Canvas Integration

Connect Canvas to Arahi's no-code AI agents and automate workflows in minutes.

About the Canvas integration

Learning management system With Arahi AI, you can connect Canvas to Google Classroom, Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow), Thinkific and 1,500+ other apps using AI-powered workflows. No coding required — set up triggers, actions, and intelligent automation in minutes.

Category: Learning & Education
Authentication: oauth

Canvas automation use cases

New student onboarding: Kick off a welcome email + first-lesson reminder when someone enrolls in Canvas.
Progress-stalled nudges: Nudge Canvas students who haven't opened a lesson in 7 days with a personal message.
Certificate generation: Generate and email completion certificates from Canvas as students finish the final module.
Cohort announcements: Post Canvas cohort announcements to Slack or Discord so students don't miss them.

Canvas workflow examples

Post Canvas graded assignments to Slack instructors

When Canvas Assignment Graded fires, Arahi posts student, assignment, and grade to a Slack instructor channel for early-risk review.

Canvas Assignment Graded event to post grade in Slack instructor channel.

Create calendar events via Canvas from Google Calendar

When a Google Calendar event is tagged course, Arahi calls Create Calendar Event on Canvas so enrolled students see it in-app.

Google Calendar course event to call Canvas Create Calendar Event.

Log Canvas submissions into Airtable grading queue

When New Canvas Assignment Submission fires, Arahi appends student, assignment, and submission time to an Airtable grading queue.

New Canvas Assignment Submission to append row into Airtable queue.

Canvas triggers

Canvas Assignment Graded: Polls Canvas for newly graded submissions for a specific assignment.
New Canvas Assignment Submission: Polls Canvas for new submissions to a specific assignment.
New Canvas Discussion Message: Polls Canvas discussion topics for new messages.
New Canvas Discussion Topic: Polls a Canvas course for new discussion topics.
New Course Created for User: Polls Canvas for newly created courses for a specific user.
New Canvas File Upload: Polls a Canvas course for new file uploads.

Canvas actions

Create account notification: Creates a global notification within a canvas account, ensuring `end at` is after `start at` and any specified `notification roles` are valid.
Create appointment group: Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.
Create an assignment: Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.
Create assignment override: Creates 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.
Create Calendar Event: Creates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.
Create communication channel: Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.
Create content share: Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.
Create conversation: Use 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.
Create a course: Creates a new course in canvas within a specified account, with comprehensive configuration options.
Create discussion entry: Tool to create a new entry in a canvas discussion topic. use when posting a message with optional attachments to a discussion topic.
Create discussion topic: Creates a new discussion topic in a specified canvas course, allowing comprehensive configuration of its content, type, publication settings, engagement features, and associations.
Create enrollment: Enrolls a user in a canvas course with a specified role and status; `associated user id` is required if `enrollment type` is 'observerenrollment'.
Create Folder: Creates a new folder in canvas within a specified context (e.g., course, user) and optional parent folder; ensure the context and any parent folder (specified by id or path, not both) already exist.
Create Module: Creates a new organizational module within a specified canvas lms course, with options for availability, sequencing, and prerequisites.
Create a page for a course: Creates a new wiki page in a specified canvas course, with options for title, html body, editing permissions, publication, and designation as front page (which also requires publication).
Create Quiz: Creates a new quiz with various settings in a specified existing canvas course; `assignment group id` applies only to graded quiz types.
Create a quiz question: Creates a new question for an existing quiz within a course; if `answers` are provided, their structure must align with `question type`, and any `quiz group id` must be valid for an existing group in the quiz.
Delete appointment group: Permanently deletes an existing appointment group by its id; associated appointments may also be canceled or affected.
Delete an assignment: Soft-deletes a specific assignment within a course, returning the assignment object with its `workflow state` updated to 'deleted'.
Delete a folder: Permanently deletes an existing folder specified by its unique id.
Delete quiz: Permanently deletes the quiz identified by `quiz id` from the course identified by `course id`; this action cannot be undone.
Get current grades: Fetches current, aggregated grade data from canvas analytics for a specified account id.
Get term grade data: Retrieves department-level aggregated grade data for a specific academic term within a canvas account.
Edit assignment: Updates an existing assignment in a canvas course (identified by `course id` and `assignment id`); only attributes explicitly provided in the request are modified.
Edit a quiz: Modifies an existing canvas quiz; only attributes with provided values in the request are updated.
Export content: Use to initiate an asynchronous export of content (e.g., common cartridge, qti, zip) from an existing canvas course, returning an export id and progress url.
Fetch Data: Fetches a specific category of canvas data (e.g., accounts, courses, users) by setting exactly one `get *` boolean flag to true and providing any associated ids. supports pagination with per page (default 100, max 100) and page (default 1) parameters to fetch large datasets.
Get Canvas accounts: Retrieves all canvas accounts accessible to the authenticated user.
Get all assignments: Retrieves assignments for a specified canvas course.
Get all users: Retrieves a list of users for a specified canvas `account id` (use 'self' for the current user's root account), supporting filtering, sorting, and pagination.
Get assignment: Retrieves detailed information for a specific assignment within a given course in canvas.
Get Assignment Rubric: Fetches the detailed rubric for a specified assignment within a canvas course; fails if the assignment has no associated rubric.
Get Course Activity: Retrieves daily activity analytics, such as page views and participation events, for a specified canvas course.
Get Current User: Retrieves detailed information about the currently authenticated user from the canvas lms.
Get department-level completed statistics: Retrieves numeric statistics for all completed courses for a specified canvas account id; the account must exist.
Get department level current statistics: Fetches a snapshot of current numerical statistics for a canvas account, requiring its valid id.
Get department level completed grades: Retrieves the distribution of final grades (0-100, binned to whole numbers) for all completed courses in a canvas account, where each data point represents one student's final grade in one course.
Get department level term statistics: Retrieves department-level academic term statistics (e.g., enrollment, activity, grades) for a specified account and term in canvas, provided analytics data is available.
Get enrollment by ID: Retrieves a specific enrollment by its id within a given account.
Get gradebook history days: Retrieves a chronological list of dates with grading activity and the active graders for a specified course.
Get Page for a Course: Retrieves a specific content page (wiki or content page) by its url or numeric id from a specified canvas course.
Get quiz submissions: Retrieves all submissions for a specific quiz within a course; ensure `course id` and `quiz id` are valid and the quiz belongs to the course.
Get report status: Retrieves the status of a previously initiated report in a canvas account, specified by its type and id.
Get a single course: Retrieves detailed information for a specific canvas course using its `course id`, which must be valid, and allows for including additional data fields in the response via the `include` parameter.
Get single submission: Retrieves a specific submission for an assignment made by a particular user within a designated course.
Get submission files: Retrieves files from a student's canvas assignment submission, processing text, binary, and zip files, and providing s3 download urls if s3 integration is active and uploads are successful.
Get user assignment analytics: Fetches detailed assignment-level analytics for a specific student in a designated course, including submission details and class performance statistics.
Get user course progress: Retrieves the academic progress of a specific user within a given course.
Get user participation analytics: Retrieves page view activity and participation details for a specific student enrolled in a designated course.
Get User Profile: Retrieves profile information for an existing canvas user.
Grade or comment on a submission: 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.
List Accounts for Course Admins: Retrieves canvas accounts visible to the current user due to their course-level administrative roles; no request parameters are needed.
List all folders: Retrieves the first page of folders for a specified canvas course id; this action is scoped to courses only.
List appointment groups: Retrieves a list of canvas appointment groups based on specified filters; any provided `context codes` must be valid and accessible by the user.
List assignment submissions: 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.
List Available Reports: Lists available reports (including those that can be or have been generated) for a valid canvas account id.
List calendar events for a user: Retrieves calendar events and assignments for a specific user from canvas lms, supporting extensive filtering options detailed in the request schema.
List communication messages: Retrieves communication messages from canvas.
List communication channels: Retrieves a list of communication channels associated with a specific user in canvas.
List content exports: Retrieves a paginated list of content exports from canvas for a specified, existing course.
List courses: Retrieves a list of the current user's courses from canvas, optionally filtered by enrollment type and state.
List Courses for a User: Retrieves a list of courses in canvas for a specified `user id`, requiring observer or admin permissions to view courses for others.
List Course Users: Retrieves a paginated list of users for a given canvas `course id` (which must be an existing course), supporting various filtering, sorting, and data inclusion options.
List Discussion Entries: Tool to retrieve paginated discussion entries for a specific discussion topic in a course. use when needing to list all posts and replies under a given topic, supports pagination.
List Discussion Topics: Retrieves a paginated list of discussion topics or announcements for a specified course.
List Files: Fetches metadata (id, name, size, type, urls) for all files within a specified canvas course.
List folders: Retrieves a list of immediate sub-folders within the specified `folder id`.
List pages for a course: Retrieves a list of wiki pages associated with a specific, existing course in canvas.
List Quizzes in Course: Retrieves a paginated list of quizzes for a specified, valid canvas course, optionally filtering by a search term in the quiz title.
List sent content shares: Retrieves content shares sent by the specified user to other users or courses within canvas.
List submissions: Fetches gradebook history submissions for a specific course, assignment, grader, and date from canvas.
List submissions for multiple assignments: Retrieves submissions from a canvas course for specified assignments and/or students; the course must be accessible.
List uncollated submission versions: Retrieves a feed of uncollated submission versions from the gradebook history for a course; any provided `assignment id` must be valid for the course, and any `user id` must be for a user enrolled in the course.
List users in account: Use this action to retrieve all users associated with a specific, existing canvas account id.
Reply to discussion entry: Tool to reply to a discussion entry. use when you need to send a message to a discussion entry with optional attachments.
Retrieve enrollment term: Retrieves detailed information for a specific enrollment term within a given root account in canvas.
Start a Report: Initiates an asynchronous report generation for a canvas account, using a valid report type for the account; the response confirms initiation and may include progress tracking details.
Translate File Reference: Resolves a file's migration id to its current representation within a specific canvas course.
Update Appointment Group: Updates an existing canvas appointment group by its id; only provided fields are modified, but `publish` defaults to `false` if omitted. the `appointment group id` must be valid.
Update course: Updates an existing course, specified by its id, with new attributes or triggers a lifecycle event like 'conclude' or 'delete'.
Update course settings: Updates various settings for an existing course in canvas, identified by `course id`.
Update file: Modifies an existing file's name or relocates it to a new parent folder; the target folder, if specified, must be valid and in the file's original context.
Update page for a course: Updates an existing wiki page in a canvas course; if setting as front page, it must also be or be made published.
Update quiz submission scores: Updates scores, comments for questions, and/or applies fudge points to a specific quiz submission attempt; the attempt must be completed and referenced by valid, existing course, quiz, and submission ids.
Update User Settings: Updates a canvas user's preferences for various interface elements and content interaction behaviors.
Upload a course file: Uploads a file to an accessible canvas course, optionally to a specific folder (created if a non-existent `parent folder path` is provided) and with defined behavior for duplicate filenames.
Upload submission file: Uploads a submission file for an assignment in a canvas course for a specified `user id`; this user must be enrolled, the assignment open for them, and 'masquerade' permissions may be needed if `user id` isn't 'self'.