Canvas

Retrieves profile information for an existing Canvas user.

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Tool to retrieve custom data stored for a Canvas user within a specified namespace and optional scope. Use when you need to fetch application-specific data that was previously stored for a user. The namespace parameter (ns) is required to prevent data collisions between different applications.

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Tool to retrieve all files for the currently authenticated user. Use when you need to list files in the user's personal file storage. Supports filtering by content type, searching by filename, and sorting options.

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Retrieves detailed information about a specific access token for a Canvas user. Use when you need to inspect token properties like expiration, scopes, or workflow state.

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Tool to get external tools with course_navigation placement that are visible to the requesting user. Use when you need to see which external tools appear in the course navigation menu for one or more courses.

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Retrieves external tools with course_navigation placement that are visible in the course navigation for a specific course. Use when you need to see which external tools appear in the course navigation menu for a given course.

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Updates a student's assignment submission with a grade, comment, sticker, or status change; requires `course_id`, `assignment_id`, `user_id`, and at least one update field. Rubric assessments are not supported and require a separate Canvas API call.

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Update grades and/or add comments to a student's assignment submission. Use when you need to provide feedback or scoring. Requires permission to manage grades when updating grades or rubric assessments.

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Tool to hide all activity stream items for the current user. Use when the user wants to clear their entire activity stream.

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Tool to hide assignment grades for specific sections in Canvas. Use when you need to conceal grades from students in particular course sections, typically during grading periods or before releasing final grades.

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Tool to hide a stream item from the user's activity stream. Use when you want to remove a specific activity item from view.

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Tool to import an outcome group into a Canvas course. Creates a new subgroup with the same title and description as the source, then creates links to the same outcomes and recursively imports subgroups. Use when duplicating outcome groups within or across courses. Set async=true for large imports to track progress.

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Tool to send invitations to all supplied email addresses which will allow the receivers to join the group. Use when you need to add new members to a Canvas group via email invitation.

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Tool to leave a group by removing the specified membership. Use when you need to remove a user from a group they are allowed to leave. Note: Some groups, such as sets of course groups created by teachers, cannot be left.

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Tool to leave a group if allowed. Use when a user needs to exit a group membership. Note that some groups, such as course groups created by teachers, cannot be left by members.

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Tool to retrieve all active global notifications for a Canvas account. Use when you need to check current announcements for the user. Closed notifications are excluded unless include_past is specified.

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Retrieves Canvas accounts visible to the current user due to their course-level administrative roles; no request parameters are needed.

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Retrieves the current user's global activity stream from Canvas, paginated. Returns recent activities across courses including discussions, conversations, messages, submissions, conferences, and announcements. Use to display user's recent Canvas activity or notifications.

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Tool to retrieve all courses that the user is enrolled in using the Canvas GraphQL API. Returns information about courses on the user's dashboard.

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Retrieves the paginated list of all folders for a specified Canvas course. Returns a flat list containing the root folder and all nested subfolders. This action is scoped to courses only.

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Retrieves the paginated list of all folders for a specified Canvas group. Returns a flat list containing the root folder and all nested subfolders.

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Tool to retrieve the paginated list of all folders for a specified Canvas user. Returns a flat list containing the root folder and all nested subfolders. Use when you need to access or browse a user's folder structure.

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Tool to retrieve paginated list of announcements for specified courses and date range. Use when you need to fetch course announcements with optional filtering by dates and inclusion of additional context.

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Retrieves a list of Canvas appointment groups based on specified filters; any provided `context_codes` must be valid and accessible by the user.

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Returns the paginated list of assignment groups for the current context. Use when you need to retrieve assignment groups for a course. The returned groups are sorted by their position field.

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Tool to retrieve the paginated list of overrides for an assignment. Use when you need to see which sections, groups, or students have custom due dates or availability settings for a specific assignment.

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Tool to retrieve the paginated list of assignments for a specific assignment group within a course. Use when you need assignments grouped by assignment group rather than all assignments for a course.

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Tool to list assignments for a specific user in a Canvas course. Use when you need to retrieve assignments visible to a particular user, with optional filtering by due date, submission status, or search term. This endpoint respects user permissions and returns only assignments the specified user has rights to view.

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Retrieves submissions for a specific assignment within a course, optionally including related resources or grouping by student group for group assignments. Supports pagination to retrieve more than the default 10 submissions.

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Tool to list all submissions for an assignment within a specific section. Use when you need to retrieve submissions for a section-level assignment rather than a course-level assignment.

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