Connect Perplexity AI and Canvas LMS integrations
Transform your Canvas LMS courses with AI-powered intelligence by automatically delivering research-driven content from Perplexity AI directly into your learning environment. Eliminate manual updates and enrich your educational materials instantly—Make connects Perplexity AI insights to Canvas LMS, creating a workflow that keeps your course content current, comprehensive, and cutting-edge.
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Build your Perplexity AI and Canvas LMS integrations.
Integrate Canvas LMS as a trigger and Perplexity AI as an action through Make's automation platform to create powerful educational workflows. When Canvas LMS generates research-based content or AI-driven insights as a trigger event, Make automatically executes actions in Perplexity AI such as populating courses with AI-generated summaries, updating course materials, enriching educational resources, or synchronizing knowledge base content. This automation enables you to automatically transfer AI-powered research outputs from Canvas LMS directly into your Perplexity AI learning environment, eliminating manual data transfer and simplifying the process of improving course materials with intelligent content.
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Popular Perplexity AI and Canvas LMS workflows.
Looking to get more out of Perplexity AI and Canvas LMS? With Make you can visually integrate Perplexity AI and Canvas LMS into any workflow to save time and resources — no coding required. Try any of these templates in just a few clicks.
How to setup Perplexity AI and Canvas LMS in 5 easy steps
Get your Canvas LMS access token
Log into Canvas LMS and click on your profile in the top right corner, then select Settings. Scroll down to find the Approved Integrations section and generate a new API token, which is a special code that lets Make connect to your Canvas account. Copy this token and keep it safe for the next step.
Connect Canvas LMS to Make
Open your Make account and add a Canvas LMS module to your workflow. Click the Create a connection button when prompted, then paste the API token you copied from Canvas into the authentication field. You can give your connection a name to help you remember it later, then save your connection.
Generate your Perplexity AI API key
Sign into Perplexity AI and click the Settings icon next to your username. Navigate to the API section in the left sidebar, create a new API group, then go to the API Keys tab and click Create Key. Copy this key immediately and store it securely, as you'll need it to connect with Make.
Connect Perplexity AI to Make
In your Make account, add a Perplexity AI module to your scenario and click Create a connection. Paste the API key you copied from Perplexity AI into the API Key field. You can optionally name this connection for quick identification, then save your settings to complete the connection.
Confirm and start using your connections
After entering all required information for both applications, click Save to finalize each connection. If prompted, authenticate and confirm that you want to grant Make access to these applications. Once both connections are saved, you can start building automated workflows that connect Canvas LMS and Perplexity AI together.
Transform learning with AI-powered Canvas LMS integration
Integrate Perplexity AI with Canvas LMS to automatically improve course content, generate intelligent feedback, and provide students with real-time research support—all within their learning environment.
Automatically enrich Canvas course materials with up-to-date research and knowledge from Perplexity AI, ensuring students always have access to current information.
Generate comprehensive, AI-powered feedback and explanations for student assignments by sending Canvas submissions to Perplexity AI for analysis.
Automatically create and update course FAQs and supplementary resources in Canvas by querying Perplexity AI based on common student questions and topics.
Keep Canvas course announcements and discussion boards enriched with the latest information by triggering Perplexity AI searches based on curriculum topics.
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