Education Integration
Best AI Assistant for Canvas LMS
Carly connects to Canvas with your access token so teachers can grade, post and message faster, students and parents never miss a due date, and admins get reports, by email, text, or as workflows across every school you use.
Try Carly →What Carly can do with Canvas LMS
Everything due, in one email
Carly sends a weekly list of assignments and quizzes due across every course, even across schools.
Chase missing work
Carly finds students who haven't submitted and sends each one a Canvas message.
Faster grading and feedback
Carly reads submissions, drafts rubric-based comments for you to review, and posts grades you approve.
Reports for parents and admins
Grades, participation and progress, pulled from Canvas and sent on a schedule.
Why teachers, students and parents add an assistant to Canvas
Canvas holds everything: courses, assignments, submissions, grades, discussions and messages. Getting what you need out of it means clicking through course after course. Teachers spend evenings on submissions and reminders. Students juggle due dates across classes, sometimes across schools. Parents find out about a missing assignment after it's too late.
An assistant for Canvas should bring the important things to you and do the repetitive work: the reminder, the summary, the rubric comment, the weekly report.
How Carly works with Canvas
Connect Canvas to Carly with your school's Canvas address and an access token. Depending on what your account can do in Canvas, Carly can list courses and users, create and edit assignments, quizzes, pages, modules and discussion topics, read and grade submissions with comments, update quiz scores, upload files, create calendar events and appointment groups, send Canvas inbox messages, read current and term grades, and pull course activity and participation analytics.
Ask by email or text: "Which students haven't submitted the Unit 4 essay?" Or set up workflows. Every Sunday evening, students get one email with everything due across every course. Teachers get a nudge list of missing work each Thursday and Carly sends each student a Canvas message. A parent gets a Friday digest of grades and anything missing.
Because Carly also connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive and Sheets, Canvas due dates can land on the family calendar and grade exports can fill a spreadsheet.
Who uses Carly with Canvas
Teachers and professors who want evenings back. Students with a full course load, or at more than one school. Parents keeping up with several kids. Instructional designers and admins who need reports across courses. Some schools turn off personal access tokens, so check yours.
See it in action
How to connect Canvas LMS to Carly
Create a Canvas access token
In Canvas, open Account, then Settings, then Approved Integrations, and click New Access Token. Copy it right away. Canvas shows it once.
Paste it into Carly
In Carly, open Integrations, find Canvas LMS and click Add API Key. Enter your school's Canvas address, like https://myschool.instructure.com, and the token. Repeat for each school.
Start giving instructions
Email, text or chat Carly what you need done in Canvas, or describe a workflow, like a Sunday email of everything due, and she sets it up.
Connect Canvas LMS once, then just ask
No code. Tell Carly what you need and she does it.
Get Started →Frequently asked questions
What is the best AI tool for Canvas LMS?
Carly connects to Canvas and sends due-date digests, chases missing work, helps with grading and feedback, and sends grade and progress reports, by email, text or on a schedule.
How does Carly connect to Canvas?
With your school's Canvas address and a personal access token from Account, then Settings, then Approved Integrations. Some schools turn token creation off.
Can Carly work with more than one Canvas school?
Yes. Connect each school's Canvas with its own address and token, and Carly works across all of them.
Can Carly grade in Canvas?
Carly can read submissions, draft feedback and post grades and comments when your account has that permission. You decide whether she posts or drafts for review.
Can students and parents use Carly with Canvas?
Yes. Students can connect their own token to get due-date reminders across courses, as long as their school allows tokens.
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