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canvas-mcp MCP Server

Canvas LMS integration for students and educators with optional privacy controls

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Published as canvas-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

58 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

[Bug]: Create announcement tool

Bug Description

I previously submitted issue #220. I am testing as a student. Now it is saying it cannot create an announcement but it is posting it as a dicussion instead. It does not confirm whether I want a discussion post made.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Configure canvas mcp
  2. prompt to create announcement
  3. see it post a discussion rather than announcement.

Expected Behavior

It would give me a 403 error since I am a student and not post a discussion.

Actual Behavior

it t

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 8 comments

[Bug]: call search_canvas_tools for peer review but did not get MCP tools related to Peer Reviews

Bug Description

search_canvas_tools helps find available Canvas API tools by keyword, especially when you’re not sure which Canvas function to use.

However, when I asked search canvas tools for peer reviews, the answer is not related to peer review tools:

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Steps to Reproduce

  1. ask how to use search_canvas_tools
  2. MCP returns `search_canvas_tools hel

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 5 comments

[Bug]: peer review tools still not working

Bug Description

I had previously put in a ticket and it was marked resolve; however, the issue still stands. When i use the get_my_peer_reviews_todo it says no pending peer reviews. This is not true as I have a peer review assigned to me, the other person submitted, and it was after the due date of the assignment. I even tried prompting with the course and assignmnt id that has the peer review and that did not work

Steps to Reproduce

  1. configure canvas mcp
  2. ask for assigned peer re

Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · external user · 11 comments

[Feature]: add tools for Canvas Quizzes

[!IMPORTANT] Scope has changed since this was filed — read the comments before writing code.

@zqian confirmed New Quizzes is the priority, not Classic. These are two different products on two different API roots (/api/quiz/v1 vs /api/v1) and the Classic REST endpoints in the link below do not work against New Quizzes. Anything built purely from this original description will target the wrong system.

Current plan is a tiered breakdown (Tier A read layer → C1 spik

Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · open · external user · 8 comments

switch to FastMCP from MCP SDK library

MCP SDK v1 is based on FastMCP v1.0, and MCP SDK v2 is still in Alpha.

Meanwhile, FastMCP provided support for migration: https://gofastmcp.com/getting-started/upgrading/from-mcp-sdk, with the following reason for upgrade:

`Why upgrade? FastMCP 1.0 pioneered the Pythonic MCP server experience, and we’re proud it was bundled into the mcp package. The standalone FastMCP project has since grown into a full framework for taking MCP servers from prototype to production — with composition, middlewar

Read the thread · 2026-06-25 · closed · external user · 6 comments

Most recent

[Feature]: Provide option to disable accessibility checkers if not using UDOIT/UFIXIT

Problem Statement

It looks like the 4 accessibility checkers require having UDOIT/UFIXIT available which is an optional addon that we don't have. These should be disabled if not available.

I think it would probably be nice to support other accessibility checkers in the future but seems like that's the only one currently? Canvas has some new accessibility checker but I'm not sure if it has an API. Other a11y checkers possibly have an API or some way to tell if the course was scanned but I'm

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 1 comment

[Feature]: use confirmation token for delete tools

Problem Statement

Currently the following delete tools are included:

Note there is only one tool, delete_announcement_with_confirmation, uses confirmation token

Can we use the confirmation token for the rest of delete_ tools? delete_announcement can be removed

Also can we add delete_assignment_with_confirmation to

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 2 comments

[Feature]: add configuration to limit # of tools based on Canvas user role

Problem Statement

Azure platform enforced max # of MCP tools as 128. We need to combine Canvas MCP connector with other connectors for more system integrations, and keep the total combined MCP tools within the 128 limit.

Can we add a configuration variable like "CANVAS_USER_ROLE" in this Canvas MCP server? So only student-facing MCP tools will be turned on if CANVAS_USER_ROLE = Student, and teacher-facing MCP tools will be offered when CANVAS_USER_ROLE = Teacher, etc.

Proposed Solutio

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[Feature]: add support for content migration

Problem Statement

Instructor reuse course materials; institutions provide course template with well-structured content materials.

It would be helpful to support course import or content migration in MCP.

Proposed Solution

The Canvas Content Migration API can be used.

For example, if choose to import all content from the source course, the following payload can be used: 

course_id: "target_sit

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/issues/309) · 2026-08-19 · open · external user · 1 comment

### [Bug]: send_peer_review_reminders probably should not be doing reminders through the internal Inbox

### Bug Description

In Canvas UI, Peer Review Reminders appear to be done by sending an empty POST back to the same peer review to refresh the `updated_at`, a function the students can't do. This triggers an update to the students and sets the updated time. 

<img width="526" height="169" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d30a58c-a613-49e0-9440-a57ffb13a61b" />

In the MCP for `send_peer_review_reminders` it does this reminder more direct by using the `_post_conversat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/issues/303) · 2026-08-18 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Skill Request - Generate an Analysis of each student to prevent them from falling through the cracks

Give me analysis of each student - missing assignments, low test scores, low participation grades, and anything else that would contribute to students not succeeding in a class.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/issues/302) · 2026-08-18 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Feature: optional cookie-based auth for Canvas instances that don't issue API tokens

### Problem

canvas-mcp authenticates with a Canvas API token created at **Account → Settings → New Access Token**. Some institutions disable or hide that page for students and route all access through SSO, so those users can't mint a token at all, which means they can't use canvas-mcp today even though they have a perfectly good logged-in Canvas session in their browser.

### Proposal

Add an **opt-in** auth mode that reuses the same session the browser uses, without changing the default behavi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vishalsachdev/canvas-mcp/issues/299) · 2026-08-17 · open · external user · 1 comment

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for canvas-mcp](/mcp/canvas-mcp/issues) — of 58 qualified upstream.

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