--- title: "Canvas LMS API: connect it to your AI chat ยท Hypamoon" description: "The Canvas LMS API is open and signs in with a personal access token. What your AI chat can build with it on Hypamoon, with sources." url: https://hypamoon.com/connect-to/canvas-lms --- 1. [Connect to](https://hypamoon.com/connect-to) 2. Canvas LMS Education, sports and fitness # Connect Canvas LMS to Hypamoon Yes. Canvas LMS has a public, versioned API and you create the key yourself, so your chat can write the adapter. Open ## The check Three questions about the API of Canvas LMS, answered from its own docs. **Public API docs**\ **Yes.** Public REST API documentation. [Read the docs](https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/) **A key you create yourself**\ **Yes.** A user generates an access token under Approved Integrations in the profile; developer keys for OAuth are issued by the institution's admin. [canvas.instructure.com](https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html) **Versions or a changelog**\ **Yes.** Paths under /api/v1/ and an API change log page that points to the Canvas LMS changelog in the community. [canvas.instructure.com](https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.changelog.html) **How it signs in**\ A personal access token for testing and own use, or OAuth 2.0 with a developer key from your institution's admin. **Webhooks**\ **Not confirmed.** **Hosting**\ Cloud and self-hosted ## What you can build Pull courses, assignments and grades into your own overview, and remind students about missing work from your chat. Your chat writes it as a Hypamoon adapter from the docs above. Reading starts after you click Allow in the portal, and every write waits for your approval, one call at a time. [How adapters work](https://hypamoon.com/docs/adapters) ### Good to know - Your adapter uses a fixed key: you paste it once in the Hypamoon portal, never in the chat, and it only goes to the API host you allow. - If you host it yourself, the API of your own installation must be reachable over HTTPS from the internet, so the adapter can call it. - Canvas is open source and offered as a hosted service by Instructure. Real time events go through Canvas Live Events, which an admin sets up. ## Try it in your chat Fill in what to read and write, and send it. Say this in your chat > Build the Hypamoon recipe build-an-adapter for Canvas LMS. API docs: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/. Read: \[what\]. Write: \[what, or nothing\]. [Open in Claude](https://claude.ai/new?q=Build%20the%20Hypamoon%20recipe%20build-an-adapter%20for%20Canvas%20LMS.%20API%20docs%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fcanvas.instructure.com%2Fdoc%2Fapi%2F.%20Read%3A%20%5Bwhat%5D.%20Write%3A%20%5Bwhat%2C%20or%20nothing%5D.) In Claude, or another chat with the full Hypamoon connection; adapters are not in ChatGPT yet. You paste the key in the portal, never in the chat. [The full recipe](https://hypamoon.com/r/build-an-adapter) ## Sources Checked on 7 November 2026. - [canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/](https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/) - [canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html](https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.oauth.html) - [canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.changelog.html](https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.changelog.html) Canvas LMS is a name of its owner, used here only to describe the software. This page is not an official integration and Hypamoon has no partnership with Canvas LMS. Found something that changed? 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Ask the chat to check its API. The same three checks work for any software. Your chat reads the vendor's own docs and tells you what it found. Say this in your chat > Check if \[software\] has an open API that a Hypamoon adapter can use: public API docs, a key or token I can create myself without asking the vendor, and versions or a changelog. Link the pages you used. [Open in Claude](https://claude.ai/new?q=Check%20if%20%5Bsoftware%5D%20has%20an%20open%20API%20that%20a%20Hypamoon%20adapter%20can%20use%3A%20public%20API%20docs%2C%20a%20key%20or%20token%20I%20can%20create%20myself%20without%20asking%20the%20vendor%2C%20and%20versions%20or%20a%20changelog.%20Link%20the%20pages%20you%20used.) [Open in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/?q=Check%20if%20%5Bsoftware%5D%20has%20an%20open%20API%20that%20a%20Hypamoon%20adapter%20can%20use%3A%20public%20API%20docs%2C%20a%20key%20or%20token%20I%20can%20create%20myself%20without%20asking%20the%20vendor%2C%20and%20versions%20or%20a%20changelog.%20Link%20the%20pages%20you%20used.) Fill in the name of your software. Checking needs no connection to Hypamoon. ## Ready to connect Canvas LMS? Connect your chat once, then ask it to build the adapter. [Start free](https://app.hypamoon.com/?mode=signup&utm_source=connect-to&utm_campaign=canvas-lms) Works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. [Add to Claude](https://hypamoon.com/connect?via=connect-to~canvas-lms#claude) [Add to ChatGPT](https://hypamoon.com/connect?via=connect-to~canvas-lms#chatgpt) [Add to Copilot](https://hypamoon.com/docs/microsoft-copilot)