canvas-mcp: read-only Canvas LMS connector for ChatGPT and Claude
An MIT-licensed, self-hosted read-only Canvas connector with 26 tools for courses, assignments, grades and announcements, using a personal access token.
Students, this one's for you. canvas-mcp is a new free connector (MIT) that plugs your Canvas LMS into Claude or ChatGPT. → "What's due this week?" "What am I missing?" "What feedback did I get?" → 26 read-only tools: courses, assignments, grades, files, announcements, inbox → It can't submit, post or delete anything Caveats: you host it yourself and give it a Canvas access token, so treat the connector link like a password. Some schools don't allow personal tokens, so check first. It's unofficial and not from Instructure. https://github.com/boyuchengz/canvas-mcp