📚 Microsoft Education MCP Server

⚠️ This is a personal project. It is not affiliated with or maintained by Microsoft.

This project is a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built to integrate with Microsoft Graph API for Education.

It enables Claude Desktop or other MCP-compatible tools to manage:

• ✅ Microsoft Education Classes
• ✅ Assignments (create, update, target students)
• ✅ Rubrics (create, attach, list)
• ✅ Students and teachers (roster)
• ✅ Submissions and grading

Built for AI-driven tools, testing, and intelligent prompt integration.

🚀 Features

• 🔐 Microsoft delegated authentication (OAuth via MSAL)
• 🧑‍🏫 Class & roster exploration
• 📝 Assignment creation, updating, and student targeting
• 🎓 Rubric creation and re-use
• 📤 View assignment submissions & outcomes
• 🧠 Designed for Claude Desktop & Model Context clients

📂 Structure

🔍 Key Components

• start-mcp-server.js

  • Loads and registers all tools.
  • Manages Microsoft authentication via MSAL.
  • Starts the MCP server using the Model Context Protocol SDK.

• tools/ folder

  • Each file defines a set of related tools and registers them with the server.
  • Tools follow the MCP standard (server.tool(...)) with Zod schema validation and Microsoft Graph integration.

• .env

  • Stores sensitive Microsoft app credentials and config.
  • Required to authenticate with Microsoft Graph API.

• Example.env

  • A safe template for sharing or onboarding collaborators.

This layout makes it easy to:

• Add or modify functionality (just add a file in tools/)
• Keep logic separated by domain (e.g., assignments vs rubrics)
• Support clean and scalable MCP integration

🏗 How to Register the Application in Entra ID (Azure AD)

To use Microsoft Graph API with this project, you need to register an app in Entra ID:

1. Go to Microsoft Entra Admin Center

• Visit: https://entra.microsoft.com
• Sign in with an admin account.

2. Register a New Application

1. Navigate to "Applications" → "App registrations"

2. Click "New registration"

3. Fill in:

   • Name: Microsoft Education MCP Server (or any name you prefer)
   • Supported account types: Choose based on your scenario (usually "Accounts in this organizational directory only")
   • Redirect URI:
     • Platform: Web
     • URI: http://localhost:3000/auth/callback (or your custom URI)

4. Click "Register"

3. Configure API Permissions

1. After registration, go to "API permissions"

2. Click "Add a permission" → Microsoft Graph → Delegated permissions

3. Add the following:

   • User.ReadWrite.All
   • EduAssignments.ReadWrite.All
   • EduRoster.ReadWrite.All
   • EduRubrics.ReadWrite
   • offline_access
   • openid
   • profile

4. Click "Grant admin consent" to approve them for your tenant.

4. Generate a Client Secret

1. Go to "Certificates & secrets"
2. Under Client secrets, click "New client secret"
3. Add a description and choose an expiration (e.g. 6 months or 12 months)
4. Click "Add"
5. Copy the value — you won’t be able to see it again!

5. Save These Values in a notepad

After registration, go to "Overview" and copy these values:

CLIENT_ID=your-application-id
CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secret
TENANT_ID=your-directory-id
REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:3000/auth/callback

📥 Clone the Repository and Install Dependencies

Follow these steps to get the project running locally:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/jesegher/EduMCPServer.git
cd EDUMCPServer

2. Install dependencies

npm install

or manually

npm install @modelcontextprotocol/sdk axios zod dotenv @azure/msal-node

🧠 Run with Claude Desktop

To use this MCP server with Claude Desktop, add the following to your Claude Desktop claude.settings.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Education-Data": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "C:\\path\\to\\your\\project\\start-mcp-server.js"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TENANT_ID": "your-tenant-id",
        "CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
        "CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret",
        "REDIRECT_URI": "http://localhost:3000/auth/callback",
        "PORT": "3000"
      }
    }
  }
}

💡 Replace the path and environment variables with your actual configuration details.

⚠️ Make sure to shutdown Claude every time you make a change. You need to kill it in the task manager.

Claude will automatically detect the MCP Server and the registered tools.

As soon as you request data, an authentication flow will be started. You can always trigger it manually by calling auth-login. I've noticed that Claude not always give you the url, you can find, and copy it from the call it makes to the authentication server if needed. [Fix in progress]

🧠 Scenario: Remediation Flow for Underperforming Students

This is a structured walkthrough based on original prompts for data analysis and follow-up instruction.

📝 Original Prompts

1. Find my assignment 'lineair equation' in my algebra course. Give me the name, instructions and the due date.

2. I want an overview in table format of all underperforming students. I want their name, their feedback I provided, and the rubric if there is one associated. I want one line per student. Split up the rubric separate items.

3. Can you analyze the rubric feedback and find commonalities.

4. Based on this feedback, what are some ideas to remediate this.

5. I want them to practice variations.

6. Translate this into an assignment and rubric.

7. Create for those students a new draft assignment with this information ... Give them two weeks to complete it.

Each prompt serves as a step in a larger automated or AI-assisted education workflow:

• Retrieving targeted assignments
• Analyzing rubric-aligned feedback
• Identifying patterns in student work
• Recommending learning interventions
• Creating and assigning personalized remediation tasks