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Canvas + OpenClaw

Give your autonomous agents a live connection to Canvas: managed, secure, and ready in minutes.

Canvas is a learning management system for online courses, assignments, grading, and collaboration. On Molted, your OpenClaw agents connect to Canvas through the managed MCP integration layer, with no glue code, no servers to run, and no credentials baked into containers. The agent can automate tasks and connect this tool to the rest of your stack for Canvas, autonomously and within the guardrails you set.

Available actions

87 ready-to-use Canvas actions.

Your OpenClaw agents can call any of these Canvas actions directly through Molted's managed MCP layer. No wrappers, no boilerplate.

CANVAS_CREATE_ACCOUNT_NOTIFICATION

Create account notification

Creates a global notification within a canvas account, ensuring `end at` is after `start at` and any specified `notification roles` are valid.

CANVAS_CREATE_APPOINTMENT_GROUP

Create appointment group

Creates a new appointment group in canvas for schedulable time slots within specified course or group contexts.

CANVAS_CREATE_ASSIGNMENT

Create an assignment

Creates a new assignment within a specified course in canvas lms.

CANVAS_CREATE_ASSIGNMENT_OVERRIDE

Create assignment override

Creates an assignment override to adjust due/unlock/lock dates for an assignment in a course, targeting specific students (requires `title`), a group, or a…

CANVAS_CREATE_CALENDAR_EVENT

Create Calendar Event

Creates a calendar event with options for recurrence (finite `rrule` series only), section-specific timings, and blackout dates within a specified context.

CANVAS_CREATE_COMMUNICATION_CHANNEL

Create communication channel

Creates a new communication channel (e.g., email, sms, push) for an existing canvas user to receive notifications.

CANVAS_CREATE_CONTENT_SHARE

Create content share

Shares a canvas content item to specified users, if the sender has necessary permissions and receiver ids are valid.

CANVAS_CREATE_CONVERSATION

Create conversation

Use to send messages in canvas by creating a new conversation or adding to an existing one; an existing conversation with the same recipients (and matching…

CANVAS_CREATE_COURSE

Create a course

Creates a new course in canvas within a specified account, with comprehensive configuration options.

CANVAS_CREATE_DISCUSSION_ENTRY

Create discussion entry

Tool to create a new entry in a canvas discussion topic. use when posting a message with optional attachments to a discussion topic.

+ 77 more Canvas actions, all callable by your agents.

How the connection works

Connect once. The agent acts.

Connecting Canvas is a one-click OAuth approval: no keys to copy, and access can be revoked at any time. Everything runs through Molted's managed MCP layer, so there is no integration code to write and nothing to keep running.

01

The agent requests access

Your OpenClaw agent asks for Canvas when a task needs it.

02

You approve the connection

Authorize Canvas once (OAuth 2.0). Credentials are encrypted at rest and scoped to what you allow.

03

The agent acts

It reads and writes to Canvas autonomously, inside your guardrails, with full audit and revocable access.

Auth: OAuth 2.0Category: Tools & UtilitiesNo credentials in the pod

FAQ

Canvas on Molted, answered.

Q.01

Can OpenClaw agents use Canvas on Molted?

Yes. Canvas is one of 1,000+ apps available through Molted's managed MCP integration layer. Your agent requests access, you approve the connection, and it can act on Canvas straight away, with no integration code to write or maintain.

Q.02

How do I connect Canvas to my agent?

Connecting Canvas is a one-click OAuth approval: no keys to copy, and access can be revoked at any time.

Q.03

What can an agent actually do with Canvas?

Within the permissions you grant, an agent can automate tasks and connect this tool to the rest of your stack. Have your agent use Canvas to read and write data as one step in a longer autonomous workflow.

Q.04

Is my Canvas data and credentials secure?

Yes. Molted never bakes credentials into the agent's pod: every connection is brokered through the managed integration layer, secrets are encrypted at rest, and access stays scoped to what you approve. You can revoke Canvas access at any time.

Q.05

Do I have to run any infrastructure to use Canvas?

No. Molted is the managed operating environment for autonomous agents: compute, the MCP layer, browser automation and self-healing are all handled for you. Connecting Canvas is a configuration step, not an engineering project.

Q.06

Can I limit what an agent is allowed to do in Canvas?

Yes. Access to Canvas is scoped to exactly what you approve and is revocable at any time. Agents act within the guardrails you set, and every action stays auditable.

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