Udemy Alternative MCP. Manage student Q&A, DMs, and reviews from your chat client.

The Instructor Dashboard Hub: Managing Student Interaction Without Switching Tabs

Yo, listen up. You're gonna connect your AI client to this server and you'll never wanna leave it. This thing gives your agent the keys to your whole instructor backend—the direct messaging, the Q&A boards, everything. It lets you handle student comms right from where you are talking to your agent.

Forget jumping between tabs or logging into another portal; we keep all the threads and questions in one place.

Getting Your Course Picture Straight

Need a list of what courses you're actually teaching? You just run list_courses. That spits out every single course on your roster. It's how you make sure your agent knows exactly which class is getting the attention it needs.

Monitoring Student Reviews and Ratings

You gotta keep an eye on what students are saying about your work, right? To track that feedback loop, use list_reviews. This pulls all student ratings and reviews for the courses you've published. You can monitor overall class performance and see exactly where you need to tweak things.

Mastering Q&A Discussions

Dealing with questions is a full-time job. The server gives you deep control over your course discussion boards. First, run list_questions to get a quick overview of every question that’s been posted—the unanswered stuff or the recent ones pop up here.

If a specific student query catches your eye, use get_question. This grabs all the initial context and any replies already posted for that single thread. You can check out everything that's gone down there before you chime in. If you gotta respond, you run create_question_reply to post your answer directly to the board.

Need to shut down a question? Run delete_question, and it removes the whole thing from the discussion.

To see what advice or answers have already been given on a thread, use list_question_replies. And if you've dealt with it, run update_question so your dashboard status stays clean—it marks that question as reviewed or read.

Handling Direct Messages (DMs)

Your inbox is where the real action is. To see what’s going on, start by running list_message_threads. That shows you every active conversation thread in your direct message area. You can then select a specific thread using get_message_thread to pull up all the details for that single chat.

Once you're in there, use list_messages to see every individual message contained within that specific thread ID. If you need to reply to a student directly, just run create_message, and your agent sends it right into the existing conversation. And don’t forget the status updates: if you read a whole bunch of chats or want to flag something for later, use update_message_thread.

That lets you mark conversations as read or star them up for follow-up.

This server is your single source of truth. You've got tools to pull all courses (list_courses), check the student feedback (list_reviews), manage every question from posting to replying and deleting it (get_question, create_question_reply, delete_question), and you can keep your DMs locked down, reading threads, sending replies, and marking statuses (list_message_threads, update_message_thread).

You're gonna run a tighter ship with this setup. It’s built for course managers who need to see student engagement without leaving their client window.