# canvas-teacher-mcp

> Canvas LMS for instructors over MCP — build pages and quizzes, and grade

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/canvas-teacher-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/Canvas-LMS-MCP/canvas-teacher-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/Canvas-LMS-MCP/canvas-teacher-mcp
- version: 0.0.8
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: canvas, canvas-lms, grading, lms, mcp, teaching
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:canvas-teacher-mcp

### Description (declared)

# canvas-teacher-mcp

An MCP server for Canvas LMS, from the instructor's side. Ask your assistant to read a course,
build an assignment page or a quiz, post an announcement, or run a grading pass — it calls Canvas
for you.

**v0.1.0.** Everything is created **unpublished** and nothing is ever deleted.

## Install

Point your MCP client at it. Nothing to install by hand — `uvx` fetches it on first run.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "canvas-teacher": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["canvas-teacher-mcp"],
      "env": { "CANVAS_LMS_ROOT": "/absolute/path/to/your/teaching/folder" }
    }
  }
}
```

**Claude Desktop** — Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens the file. Add the entry inside the
existing `mcpServers` object rather than replacing it, then quit and reopen the app. A GUI app does
not inherit your shell `PATH`, so if the server does not appear, give the full path to `uvx`
(`which uvx` will tell you).

**Claude Code** — the same JSON in `.mcp.json` at your project root. Servers attach when a session
starts, so open a new one.

**Codex** — `~/.codex/config.toml`, TOML rather than JSON, with the environment in a table of its
own:

```toml
[mcp_servers.canvas-teacher]
command = "uvx"
args = ["canvas-teacher-mcp"]

[mcp_servers.canvas-teacher.env]
CANVAS_LMS_ROOT = "/Users/you/Teaching"
```

Use a plain chat or the `codex` CLI: inside a Codex Desktop **project**, no MCP tools appear at
all, while `codex mcp list` still shows the server — which makes it read as a setup mistake when
it is not (openai/codex #25843).

`CANVAS_LMS_ROOT` is the one thing you choose: the folder your courses live in. It is **required**
— the server keeps no root of its own, so this declaration is the only place it is written, and
you can always see what it is. Leave it out and the server says so on connect, telling your
assistant which file to add it to.

The folder need not exist yet; setup creates what it needs. An environment already exporting
`CANVAS_LMS_ROOT` works too …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- ai.evaluation (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/canvas-teacher-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T11:29:34.688Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/canvas-teacher-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/canvas-teacher-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:canvas-teacher-mcp