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

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

4. 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 /week-plan for students