Project Idea Feasibility - Get any student data with their credentials

[RohanShah_]

Hello, I am currently attempting to build a project that helps students get organized, and I was wondering if the canvas API was capable of allowing students to log in with a modal on my frontend so my app can get access to their course names and the meta data about their assignments.

I've done a good amount of research, but it seems the canvas api is mostly for instructors to create within-institution apps for their courses and changing their courses.

My main question is would something like this would even be possible? A student could go to a third party app, log into a canvas modal to generate a key for their course data, get assignment data from those courses, and then the app would use that canvas data for some output.

[matthew_buckett]

Yes, that is very much possible. If you get the student to authenticate you can then ask Canvas about their upcoming assignment and the courses they are enrolled in. I think this is how the Canvas Student App works and I believe it uses the same API that is available to you (https://api.instructure.com).

It sound like an interesting project and good luck.