Canvas Morning Check

Get a comprehensive status report for your courses at the start of the day or week. Identifies students who need support and upcoming deadlines.

Prerequisites

• Canvas MCP server must be running
• User must have educator/instructor role in Canvas
• For FERPA compliance,

  ENABLE_DATA_ANONYMIZATION=true

  should be set

Steps

1. Identify Target Course(s)

Ask the user which course(s) to check, or check all active courses:

Which course would you like to check? (Or say "all" for all your courses)

If user specifies a course, use that course identifier. If "all", iterate through active courses.

2. Get Recent Assignment Submissions

For each target course, use

list_assignments

to find assignments due in the past 7 days, then use

get_assignment_analytics

for each:

Data to collect:

• Submission rate (submitted / enrolled)
• Average score
• High/low scores
• Late submission count

3. Identify Struggling Students

Use

list_submissions

to find students missing multiple assignments:

Flag students who:

• Are missing 2+ assignments in the past 2 weeks
• Have submitted late more than twice
• Have average grade below 70%

Group by urgency:

• Critical: Missing 3+ assignments or grade below 60%
• Needs attention: Missing 2 assignments or grade 60-70%
• On track: All submissions current, grade above 70%

4. Check Upcoming Deadlines

Use

list_assignments

filtered to next 7 days:

Show:

• Assignment name
• Due date/time
• Point value
• Current submission count (if submissions have started)

5. Generate Status Report

Output a structured report:

## Course Status: [Course Name]

### Submission Overview
| Assignment | Due Date | Submitted | Rate | Avg Score |
|------------|----------|-----------|------|-----------|
| Quiz 3     | Dec 20   | 28/32     | 88%  | 85.2      |
| Essay 2    | Dec 22   | 25/32     | 78%  | --        |

### Students Needing Support
**Critical (3+ missing):**
- Student_a8f7e23 (missing: Quiz 3, Essay 2, HW 5)

**Needs Attention (2 missing):**
- Student_c9b21f8 (missing: Essay 2, HW 5)
- Student_d3e45f1 (missing: Quiz 3, Essay 2)

### Upcoming This Week
- **Dec 26:** Final Project (100 pts) - 5 submitted so far
- **Dec 28:** Discussion 8 (20 pts)

### Suggested Actions
1. Send reminder to 3 students with critical status
2. Review Essay 2 submissions (78% rate, below average)
3. Post announcement about Final Project deadline

6. Offer Follow-up Actions

After presenting the report, offer:

Would you like me to:
1. Draft a message to struggling students
2. Send reminders about upcoming deadlines
3. Get detailed analytics for a specific assignment
4. Check another course

Example Usage

User: "Morning check for CS 101"

Claude: [Runs the skill, outputs status report]

User: "Send a reminder to students missing Quiz 3"

Claude: [Uses

send_conversation

to message identified students]

Notes

• With anonymization enabled, student names appear as

  Student_xxxxxxxx

• Keep local mapping file to correlate anonymous IDs with real students
• This skill works best when run weekly (Monday mornings)
• Pairs well with

  /canvas-week-plan

  for students