as my institution moves to New Quizzes.\n\n## Evidence\nInstructors repeatedly ask for a one-shot, apply-to-all-quizzes accommodation and frame it as something competitors ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/bruchris/canvas-lms-mcp/issues/224",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-28T07:15:15.000Z",
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