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An AI teammate for Canvas.

Connect Canvas and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 87 Canvas actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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Things to ask about Canvas
  • What's new in Canvas this week?
  • Pull the latest from Canvas into a sheet.
  • Tell me when something important changes in Canvas.
  • Do the weekly Canvas update and send me the summary.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Canvas

87 Canvas actions, picked for what you ask.

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

Reads

52 in all · always allowed
  • Fetch Data
    Fetches a specific category of Canvas data (e.g., accounts, courses, users) by setting exactly one…
  • List courses
    Retrieves a list of the current user's courses from Canvas, optionally filtered by enrollment type…
  • Get Current User
    Retrieves detailed information about the currently authenticated user from the Canvas lms.
  • Get Canvas accounts
    Retrieves all Canvas accounts accessible to the authenticated user.
  • Get all assignments
    Retrieves assignments for a specified Canvas course.
  • Get submission files
    Retrieves files from a student's Canvas assignment submission, processing text, binary, and zip…
  • 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`.
  • Get all users
    Retrieves a list of users for a specified Canvas `account id` (use 'self' for the current user's…
  • Export content
    Use to initiate an asynchronous export of content (e.g., common cartridge, qti, zip) from an…

Changes

35 in all · off when Canvas is read-only
  • Create a course
    Creates a new course in Canvas within a specified account, with comprehensive configuration options.
  • Update course settings
    Updates various settings for an existing course in Canvas, identified by `course id`.
  • Create Quiz
    Creates a new quiz with various settings in a specified existing Canvas course;
  • Delete quiz
    Permanently deletes the quiz identified by `quiz id` from the course identified by `course id`;
  • Edit a quiz
    Modifies an existing Canvas quiz; only attributes with provided values in the request are updated.
  • Update file
    Modifies an existing file's name or relocates it to a new parent folder;
  • Create Folder
    Creates a new folder in Canvas within a specified context (e.g., course, user) and optional parent…
  • Create Module
    Creates a new organizational module within a specified Canvas lms course, with options for…
  • Update course
    Updates an existing course, specified by its id, with new attributes or triggers a lifecycle event…
  • Start a Report
    Initiates an asynchronous report generation for a Canvas account, using a valid report type for the…

Showing 20 of 87. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Canvas

    Open Connections, find Canvas and paste an API key from your Canvas account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Canvas with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Canvas job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Canvas, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Canvas and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Canvas?

Yes. Canvas is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Canvas?

Open Connections, find Canvas and paste an API key from your Canvas account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Canvas?

87 actions: 52 that read from Canvas and 35 that change things in it, for example fetch data, list courses, get current user. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Canvas?

Yes. In Connections, set Canvas to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Canvas from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Canvas jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Canvas data safe?

Your Canvas login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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