Canvas
Students ask your AI agent about due dates, grades, and enrollment. The agent pulls live data from Canvas LMS and answers instantly. Advisors and help desk staff spend less time on routine questions and more time on the students who need real guidance.
Your AI agent taps directly into Canvas LMS to look up courses, check grades, find assignments, and handle scheduling, so students get answers without waiting in line.
Canvas
From midnight assignment questions to enrollment verifications, see how AI handles the routine inquiries that flood campus help desks.
A student messages at 11 PM: 'What is due this week for Biology 101?' Your AI Agent queries Canvas for all assignments in that course with due dates in the current week, retrieves titles, point values, and submission types, and lists them in order. The student plans their study schedule without waiting for the professor's office hours. Help desk tickets about assignment due dates drop dramatically.
A student needs to confirm their enrollment for a financial aid form. They ask the AI Agent, which pulls their Canvas enrollment records showing course names, section numbers, and enrollment status. The student gets an instant confirmation. The registrar's office handles fewer verification requests, freeing staff for complex cases that need human judgment.
A student considering whether to drop a course asks, 'What are my current grades in Chemistry?' Your AI Agent retrieves their assignment scores, quiz results, and overall course grade from Canvas. The student sees they have a B+ and decides to stay. Academic advisors spend less time running manual grade lookups for students who just need a quick status check.
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FAQs
The agent calls Canvas's Get All Assignments endpoint with the course ID. It retrieves assignment names, due dates, point values, submission types, and descriptions. For a specific assignment, it uses Get Assignment with the assignment ID. Results are filtered to show only what is relevant to the student's question.
Yes. The agent uses Canvas's Get Single Submission endpoint, which retrieves only the requesting student's submission and score for a specific assignment. Canvas enforces access controls at the API level, so one student cannot see another's grades through the agent.
Tars needs a Canvas API access token scoped to the appropriate level. Student-facing operations need read access to courses, assignments, enrollments, and submissions. Administrative features like creating notifications require an admin-level token. Tokens are generated in Canvas account settings.
No. All data is queried from Canvas in real time during conversations. Student grades, enrollment records, and course information are fetched live and used only to answer the current question. Tars does not maintain a database of student academic records.
Yes. The agent first retrieves the student's enrolled courses via Canvas's List Courses endpoint, then queries assignments or grades within each relevant course. If a student asks 'What is due this week across all my classes,' the agent aggregates results from multiple courses into a single response.
Tars does not store student education records, which supports FERPA compliance. Data flows from Canvas to the student in real time without persistent storage. However, each institution should review the integration against their own FERPA policies and configure access tokens with appropriate scope restrictions.
The Canvas app requires students to navigate menus, find the right course, and locate assignments or grades themselves. The Tars AI Agent answers natural language questions instantly, like 'When is my next quiz?' without any navigation. It also works on WhatsApp and web chat, meeting students where they already communicate.
Yes. With an instructor-level API token, the agent can create assignments, post discussion topics, upload course files, and send account notifications targeted to specific roles. Instructors manage routine course operations through conversation instead of navigating the Canvas admin interface.
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