# Canvas LMS

> Canvas LMS — admin978-canvas-lms. Use this tool when you need to integrate learning management system functionality into your workflow, providing access to course materials, assignments, and grades. It solves problems related to educational resource management, student information retrieval, and automated task planning. The Canvas LMS tool accepts API credentials as input and outputs relevant educational data, such as course listings, assignment details, and upcoming events.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/admin978-canvas-lms  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/admin978-canvas-lms

## Description

Canvas LMS exposes the Canvas REST API as MCP tools for AI agents and students. It provides nine tools for listing courses, assignments, modules, and announcements, reading page content and files, checking grades, and fetching planner items and upcoming events. The server runs locally with stdio transport, storing credentials in a local environment file with no third-party intermediary.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.64
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-01

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** media
- **Updated:** 2026-09-01

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/admin978-canvas-lms)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/admin978/canvas-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "admin978-canvas-lms"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/admin978-canvas-lms` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/admin978-canvas-lms/pull`

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