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, derived from the due dates on assignments (dropbox folders), quizzes, and graded discussion topics themselves, plus course calendar events such as exams and labs (type: event). Use this when the user asks about deadlines, what's due, upcoming work, or what they need to do this week.

Fetch course calendar events — exams, midterms, labs, recitations, review sessions, schedule changes, and deadlines instructors typed straight onto the calendar — across all your courses or one course, in a time window (default: the next 7 days). Use this when the user asks when an exam is, what's on their calendar, or what's happening 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. Attachments are listed per announcement; fetch them with download_file (newsId + fileId) or read them with get_announcement_files.

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. Read submissionStatus/attemptStatus, not just submission/attemptsUsed, to decide whether something was turned in: some tenants deny students access to submission or attempt data, in which case the status is "unknown" even though submission is null or attemptsUsed is 0. Never report an "unknown" item as missing, unsubmitted, or not attempted - say it could not be verified and point the user to Brightspace.

Fetch the full grading rubric for a dropbox assignment: every criteria group, criterion, and achievement level with its points and description, plus the student's own graded outcome per criterion once it has been released. Use this when the user asks what a rubric wants, how an assignment will be graded, or why they got a particular score on a criterion.

Read the files an instructor attached to an assignment: the spec or instructions PDF, a starter workbook, a rubric document. Call it with just courseId to see which assignments have attachments, then with folderId and fileId to read one. Use this when the user asks what an assignment requires, what the instructions say, or to summarize a handout. Returns the text itself. Use download_file instead when the user wants the file saved to disk.

Read the files an instructor attached to an announcement: prompt questions, a rubric, an updated schedule, slides. Call it with just courseId to see which announcements have attachments, then with newsId and fileId to read one. Use this when the user asks what a file attached to an announcement says. Returns the text itself. Use download_file (newsId + fileId) instead when the user wants the file saved to disk.

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. A module or topic that isn't currently available carries isAvailable/availabilityStatus/availabilityMessage (and startDate/endDate when known) explaining why; absence of these fields means it's available now.

Download a file from course content, assignment submissions, or an announcement's attachments. Use this when the user wants a file from Brightspace course content, dropbox submissions, or an announcement (newsId + fileId, from get_announcements). Two response modes: (1) INLINE (default — omit downloadPath): the file comes back directly in the tool response — extracted text for PDFs and Office documents, an image block for jpeg/png/gif/webp, or a short description for anything else — so it can be read immediately without touching any filesystem. This is the right choice in clients like Claude Desktop, whose analysis/sandbox tools cannot see a file the MCP server writes to its own host filesystem. (2) DISK (set downloadPath to an absolute path on the HOST filesystem the MCP server runs on): the file is saved there. Ask the user where to save it before using disk mode — never guess a directory. After identifying the file, suggest a clean readable filename (e.g., 'Lecture 7 - Memory Management.pdf' instead of 'L07_CS251_2026SP_v2.pdf') and pass it as customFilename, or omit it to keep the original. If a content-topic download fails because the file isn't released yet, the response explains why when Brightspace's module/topic metadata supports it (not yet open, ended, locked, or hidden).

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.

List the current user's project/discussion groups in a course, with each group's members. Use this when a student asks who is in their project group, lab group, or discussion group.

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.

Read the transcript of a video embedded in course content, such as a recorded lecture or explainer clip. Call it with courseId and topicId from get_course_content (typeFilter: 'video' or 'other'), or with videoUrl directly if you already have the link. Returns transcript text with timestamps, plus title and duration when available. Currently supports Kaltura (e.g. BoilerCast) and YouTube; other platforms return a clear message naming what isn't supported yet. Use offset/maxChars to page through a long transcript. Read only — this never marks the video as watched.

Report which version of the Brightspace MCP server is running, the Node.js runtime, platform, config file path, session state directory, configured school URL, whether a credential is stored, the server's local timezone and UTC offset, (once a browser sign-in has been saved) what Microsoft remembered: stay-signed-in and the Don't ask again MFA checkbox, (when signed in) the account's uniqueName/displayName as signedInAs, and this process's request counters (requests: responses by status class, network errors, cache hits/misses, coalesced joins, and token refreshes). Use this for troubleshooting, when the user asks which version they have, or what timezone/account dates are being computed against. Never contacts Brightspace and never returns secrets.

Search a course's content (modules, topics, file names), announcements, and discussion forums/topics by keyword in a single call, instead of reading the whole content tree. Use this when the user wants to find something specific, e.g. 'find the midterm review slides' or 'did anyone post about office hours'. Results are ranked: a result matching every query term ranks above one matching only some, and within that, a match in the title ranks above one only in the body text. If one source (e.g. discussions) can't be read, it's skipped and named in note rather than failing the whole search. This fans out over the entire content tree, announcements, and every discussion forum, so it can be slower than calling a single tool like get_course_content directly.

List all assignment/dropbox folders for a course, for an instructor or TA. Returns folder ID, name, due date, start/end dates, submission type, visibility, and whether rubrics are attached. Use this to discover folderId values before calling get_dropbox_submissions, get_dropbox_user_submissions, get_dropbox_feedback, or get_rubrics_for_object. This reads the same folder listing a student's own client uses, so it is not gated to instructor/TA accounts the way get_dropbox_submissions, get_dropbox_feedback, and download_dropbox_submission_file are.

List every student's (or group's) submission to a dropbox folder, for an instructor or TA — submitter names, submission dates, late status, file lists, and feedback/grading status. Use get_dropbox_folders first to find folderId. Requires instructor or TA access; a student account gets a clear note instead of data (a student's own download_file / get_assignments already cover their own submission). Results are capped by limit (default 100, max 1000); a truncated response says so and only fetches feedback for the returned slice.

Retrieve all submissions made by one specific student (or group) in a dropbox folder, for an instructor or TA — useful for reviewing a single student's work before drafting feedback. Use get_dropbox_submissions or get_roster to find the userId first. Requires instructor or TA access to the course.

Retrieve the existing feedback already saved for a specific user or group in a dropbox folder, for an instructor or TA — score, graded state, feedback text, and rubric assessment detail. Use this before drafting new feedback to see what has already been recorded. Requires instructor or TA access to the course.

Retrieve the full rubric table (criteria, levels, and point values) attached to a dropbox folder, for an instructor or TA. Use get_dropbox_folders first to find folderId. Like get_dropbox_folders, this reads the folder listing's embedded rubric data, so it is not gated to instructor/TA accounts the way get_dropbox_submissions and get_dropbox_feedback are.

Download a specific file from a student's (or group's) dropbox submission to a local directory, for an instructor or TA. Use get_dropbox_submissions or get_dropbox_user_submissions first to find submissionId and fileId. Requires instructor or TA access to the course. IMPORTANT: Ask the user where they want to save the file before calling this tool. After identifying the file, suggest a clean readable filename and ask if they'd like to rename it.