Instructure Canvas LMS integration

Education · 5 actions · Custom auth

Learning management system for course, assignment, and user management via the Canvas REST API.

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Overview

The ModuleX Instructure Canvas LMS integration lets a ModuleX agent operate Instructure Canvas LMS on your behalf — running update, find and list actions across accounts, assignments and courses — directly from a plain-English request, using your organization's own Instructure Canvas LMS credentials. No pre-built workflow is required: the agent picks the right Instructure Canvas LMS action for the task.

Instructure Canvas LMS is an education platform. ModuleX adds the agent layer: ask for an outcome and it selects and runs the right Instructure Canvas LMS action — or, when you want a repeatable process, the composer assembles a Instructure Canvas LMS workflow for you, streaming the nodes onto the canvas as it builds.

Ask the assistant

Drive Instructure Canvas LMS in plain English

Type what you want. A ModuleX agent picks the right Instructure Canvas LMS action — or chains several — and runs it. No workflow to build.

Find the assignment I describe and update it
resolves tolist_assignmentsupdate_assignment
Show me the accounts that match what I describe
resolves tolist_accounts

Use cases

What you can automate with Instructure Canvas LMS

Find the right assignment and update it in one promptlist_assignmentsupdate_assignment
Pull a list of accounts for a reportlist_accounts
Find the course contents that match what you describesearch_course_content

At a glance

Instructure Canvas LMS integration at a glance

VendorInstructure Canvas LMS

CategoryEducation

Actions available5

AuthenticationCustom

Uses your own credentialsYes

Works with the assistantYes

Works in the composerYes

Multi-step / tool-chainingYes

Technical referenceView docs

Integration version1.0.0

Last updatedJun 2026

Reference

All 5 Instructure Canvas LMS actions

Accounts1

list_accounts

List Canvas accounts accessible to the authenticated user.

Assignments2

list_assignments

Retrieve a list of assignments for a user in a specific course.

update_assignment

Update an existing assignment in a course.

Courses1

list_courses

List all courses associated with a given user.

Course Contents1

search_course_content

Search for content in a course using Canvas smart search.

See full parameters and response schemas in the Instructure Canvas LMS integration docs

Two ways

Two ways to use Instructure Canvas LMS in ModuleX

Ask the assistantType what you want done and a ModuleX agent picks the right Instructure Canvas LMS action and runs it — no workflow to build.

Compose a workflowNeed it to happen every time? Describe the process and the composer wires Instructure Canvas LMS into a repeatable workflow you can run on a schedule, from chat, or as an API.

Security

Connecting Instructure Canvas LMS

CustomInstructure Canvas LMS uses a custom authentication flow. ModuleX encrypts whatever credentials you supply and scopes them to your organization.

Step-by-step setup in the Instructure Canvas LMS docs

FAQ

Instructure Canvas LMS + ModuleX FAQ

A ModuleX agent can run any of Instructure Canvas LMS's 5 actions — across accounts, assignments, courses and course contents — from a plain-English request, using your organization's own Instructure Canvas LMS credentials.

No. The agent selects the right Instructure Canvas LMS action from your prompt. A workflow is only needed when you want a repeatable process — and the composer builds that for you from a description.

Through a secure Instructure Canvas LMS connection; your credentials are stored encrypted and scoped to your organization.

5, spanning accounts, assignments, courses and course contents.

Instructure Canvas LMS runs on your own credentials, so any Instructure Canvas LMS usage is billed by Instructure Canvas LMS directly. ModuleX meters the agent run — and if you connect your own model keys, there's no ModuleX markup on model usage.

Put Instructure Canvas LMS to work in ModuleX.

Connect Instructure Canvas LMS once with your own credentials and let your agent run all 5 actions on demand.

Put Instructure Canvas LMS to work View technical docs

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