D2L Brightspace

D2L Brightspace MCP Connector for Claude

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Manage your D2L Brightspace LMS — administer courses, track student grades, and manage enrollments directly through your AI agent.

33 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your D2L Brightspace environment to any AI agent to streamline learning management and administrative workflows.

What you can do

  • Course Management — Retrieve course details, create new offerings, and copy course content between org units using get_course and copy_course.
  • User Administration — List system users, create new accounts, and manage roles and permissions with list_users and create_user.
  • Grade Tracking — Access grade lists and update individual student grades for specific assignments using get_user_grade and update_user_grade.
  • Content & Communication — Explore course modules, manage discussion forums, and create new topics or posts via list_root_modules and create_post.
  • Assessments — Monitor quizzes, surveys, and assignment submissions, and provide direct feedback using list_submissions and provide_feedback.

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Provide your Brightspace Host URL and Access Token
  3. Start managing your educational ecosystem from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

  • Instructors — Quickly check student progress, provide feedback on assignments, and manage course content without navigating complex menus.
  • LMS Administrators — Automate user creation, enrollment management, and organizational unit structuring.
  • Academic Researchers — Extract course data and assessment metrics for analysis through natural language queries.
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33 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

copy_course

Initiate a course copy job

create_course

Create a course offering

create_enrollment

Enroll a user in an org unit

create_lti_deployment

Create an LTI Advantage tool deployment

create_org_unit

Create custom org units

create_post

Create a post in a discussion topic

create_topic

Create a discussion topic in a forum

create_user

Create a new user

delete_enrollment

Unenroll a user from an org unit

get_course_template

Retrieve course template info

get_course

Retrieve course details

get_org_unit

Retrieve org unit properties

get_user_grade

Retrieve user grades for a specific grade object

list_assignment_folders

List assignment folders (dropboxes)

list_forums

List discussion forums in a course

list_grades

List grade objects for a course

list_legacy_lti_links

List legacy LTI 1.1 links

list_lti_registrations

List LTI Advantage tool registrations

list_my_eportfolio_objects

List current user ePortfolio objects

list_my_enrollments

List current user enrollments

list_org_unit_children

List child units of an org unit

list_quiz_attempts

List attempts for a specific quiz

list_quizzes

List quizzes in a course

list_roles

Retrieve system roles

list_root_modules

List root modules of course materials

list_submissions

List submissions for an assignment folder

list_surveys

List surveys in a course

list_users

Search or page through users

provide_feedback

Provide feedback for an assignment submission

update_user_grade

Update a user grade

update_user

Update user data

upload_eportfolio_artifact

Upload a file artifact to ePortfolio

get_whoami

Retrieve current user context

See how to talk to your AI agent using D2L Brightspace.

List all users in my Brightspace instance.

I've retrieved the user list. There are currently 150 users registered. Would you like to filter them by role or search for a specific name?

Show me the details for course org unit 8821.

Course Unit 8821 is 'Introduction to Computer Science'. It is currently active with 45 students enrolled. Would you like to see the root modules or the grade list for this course?

Get the grade for user 554 in course 8821.

User 554 (John Doe) has a current grade of 88% in course 8821. This includes 3 completed assignments and 1 pending quiz.

Yes. By using the `get_user_grade` tool with the appropriate Org Unit ID and User ID, the agent can retrieve the current grade details for that student.

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