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Canvas+

by BetterCampus

v0.4.7 Updated Feb 26, 2024 1.07MiB
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70K
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★ 4.03
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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years

Description

Canvas+ is a free Chrome Browser extension that improves the experience of students using Canvas. Everything you could need, from color themes, to navigation shortcuts, to improved performance. The extension has an easy-to-use settings menu, and all of our features are toggle-able. You have a full suite of appearance settings, including dark and dim mode, custom link colors, and custom sidebar colors and layouts. Quick Inbox opens a popup on the left side of the page, allowing you to check previews of your emails without reloading the page and possibly losing what you were working on. If enabled, the Speed Boost feature will preload links while you're idling, resulting in much faster loading speeds of 2x or 4x on struggling connections. A feature to improve navigation is the search box. The search box can be enabled with Control+K (Command+K on Mac) or with a sidebar button and allows you to search all of your courses for pages and module items. Rounder Modules does just as the name says, it makes canvas modules rounder. If the "Smart Scrolling" setting is enabled, you'll see "Scroll to Bottom" and "Back to Top" buttons on pages, discussions, and modules/assignment lists. This can greatly speed up navigating a course with hundreds of modules. You can see more features that are being worked on at https://github.com/canvasplus/extension . This project is open source. The website for Canvas+ is currently https://canvasplus.org/ . This website serves as a hub for FAQ and announcements.
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Reviews (8 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-22
Sienna Jade

doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-09
Adriana DuPont

Unfortunately does not work for me. I am trying to use it but it says "no access needed" and won't change anything on the site.

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-08
Lea Cabaleiro

Is not working. Don't know how to fix. Says "can't read or change site's data" which I'm assuming is not supposed to be the case because it's meant to change the site's data. How can I fix?

★☆☆☆☆2022-09-28
James Scheff

Completely killed my battery life. I have the brand new Macbook Air M2 chip and It ran just fine until I downloaded this extension. My battery life went from about 11-12 hours to not even 3 hours where all I am doing is typing in a google doc. I know its this extension because I told my computer to kill the Crome tab that had the most energy impact, and every time it was Canvis. This was not an issue for anyone else in my class. For reference a normal tab's energy impact is between 0- 12 and the canvas tab with this extension is 400. I tried removing the tab and it was still drawing this amount of power. I have tried everything it has messed up my google account.

★★☆☆☆2022-09-11
Kevin Wang

With the extension, Canvas would overheat my M1 Mac and severely decrease its battery life. After disabling the extension, the battery life of my mac returned to normal and wasn't nearly as hot. Love the features, but severely limits my mac.

★★★☆☆2025-11-10
Jack Crane

Does not work because of URL permissions in the manifest. My school has "canvas.(ourschool).edu" and because that does not match "instructure" then it does not launch!

★★★☆☆2025-02-24
Jakub Polzer

I really want to use this but my canvas page is not *://*.instructure.com

★★★☆☆2024-04-12
Saul Evilman

Doesn't work if your school's Canvas page doesn't have the word infrastructure in it's url. No way to add your school's own url to get it to work if it doesn't have the term infrastructure in it unfortunetly. Not sure if/when an update bringing this extensions to other schools will come.

Permissions (1)

Permissions

storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.4.7
Updated Feb 26, 2024
Size 1.07MiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026