Canvas LMS exposes REST and GraphQL APIs for courses, enrollments, assignments, submissions, grades, quizzes, files, analytics, users, calendars, outcomes, and administrative resources. Requests run against a Canvas institution's own HTTPS domain and authenticate with OAuth 2.0 access tokens. Canvas LMS is open source; hosted availability and access depend on the institution.
Trust signals
Pricing
FREE
Auth
OAUTH2
CORS
UNKNOWN
Rate limit
Dynamic request-cost throttling applies per access token; clients should inspect response headers and retry HTTP 403 throttling responses.
Health
281ms
Trust score
93 (A)
Last checked Sep 4, 2026 · uptime 24h 100% / 7d 100% / 30d 88.89%
Excellent production-readiness signals.
Links
- Homepagewww.instructure.com/canvas
- Documentationdeveloperdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas
- Base URLdeveloperdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas
Integration checklist
- Auth is OAUTH2— no credit card required
- CORS status unverified — test before client-side use.
- Rate limit: Dynamic request-cost throttling applies per access token; clients should inspect response headers and retry HTTP 403 throttling responses.