Brightspace MCP Server

Check if you are authenticated with Brightspace. Run the brightspace-auth CLI first to authenticate. Use this when the user asks if they're logged in, if authentication is working, or when other tools return auth errors.

Fetch your enrolled Brightspace courses with names, codes, and IDs. Use this when the user asks about their courses, enrolled classes, what they're taking this semester, or needs a course ID for other queries.

Fetch upcoming due dates across all your courses. Shows assignments, quizzes, and other items due within the specified time window. Use this when the user asks about deadlines, what's due, upcoming work, or what they need to do this week.

Fetch your grade breakdown for a specific course or all enrolled courses. Shows grade items with points, percentages, and comments. Use this when the user asks about grades, scores, marks, GPA, academic performance, or how they're doing in a class.

Fetch recent announcements from your courses. Can filter to a specific course or get announcements across all courses. Use this when the user asks about announcements, news, updates from instructors, recent posts, or what professors said.

Fetch assignments and quizzes for a specific course or all enrolled courses. Shows dropbox submissions and quizzes with due dates, status, and rubric info. Use this when the user asks about assignments, homework, what to submit, quizzes, or assignment details and rubrics.

Fetch the content tree for a course showing modules, topics, files, and links. Use this when the user asks about course materials, lecture slides, uploaded files, content structure, or what's in a course module. Use moduleTitle to filter to a specific module (e.g. 'Labs', 'Staff', 'Homeworks') instead of fetching the entire tree. Use maxDepth to limit recursion depth for a table-of-contents view.

Download a file from course content or assignment submissions to a local directory. Use this when the user wants to download, save, or get a file from Brightspace course content or dropbox submissions. IMPORTANT: You MUST ask the user where they want to save the file before calling this tool. Never guess or assume a download directory. After identifying the file to download, suggest a clean readable filename to the user (e.g., 'Lecture 7 - Memory Management.pdf' instead of 'L07_CS251_2026SP_v2.pdf') and ask if they'd like to rename it. Pass their preferred name as customFilename, or omit it to keep the original.

Fetch all email addresses for everyone in a course — instructors, TAs, and students. Use this when the user wants a list of emails for a class, needs to email the whole class, or wants contact info for everyone enrolled.

Fetch the roster for a course including instructors, TAs, and optionally students with their names, emails, and roles. Use this when the user asks about classmates, instructor contact info, TA emails, professor names, or who's in a class. By default returns only instructors and TAs for privacy. Use includeStudents to get full class list.

Fetch the syllabus/overview text and optional attachment for a course. Returns the course overview description as markdown. If downloadPath is provided, also downloads the syllabus attachment (e.g. PDF). IMPORTANT: You MUST ask the user where they want to save the file before calling this tool with a downloadPath.

Fetch discussion board content for a course including forums, topics, and posts. Use this when the user asks about discussion boards, forum posts, class discussions, or wants to see what's been posted. Provide just courseId to list all forums and their topics. Add forumId to get topics and posts for a specific forum. Add both forumId and topicId to get all posts in a specific discussion topic.