This week's deadlines
Sarah Chen, head of science at Northwind, asks what is due across her courses this week. Memtro reads each course's assignments by due date. It lists them with points possible and submission types.
Canvas LMS + Memtro
What is due in Biology 101 this week, and what did we tell students?
Memtro reads your institution's own Canvas site: courses with term, teachers and student counts, modules with their items, assignments by due date and recent announcements. It never reads grades, submissions or messages. It sees what its dedicated service account can see. When asked, and once an administrator has granted the action by name, it posts announcements, sends inbox messages, replies in discussions, creates assignments, pages, modules and calendar events, and enrols or removes users. Announcements and messages notify students and cannot be recalled. Deleting an assignment removes its submissions, and deleting an enrolment is permanent.
In Memtro
What you can do with Canvas LMS in Memtro
Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Canvas LMS tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.
What it does
- 01Lists courses with code, term, dates, teachers and Canvas's own count of enrolled students.
- 02Shows a course's modules in order, with their pages, assignments, quizzes, files and links, and whether each is published.
- 03Lists assignments by due date, with points possible and submission types, and reads announcements over a date range with who posted them.
- 04When asked and granted, posts an announcement, sends an inbox message to named users, or replies in a conversation or discussion. Canvas notifies recipients and a notification cannot be recalled.
- 05When asked and granted, creates draft discussions, assignments, pages, modules, module items and calendar events, publishes or changes them, and deletes an assignment with its submissions.
- 06When asked and granted, enrols a user in a course, or concludes, deactivates or permanently deletes an enrolment.
Acts when asked
When you ask it to
These tools change something in Canvas LMS. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
- 01Create a draft (unpublished) discussion topic in a course
- 02Post an announcement to a course
- 03Send an inbox message to named users
- 04Reply in an inbox conversation
- 05Create an assignment
- 06Change an assignment's name, dates, points, description or published state
- 07Delete an assignment
- 08Edit, publish or unpublish a discussion or announcement
- 09Reply in a discussion
- 10Add an event to a course, group or user calendar
- 11Create a course page
- 12Create a module
- 13Rename, reorder, publish or unpublish a module
- 14Add an item to a module
- 15Enrol a user in a course
- 16Conclude, deactivate or delete an enrolment
In practice
Ask it like you would a colleague
Once Canvas LMS is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.
Canvas LMS + Memtro
What is due in Biology 101 this week?
How many students are on Biology 101?
Which modules are still unpublished in Chemistry 201?
Draft a discussion topic for week 3 of Biology 101 on the lab results.
Post an announcement to Biology 101 that Thursday's lab moves to room 4.
A room change
Dan Fletcher, a teaching assistant at Northwind, asks Memtro to tell Biology 101 that Thursday's lab has moved to room 4. Memtro posts the announcement in the words he approved, and Canvas notifies every student in the course by their own notification settings.
Teams
Where it fits
The teams that lean on Canvas LMS most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.
- People and onboardingThe answers a new hire would otherwise ask around forNew starter, Manager, People lead, Hiring manager“How do I request a laptop, and who approves it?”Used alongside Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, Slack, Google Calendar and 5 more.
- LeadershipOne question across the whole companyFounder, Chief executive, Department head, Board member“What happened with our top ten accounts this week, and is anything at risk?”Used alongside HubSpot, Help Scout, Xero, Stripe, Linear and 6 more.
- OperationsMonitors and digests that run themselvesOperations lead, Analyst, Team manager, Administrator“List my jobs”Used alongside Help Scout, Stripe, Xero, Postgres, ShipEngine and 8 more.
Better together
Works with
A record in Canvas LMS is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.
- Finance and commerceCanvas LMS with XeroInvoices, bills, contacts and reports, answered in plain English with figures cited to Xero.
- Finance and commerceCanvas LMS with StripeCustomers, charges, invoices and subscriptions through a restricted key.
- Finance and commerceCanvas LMS with FellohBookings, payments, refunds, chargebacks, supplier payments and payouts from the travel payments platform.
- Work managementCanvas LMS with JiraJQL search, issue details and projects from Jira Cloud.
- Work managementCanvas LMS with Clio ManageAsk the matter: its client, its fee earner, the time on it and what is still unbilled.
- Work managementCanvas LMS with LinearIssues, projects and teams, synced hourly into memory.
- Email, calendar and chatCanvas LMS with GmailSearch and read mail so the last thread with a customer is one question away, and send the reply when you ask.
- Email, calendar and chatCanvas LMS with SlackSearch messages, read channel history and threads, post when you ask, and answer when mentioned.
- Email, calendar and chatCanvas LMS with Google CalendarMeetings in a window, event details, and the next two weeks synced into memory, and events it can create, change or cancel when you ask.
Also in People and HR
Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.
BambooHR- Personio
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Google Workspace
- HiBob
- Greenhouse
Ashby
Breathe HR
Lever
Workable
Deel
Factorial HR
Pinpoint
Recruitee- Teamtailor
CharlieHR
Deputy
Humaans- Connecteam
JazzHR- Rippling
- Sage HR
SmartRecruiters- Staffology Payroll
- Bonusly
Lattice- Moodle
15Five
Homerun- Hubstaff
Jibble
Leapsome
LearnUpon
Planday- Remote
7shifts
Timetastic
Recruit CRM
Setup
How to connect
Connect withCanvas host and access token
- 1
Ask your Canvas admin for a dedicated service account, enrolled as a teacher or read-only admin in the courses Memtro should see. The actions need a role that may post, edit content or manage enrolments in those courses.
- 2
Signed in as that account, open Account → Settings → Approved Integrations → New Access Token, give the purpose Memtro, and copy the token.
- 3
In Memtro, open Connections → Canvas LMS, enter your site's host name in Canvas host, and paste the token into Access token.
- 4
Ask: what is due in Biology 101 this week?
Also works from
Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Canvas LMS tools are the same everywhere.
FAQ
Questions
Can Memtro change anything in Canvas LMS?+
Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: create a draft (unpublished) discussion topic in a course; post an announcement to a course; send an inbox message to named users; reply in an inbox conversation; create an assignment; change an assignment's name, dates, points, description or published state; delete an assignment; edit, publish or unpublish a discussion or announcement; reply in a discussion; add an event to a course, group or user calendar; create a course page; create a module; rename, reorder, publish or unpublish a module; add an item to a module; enrol a user in a course; conclude, deactivate or delete an enrolment. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
Who can use a Canvas LMS connection?+
A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.
Does Memtro store my Canvas LMS data?+
Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded.
How do I connect Canvas LMS?+
Canvas host and access token. Ask your Canvas admin for a dedicated service account, enrolled as a teacher or read-only admin in the courses Memtro should see. The actions need a role that may post, edit content or manage enrolments in those courses.
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