What it does

Reads D2L Brightspace course content, assignments, and grades for a student account. The honest framing is that this automates something a student already does by hand and does not make the underlying course better. Scope the login to your own account only.

Install

Terminal

npx -y brightspace-mcp-server

Client configuration

Paste this into your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any client that reads mcpServers), then restart the client.

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brightspace": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "brightspace-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Use it for

Students checking course content and due dates in one place

Skip it if

Institutional administration; this is a personal convenience tool

When to use it

Reach for this when the task needs education inside the agent loop. Skip it if a plain shell command or a one-off script is enough — every server you add costs context and adds a failure mode.

Other TypeScript servers

Filesystem — Gives an agent scoped read, write, and search access to directories you explicitly allow
Memory — A persistent knowledge graph stored in a local JSON file, exposed through entities, relations, and observations
Sequential Thinking — Gives the model a scratchpad for structured, revisable reasoning: numbered thoughts that can branch, revise, and conclude

Brightspace MCP