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  **Official repo:** github.com/RohanMuppa/brightspace-mcp-server · [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/brightspace-mcp-server) — forks of this README are not maintained.
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- **Contents:** [Try It](#try-it) · [Install](#install) · [Supported schools](#supported-schools) ·
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- [Session Expired?](#session-expired) · [No browser?](#no-browser-paste-a-session-cookie-or-token) ·
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- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) ·
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- [Does it work with ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf or Claude Code?](#does-it-work-with-chatgpt-cursor-windsurf-or-claude-code) ·
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- [Is my password safe?](#is-my-password-safe) · [Does my school work?](#does-my-school-work) ·
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- [Why do I have to approve MFA sometimes?](#why-do-i-have-to-approve-mfa-sometimes) ·
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- [What You Can Ask About](#what-you-can-ask-about)
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  > **By [Rohan Muppa](https://github.com/rohanmuppa), ECE @ Purdue**
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- Talk to your Brightspace courses with AI. Ask about grades, due dates, quizzes, announcements, and more. Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT Desktop, Windsurf, and any MCP client.
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+ Lets your AI see your Brightspace classes, so you can just ask:
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- This is an [MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that connects your AI to D2L Brightspace so it can pull your grades, assignments, syllabus, and course content on demand.
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+ > "What's due this week?" · "Am I passing all my classes?" · "Summarize today's announcements" · "Turn my lecture slides into flashcards"
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- Connects to D2L Brightspace. Automatic login supports Purdue's Microsoft Entra flow, SUNY campus selection, Western University, TU Delft NetID via SURFconext, CUNY Login, and Leiden University via SURFconext and Microsoft Entra. Other schools need a compatible automated sign-in flow; unsupported login pages return an actionable error.
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+ Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT Desktop, Windsurf, and any other app that supports [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) (the standard way to plug tools into an AI). It only **reads** your courses — it never submits, edits, or deletes anything.
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  <p align="center">
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  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RohanMuppa/brightspace-mcp-server/main/docs/how-it-works.svg" alt="Architecture diagram" width="100%">
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- ## Try It
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- > "Download my lecture slides and turn them into interactive flashcards"
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- > "Grab every assignment rubric and build me a visual dashboard of what I need to hit for an A"
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- ## Install
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+ ## Get started in 3 steps
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- **You need:** [Node.js 20+](https://nodejs.org/) and a native credential store: macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, or Linux Secret Service (requires `secret-tool` and an unlocked keyring — install `libsecret-tools` on Debian/Ubuntu, or your distribution's `secret-tool` package). A container or SSH session without Secret Service can't persist authentication in v2.
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+ 1. **Install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/)** (version 20 or newer) if you don't have it. Download, run the installer, done.
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+ 2. **Open a terminal and run the setup:**
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+ ```bash
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+ npx -y brightspace-mcp-server@latest setup
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+ ```
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+ It asks for your school's Brightspace address, your username and password, and how you normally do two-factor sign-in (phone approval, authenticator code, or a browser window). Your password goes into your computer's own password store (Keychain on Mac, Credential Manager on Windows), never into a file. At the end it connects itself to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code if you have them.
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+ 3. **Restart your AI app and ask it something** — the first question signs you in. If your phone asks you to approve a sign-in, approve it and ask again.
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- **Option 1: Let your AI do it**
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+ At one of these schools, add the flag and skip typing the address: `--purdue`, `--suny`, `--western`, `--tudelft`, `--cuny`, `--leiden`.
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- Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Codex, or any AI coding assistant:
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+ **Rather have the AI install it for you?** Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, or Codex:
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  ```
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  (use --purdue at Purdue, --suny at SUNY, --tudelft at TU Delft, --cuny at CUNY, or --leiden at Leiden).
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- **Option 2: Run it yourself**
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- ```bash
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- Purdue students can add `--purdue` to skip entering the school URL:
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- SUNY campuses share one Brightspace site, so `--suny` also asks which campus
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- TU Delft students can use `--tudelft` to select the Brightspace URL and NetID login:
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- Use your NetID rather than your student email address. The TU Delft flow is headless NetID username and password sign-in only, including automatic re-authentication when the saved session expires; it does not support MFA or any other interactive step. If your account requires one, [open an issue](https://github.com/RohanMuppa/brightspace-mcp-server/issues) — that tenant isn't supported yet.
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- CUNY students can add `--cuny`. Sign in with your full CUNY Login address
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+ Using a different AI app? Add the command `npx -y brightspace-mcp-server@latest` to its MCP settings (on Windows: `cmd /c npx -y brightspace-mcp-server@latest`). Exact steps for each app: [docs/troubleshooting.md](docs/troubleshooting.md).
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- The wizard saves your password in the native credential store and asks how you'll complete MFA: wait for approval or number matching, enter a terminal code from Google Authenticator or another app, or use a visible browser for other interactive methods. It can also configure Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex Desktop and CLI, and Claude Code when installed — restart your AI client when it finishes.
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- Any other D2L school: run `setup` without a flag and paste your Brightspace URL (for example `https://yourschool.brightspace.com`).
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- Search your client's docs for how to add an MCP server. The server command to register is:
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- On **Windows**, npx must be wrapped: `cmd /c npx -y brightspace-mcp-server@latest`
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- You still need to run `npx -y brightspace-mcp-server@latest setup` first to save your credentials.
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- For Codex Desktop and Codex CLI, run:
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- Building against this server or opening a PR? See [STABILITY.md](STABILITY.md) for what's safe to rely on and what counts as a breaking change.
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- **Running from a source checkout or fork?** When a newer release is published, the server tells a source checkout to `git pull` and `npm run build` rather than to install the npm package. For a fork you maintain, set `D2L_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1` in the server's environment to turn off upstream update notices.
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- | Purdue | Microsoft Entra (number matching, authenticator code, or visible browser) | `--purdue` |
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- | SUNY | Shared tenant with a campus picker | `--suny` |
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- | Western University | Microsoft Entra | `--western` |
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- | TU Delft | NetID via SURFconext (headless, no MFA) | `--tudelft` |
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- **Normal days:** tokens renew over HTTPS, and a background browser silently replays your saved Microsoft session (silent SSO) if it lapses.
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- **When MFA is asked:** the number to approve shows up right in the tool's response, and sign-in finishes in the background — approve it, call the tool again, and use the newest number if one goes stale. TOTP apps (Google Authenticator, etc.) get prompted via the terminal; visible-browser mode opens a window instead, though automatic recovery during a tool call still runs headless unless you set `D2L_HEADLESS=false`. On Duo, sign-in auto-answers "Is this your device?" with **yes**, since a headless run has nobody to click it — this also makes Duo remember the device, so skip it on shared machines. Set `D2L_DUO_PASSCODE` to swap the push for a typed passcode. On Microsoft's MFA page, setting `D2L_REMEMBER_MFA=true` makes the server tick "Don't ask again" when your school offers it, so later sign-ins can skip the second factor; how long that lasts is the school's setting, not the server's. It is off by default — leave it off on a shared machine — and `get_server_info` shows whether the box was ticked, offered, or left alone.
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+ | SUNY | Shared site with a campus picker | `--suny` |
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+ | Assignments and rubrics | "What does the lab 4 spec actually ask for?" · "Why did I lose points on the analysis criterion?" |
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+ | Quizzes and exams | "Which quizzes close this week?" · "Is there a midterm in the gradebook that isn't on my assignments list?" |
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+ | Announcements | "Did any professor post something important today?" · "Read the file attached to today's announcement" |
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+ | `D2L_SESSION_COOKIE` / `D2L_ACCESS_TOKEN` | Skip the browser entirely with a pasted cookie or token ([how](docs/sign-in.md#no-browser-paste-a-session-cookie-or-token)) |
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- | Assignments | "What's due in the next 48 hours?" · "Summarize every assignment I haven't turned in yet" · "Give me the link to submit HW 4" |
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- | Quizzes | "Which quizzes close this week?" · "Is Quiz 3 timed, and does it have a grace period?" |
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- | Assignment files | "What does the lab 4 spec actually ask for?" · "Summarize the rubric attached to the project" |
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- | Rubrics | "What does the rubric for Lab 4 actually want?" · "Why did I lose points on the analysis criterion?" — `get_assignment_rubric` returns the full criteria groups, levels, and point values for a dropbox assignment, plus your own graded outcome per criterion when the tenant exposes it |
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- | Announcements | "Did any professor post something important today?" · "What did my CS prof announce this week?" · "Any announcements since last Monday?" · "Read the file attached to today's announcement" · "Save the rubric my prof attached to that announcement" |
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- | Course content | "Find the midterm review slides" · "Download every PDF from Module 5" · "What's new in this course since I last checked?" |
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- | Roster | "Who are the TAs for ECE 264?" · "Get me my instructor's email" |
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- | Groups | "Who is in my project group?" · "List my lab group members for this course" |
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- | Discussions | "What are people saying in the final project thread?" · "Summarize the latest discussion posts" |
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- | Search | "Search this course for the midterm review slides" · "Has anyone posted about office hours?" — searches content, announcements, and discussions by keyword in one call instead of reading the whole content tree |
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- | Video transcripts | "What did the professor say about pinch-off in Tuesday's lecture recording?" · "Summarize last week's BoilerCast video" — works for Kaltura and YouTube embeds; other platforms report that they aren't supported yet |
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- | Troubleshooting | "Which version of the Brightspace server am I running?" · "Where is my Brightspace config file?" · "What timezone are my due dates being computed in?" — `get_server_info` reports the version, Node runtime, platform, config and session paths, school URL, whether a credential is stored, the server's local timezone and UTC offset (`localTimezone`, `utcOffsetMinutes`), who the session is signed in as when known (`signedInAs: { uniqueName, displayName }`), what Microsoft remembered (`microsoftSession`: stay-signed-in and its expiry, plus whether "Don't ask again" was ticked, already on, not offered, or left off because `D2L_REMEMBER_MFA` isn't set), and `requests` (lightweight counters: responses by status class, network errors, cache hits/misses, coalesced in-flight joins, and token refreshes), without contacting Brightspace or revealing secrets |
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- | Calendar | "When is my midterm?" · "What's on my calendar this week?" · "Is lab cancelled on Thursday?" — reads exams, labs, review sessions, and deadlines instructors put only on the course calendar |
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- | Planning | "Build me a study schedule based on my upcoming due dates" · "Which class needs the most attention right now?" — pulls from assignments, quizzes, graded discussion topics (any topic with a due date), and course calendar events such as exams and labs |
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- | `grade_audit` | `courseId` (optional) | Analyzes grades for one course, or all of them, and flags missing or low-scoring items |
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- | `study_planner` | `daysAhead` (optional, default 7) | Plans study time from upcoming due dates and calendar events |
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- | `course_summary` | `courseId` (required) | Syllabus, content outline, assignments, and grades for one course |
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+ Tool reference, response fields, and environment variables: [LLMs.md](LLMs.md). What's safe to build against: [STABILITY.md](STABILITY.md). Licensed under the MIT License.
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  "mcpName": "io.github.rohanmuppa/brightspace",
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  "description": "MCP server for Brightspace (D2L). Check grades, due dates, assignments, announcements, syllabus, rosters and more via Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP client.",
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