IE Student MCP

Your IE Connects community and Blackboard coursework, available to your AI assistant.

One local MCP server. Guided sign-in. 34 typed tools. No administrator API keys. For Codex, OpenClaw, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and other local stdio MCP hosts.

Help me connect my IE accounts, then show my upcoming classes, events and deadlines.

Find the reading for my next class and download the PDF.

Show my grades and feedback, and find the officers of the finance club.

The server imports the independent IE Connects client and IE Blackboard client. It does not copy their authentication or API code.

Install

Prerequisites: uv, Git, a Chrome-family browser, and your own IE account. uv installs Python 3.11 automatically if needed. Run on the computer holding your browser session—not an unrelated remote container.

Choose your host and run one command:

# Codex CLI, desktop app and IDE extension
uvx --from git+https://github.com/victor-gurbani/IEStudentMCP.git@v1.0.0 ie-student-mcp setup --host codex

# OpenClaw with its native `openclaw mcp` commands
uvx --from git+https://github.com/victor-gurbani/IEStudentMCP.git@v1.0.0 ie-student-mcp setup --host openclaw

# Claude Desktop
uvx --from git+https://github.com/victor-gurbani/IEStudentMCP.git@v1.0.0 ie-student-mcp setup --host claude-desktop

# Claude Code (user scope)
uvx --from git+https://github.com/victor-gurbani/IEStudentMCP.git@v1.0.0 ie-student-mcp setup --host claude-code

Setup installs a persistent uv tool environment, writes an absolute launch path, preserves unrelated host settings, and privately backs up existing config before changing it. Clearing uvx's temporary cache won't break it. Use --dry-run to preview; --replace deliberately replaces only a conflicting ie-student entry.

Restart/reload the host's MCP connections, then ask your agent:

Use IE Student MCP and guide me through setup.

No model API key or separate inference service is needed; the server does not call a model.

Other hosts / manual setup

uv tool install --python 3.11 git+https://github.com/victor-gurbani/IEStudentMCP.git@v1.0.0
ie-student-mcp config --host generic

Paste the generated mcpServers.ie-student entry into your host, or merge it:

ie-student-mcp install --host generic --config /absolute/path/to/mcp.json

VS Code's native MCP configuration uses servers instead of mcpServers, with type: "stdio". Other wrappers may differ; the launch command is the same. Remote-only hosts such as ChatGPT web cannot directly launch this local stdio server. See installation details.

Related MCP server: Canvas MCP Server

Guided sign-in

The server starts without authentication. Agents discover setup through ie_get_started, the get_started prompt, or ie-student://guide.

1. ie_browser_profiles lists browser names/IDs without reading cookie values.

2. ie_auth_status independently checks connects and blackboard without opening browsers.

3. ie_configure_auth saves only the chosen source, browser and profile.

4. When you want to sign in, ie_login_start opens/reuses that local browser and returns immediately. Complete passwords and MFA only in the browser.

5. ie_login_status verifies completion. If its three-minute wait expires, finish in the still-open browser, then use ie_auth_status.

Choose each service independently. Isolated mode shares the established CLI profiles at ports 18920/18921, not your normal profile. Ordinary queries never open browsers. Cookies and tokens stay inside the browser/client process, never MCP arguments, configuration or logs.

Terminal alternatives:

ie-student-mcp profiles
ie-student-mcp configure connects --source system --profile "My Profile"
ie-student-mcp configure blackboard --source isolated
ie-student-mcp login connects --check
ie-student-mcp login blackboard
ie-student-mcp doctor --live

Coverage

Read-only at IE: no registrations, joins, sent messages, bookings, payments, test starts, submissions, completion marks or fabricated attendance. ID-card/ticket QR credentials and raw API access are deliberately excluded. Profile configuration, explicit login and downloads are marked non-read-only because they change local state.

Limits are 1–50 items per page, with explicit continuation/truncation notices and bounded output. Some collections paginate locally rather than with server cursors. See tool reference, architecture, and security.

Compatibility

• Python 3.11+; macOS, Linux and Windows browser-path discovery. On Windows, app-bound cookie encryption may prevent normal-profile extraction; use isolated, not weaker encryption.

• Live IE authentication is verified on macOS. Cross-platform CI exercises code/protocol/configuration, not real Windows/Linux sign-in or Claude Desktop's UI.

• Earlier MCP hosts are supported; a raw 2024-11-05 protocol handshake is regression-tested.

• Student permissions apply. Restricted Blackboard authoring/admin fields and external LTI/IE Publishing tools remain outside the server. A launch link is not a completion result.

• Retrieved text/documents are untrusted data. No telemetry, network listener, model inference or periodic background monitoring.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/victor-gurbani/IEStudentMCP.git
cd IEStudentMCP
uv sync --group dev
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format --check .
uv build

Both clients are pinned to full Git SHAs; uv.lock records development dependencies. Update pins deliberately and rerun all checks. See verification and changelog.

Unofficial; not affiliated with IE, Blackboard, CampusGroups, OpenAI or Anthropic. This adapter is MIT-licensed; dependencies retain their own licenses.