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Canvas MCP Server

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An MCP server for interacting with the Canvas LMS API.

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Canvas MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation for the Canvas LMS API. This server provides functionality to interact with Canvas LMS programmatically.

Features

  • List courses from Canvas LMS with optional enrollment type filtering
  • Interactive help prompts for using the tools

Connecting with Cursor

To use this MCP server with Cursor:

  1. Open Cursor's settings
  2. Navigate to the MCP configuration section
  3. Add a new server configuration: 
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "canvas": {
      "command": "npm",
      "args": [
        "start"
      ],
      "cwd": "/path/to/mcp-server-canvas"
    }
  }
}
  4. Save the configuration and restart Cursor
  5. The Canvas tools will now be available in Cursor's MCP tools panel

Available Tools

list_courses

Lists all courses from Canvas LMS.

Parameters:

  • enrollment_type (optional): Filter courses by enrollment type (teacher, student, ta)

Example response:

{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": [
        {
          "id": 1234,
          "name": "Example Course",
          "code": "EX101",
          "state": "available",
          "startDate": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
          "endDate": "2024-12-31T23:59:59Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

list-courses-help

An interactive prompt that provides help with using the list_courses tool.

Development

The server is built using TypeScript and the MCP SDK. To add new features:

  1. Add new API methods to the CanvasAPI class
  2. Register new tools using server.tool()
  3. Register help prompts using server.prompt()
  4. Build and test your changes