Canvas Helper by Toby Faucher
Quick view of Canvas courses and assignments — without leaving the browser.A quick side-panel view of your Canvas LMS courses and assignments. See what's due, filter by status or name, and stay focused — without leaving the page you're working on.
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About this extension
Canvas Helper is a lightweight side-panel companion for Canvas LMS. It shows
your active courses and the assignments inside each one, so you can scan
what's due without switching tabs or hunting through Canvas's navigation.
Features:
How it works: the extension reuses your existing Canvas login session to call
Canvas's official REST API. Nothing is sent to any third party. All preferences
are stored locally in your browser.
Source: https://github.com/<your-username>/canvas-scrape
License: MIT
your active courses and the assignments inside each one, so you can scan
what's due without switching tabs or hunting through Canvas's navigation.
Features:
- One-click access to all active courses
- Per-course assignment list with due date, points, and submission status
- Filter assignments by status (all / not done / done) or by name
- Live name-match highlighting
- Remembers your last selected course and filter across browser sessions
- Works with any Canvas instance (any *.instructure.com subdomain)
- Auto-detects which Canvas you're logged into — no tokens, no setup
How it works: the extension reuses your existing Canvas login session to call
Canvas's official REST API. Nothing is sent to any third party. All preferences
are stored locally in your browser.
Source: https://github.com/<your-username>/canvas-scrape
License: MIT
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Permissions and data
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for sites in the instructure.com domain
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
More information
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- Version
- 0.1.0
- Size
- 29.17 KB
- Last updated
- 4 days ago (May 5, 2026)
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- License
- MIT License
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