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Canvas LMS

Canvas LMS is Instructure's learning management system — courses, assignments, submissions, grades, discussions and the Canvas Inbox.

Authentication

  • Access token

Actions

Generic API request. Call any Canvas LMS API endpoint on this connection, for the case where no shipped action covers it yet — quizzes, modules, pages, files, calendar events, account-level reads. The connection supplies the base URL, the authentication and the egress route, so only the path, query and body are yours to fill.

  • Create assignmentCreate an assignment in a Canvas course — its title, description, points, grading scheme, due and lock dates, and how students submit it.
  • Create discussion topic or announcementPost a new discussion topic in a Canvas course, or an announcement — in Canvas an announcement is a discussion topic with Is announcement set, and that one flag is the whole difference.
  • Get assignmentRead one Canvas assignment by its numeric id, with the option to embed the connected user's own submission or the assignment's date overrides.
  • Get courseRead one Canvas course by its numeric id, with optional extras such as the syllabus body, the term or the teacher list.
  • Get submissionRead one student's submission for one Canvas assignment, optionally with its comment thread, attempt history or rubric assessment.
  • Grade or comment on a submissionDestructiveWrite a grade, an excusal, a late-policy status or a feedback comment back onto one student's Canvas submission.
  • List assignment submissionsList every student's submission for one Canvas assignment, with the option to embed the submitted text, the comment thread or the rubric assessment.
  • List assignmentsList a Canvas course's assignments, optionally bucketed by their due or grading status so a workflow can act on what is overdue, ungraded or coming up.
  • List course enrollmentsList a Canvas course's enrollments — the join rows between a person and a course, carrying the role, the enrollment state and, when asked for, the current and final scores.
  • List course usersList the people enrolled in one Canvas course, narrowed by the role they hold, the state of their enrollment or a name search.
  • List coursesList the courses the connected Canvas user is enrolled in, optionally narrowed to the role they hold or the publication state of the course.
  • List discussion topicsList a Canvas course's discussion topics, ordered by position, title or recent activity.
  • Send Inbox messageSend a Canvas Inbox message from the connected user to one or more recipients, which is how a workflow nudges a single student privately rather than announcing to the whole course.

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