Canvas Integration — Automate Canvas with AI on Beauto

Canvas is a learning management system supporting online courses, assignments, grading, and collaboration, widely used by schools and universities for virtual classrooms

Category: online courses, education · 573 actions available

What you can automate with Canvas

Beauto connects Canvas with 900+ other apps so you can build AI-powered workflows in minutes. Trigger automations from Canvas events, enrich Canvas data with AI, or sync Canvas with the rest of your stack — without writing code.

  • Sync Canvas data with Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and more
  • Trigger AI agents on new Canvas events and route the output anywhere
  • Schedule recurring Canvas tasks — daily reports, cleanups, or bulk updates
  • Use natural language to describe the workflow; Beauto builds it for you

Canvas actions Beauto supports

  • Abort Quiz Report Generation — Aborts 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.
  • Add conversation message — Tool to add a message to an existing Canvas conversation. Use when sending a follow-up message to a conversation thread with specified recipients.
  • Add course to favorites — Tool 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.
  • Add group to favorites — Tool 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.
  • Add last attended date — Tool 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.
  • Add recipients to conversation — Tool 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.
  • Add users to content share — Tool to send a previously created content share to additional users. Use when you need to add more recipients to an existing content share.
  • Answer quiz questions — Tool 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.
  • Assign unassigned members to group category — Tool 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 gro
  • Clear Course Nicknames — Tool to remove all stored course nicknames for the current user. Use when you need to clear all custom course name preferences.
  • Close notification for user — Tool 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 destr
  • Conclude, deactivate, or delete an enrollment — Tool 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.
  • Copy File to Folder — Copies an existing Canvas file to a specified destination folder. Use when you need to duplicate a file to another location.
  • Copy Folder — Tool 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.
  • 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 a user content migration — Tool 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 proces
  • 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 via GraphQL — Tool 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.
  • Create assignment group — Create a new assignment group for a course. Use when you need to add a new assignment group to organize assignments in a Canvas course.
  • 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`,
  • Batch create overrides in a course — Tool 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_
  • Create blackout date for course — Tool 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.
  • Create Bookmark — Creates 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.
  • 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
  • Create conversation via GraphQL — Tool to create a new conversation (message) between users in Canvas via GraphQL. Use when initiating a new conversation thread with specified recipients.
  • Create a course — Creates a new course in Canvas within a specified account, with comprehensive configuration options. Returns a course object including `id` (course_id); retain this for subsequent module, page, and upload calls.
  • Create Course Grading Standard — Tool to create a new grading standard in a Canvas course. Use when you need to define a custom grading scale with grade labels and percentage thresholds for a specific course.
  • Create a custom gradebook column — Creates a new custom gradebook column in a course. Use when you need to add custom tracking fields like participation scores or extra credit to the gradebook.
  • 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 entry (GraphQL) — Tool to create a new entry in a Canvas discussion topic via GraphQL. Use when posting a message or reply to a discussion topic with optional file attachments.
  • 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 discussion topic (GraphQL) — Tool to create a new discussion topic in a course or group using the Canvas GraphQL API. Use when creating discussion topics with the GraphQL interface.
  • 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 ePub export — Tool to initiate an ePub export for a course. Use when you need to export course content in ePub format. Track progress using the Progress API URL returned in the response.
  • Create External Feed — Creates a new external RSS or Atom feed for a Canvas course. Use when you need to import external content into a course feed.
  • Create External Feed for Group — Tool to create a new external RSS or Atom feed for a Canvas group. Use when you need to import external content into a group feed.

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.

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