Canvas Tools
Canvas is a learning management system supporting online courses, assignments, grading, and collaboration, widely used by schools and universities for virtual classrooms
Use Canvas Tools with AI agents
Aident Loadout lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other supported agents call Canvas Tools. Choose from 573 supported Actions. Review each execution in Audit.
Connect Canvas Tools once through Aident Vault. Your agent can use the supported Actions without receiving the underlying credential.
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- Free in Loadout. Provider charges may apply when using a personally connected account.
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Included Actions
- Canvas Abort Quiz Report GenerationAborts the generation of a quiz report or removes a previously generated one. Use when you need to cancel a report generation request or clean up an old report.
- Canvas Add Conversation MessageTool to add a message to an existing Canvas conversation. Use when sending a follow-up message to a conversation thread with specified recipients.
- Canvas Add Course To FavoritesTool to add a course to the current user's favorites. Use when you need to favorite a course for the authenticated user. If the course is already in the user's favorites, nothing happens.
- Canvas Add Group To FavoritesTool to add a group to the current user's favorites. Use when you need to mark a group as favorite for the authenticated user. If the group is already in the user's favorites, nothing happens.
- Canvas Add Last Attended DateTool to add or update the last attended date for a student enrollment in a course. Use when tracking student attendance by recording the last date a student attended the course.
- Canvas Add Recipients To ConversationTool to add recipients to an existing group conversation. Use when you need to add new participants to an ongoing conversation. Response includes the latest message showing who was added.
- Canvas Add Users To Content ShareTool to send a previously created content share to additional users. Use when you need to add more recipients to an existing content share.
- Canvas Answer Quiz QuestionsTool to provide or update answers to quiz questions for a quiz submission. Use when submitting answers for a quiz attempt. Requires a valid validation_token from quiz submission creation and the latest attempt number.
- Canvas Assign Unassigned Members To Group CategoryTool to assign unassigned members to groups within a group category. Use when you need to distribute users who are not yet in any group within the category. Returns a Progress object for async tracking by default, or group memberships when sync=true.
- Canvas Clear Course NicknamesTool to remove all stored course nicknames for the current user. Use when you need to clear all custom course name preferences.
- Canvas Close Notification For UserTool to excuse/close an account notification for the current user. Use when the current user no longer wants to see a specific notification. If the `remove` parameter is set to true, the notification is permanently destroyed for all users (admin action).
- Canvas Conclude Deactivate Or Delete EnrollmentTool to conclude, deactivate, or delete an enrollment in a Canvas course. Use when you need to end or remove a user's enrollment. If the task argument isn't given, the enrollment will be concluded.
- Canvas Copy File To FolderCopies an existing Canvas file to a specified destination folder. Use when you need to duplicate a file to another location.
- Canvas Copy FolderTool to copy a folder to another folder in Canvas. Use when you need to duplicate a folder structure with its contents to a destination folder.
- Canvas Create A Content Migration4Tool to create a content migration for a Canvas user. Use when you need to import content into a user's files from various sources (zip files, cartridges, etc.). If the migration requires a file upload, the actual processing starts once the file upload completes.
- Canvas Create Account NotificationCreates a global notification within a Canvas account, ensuring `end_at` is after `start_at` and any specified `notification_roles` are valid.
- Canvas Create Appointment GroupCreates a new appointment group in Canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.
- Canvas Create AssignmentCreates a new assignment within a specified course in Canvas LMS.
- Canvas Create Assignment Graph QlTool to create a new assignment in a Canvas course using the GraphQL API. Use when you need to create assignments with detailed configuration options including peer reviews, moderated grading, or assignment overrides.
- Canvas Create Assignment GroupCreate a new assignment group for a course. Use when you need to add a new assignment group to organize assignments in a Canvas course.
- Canvas Create Assignment OverrideCreates an assignment override to adjust due/unlock/lock dates for an assignment in a course, targeting specific students (requires `title`), a group, or a course section; at least one target (`student_ids`, `group_id`, or `course_section_id`) is required.
- Canvas Create Batch Overrides In A CourseTool to batch create assignment overrides for multiple assignments in a course. Use when creating multiple overrides at once in a transactional manner (all succeed or none are created). Each override requires assignment_id and one of student_ids, group_id, or course_section_id.
- Canvas Create Blackout Date For CourseTool to create a blackout date for the given course context. Use when you need to define a period during which certain activities are restricted or unavailable for a specific course.
- Canvas Create BookmarkCreates a new bookmark for the authenticated user. Use when you need to save a shortcut link to a Canvas page or external resource for quick access.
- Canvas Create Calendar EventCreates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.
- Canvas Create Communication ChannelCreates a new communication channel (e.g., email, SMS, push) for an existing Canvas user to receive notifications.
- Canvas Create Content ShareShares a Canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver IDs are valid.
- Canvas Create ConversationUse to send messages in Canvas by creating a new conversation or adding to an existing one; an existing conversation with the same recipients (and matching scope/filter, if specified) may be reused unless `force_new` is true.
- Canvas Create Conversation Graph QlTool to create a new conversation (message) between users in Canvas via GraphQL. Use when initiating a new conversation thread with specified recipients.
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