Canvas LMS Student MCP
A free, open-source MCP server that connects AI assistants to Canvas LMS for students. It provides read-only access to courses, grades, due dates, missing work, announcements, and course content. It supports generating to-do lists, calculating target grades, and exporting deadlines to .ics calendar files without modifying any data in the LMS.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
What you can do with it
- What's due this week?
- What's my grade in each class?
- Show me what's in the Week 3 module
- Put my Canvas due dates in Google Calendar
Source and maintenance
- Last repository push
- Latest release
- v0.1.10
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
canvas-lms-student-mcp 0.1.10
{
"version": "0.1.10",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "canvas-lms-student-mcp",
"runtimeHint": "npx",
"registryType": "npm",
"registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
"runtimeArguments": [
{
"type": "positional",
"value": "-y"
}
],
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "CANVAS_BASE_URL",
"isRequired": true,
"description": "Your school's Canvas address, for example https://myschool.instructure.com",
"placeholder": "https://yourschool.instructure.com"
},
{
"name": "CANVAS_API_TOKEN",
"isRequired": true,
"description": "A Canvas access token, created in Canvas under Account > Settings > New Access Token"
}
]
}Tools
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Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
- · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown
Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"canvas-lms-student-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canvas-lms-student-mcp@0.1.10"
],
"env": {
"CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
"CANVAS_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_CANVAS_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"canvas-lms-student-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canvas-lms-student-mcp@0.1.10"
],
"env": {
"CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
"CANVAS_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_CANVAS_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"canvas-lms-student-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canvas-lms-student-mcp@0.1.10"
],
"env": {
"CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
"CANVAS_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_CANVAS_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"canvas-lms-student-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canvas-lms-student-mcp@0.1.10"
],
"env": {
"CANVAS_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_CANVAS_BASE_URL>",
"CANVAS_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_CANVAS_API_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
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