Canvas-MCP Brings Free AI Assistant Access to Student Course Data

Students can now connect their Canvas LMS courses to Claude or ChatGPT using canvas-mcp, a new free open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI assistants answer questions about deadlines, grades, and missing work. The MIT-licensed connector, available on GitHub, wraps Canvas's REST API and provides 26 read-only tools organized around the questions students actually ask: "What's due this week?", "What am I missing?", and "What feedback did I get?"