Slate for Canvas

Every deadline.
One honest timeline.

Slate is a Chrome extension that turns your Canvas into one clear list of everything you're supposed to do, including the deadlines that only exist in your syllabus, your course home page, or a Modules link. It plans tonight's work to fit the hours you have, and its grade math always shows its work.

Built by an SMU freshman who missed a reading in week one. Free to install.

Add to Chrome, free

About 30 seconds. Works through your own Canvas login: no password, no token, nothing to sign up for.

Tonight2h 10m of work · 3 things
Read Ch. 4, How Markets Work
ECO 1311 · that took you 40m
LearningCurve Module 3 quiz
PSYC 1300 · due 11:59 tonight
~35m
Response paper #2 draft
"Response papers are due by Friday's class…" (your syllabus, p. 3)
Canvas doesn't list this
~55m
Every estimate shows how it was made. Sample data.
You're on your phone

Slate installs on your laptop's Chrome. Phones can't run extensions, so send yourself the link for later:

slateforcanvas.com

is all you need to remember.

✉️ Email me the link

Thirty seconds, start to finish

  1. Add to Chrome

    One click on the Chrome Web Store. Nothing to sign up for.

  2. Open your Canvas

    Log in like any other day. Slate reads through your own session, in your own browser.

  3. Press Sync

    Your whole semester lands on one timeline: assignments, quizzes, exams, readings.

What it does

Finds the hidden deadlines

Turn on AI syllabus parsing and Slate reads your course documents. Every extracted deadline carries the exact sentence it came from. No quote, no deadline: Slate never invents dates.

"Exam I will be given Mon, Sep 14" · evidence shown on every parsed row

Plans your night

Pick the hours you have. Slate fits the work to them, late things first and then what's due soonest, with time estimates that learn from what you log.

Give it 2h → get a plan worth 1h 55m, nothing silently dropped

Does the grade math

Live category breakdowns, zeros flagged, and what-if projections for every course, computed from the same weights your professor set in Canvas.

"What do I need on the final for an A−?" → 91%, shown with the arithmetic

The whole semester, one page

Slate's timeline: assignments grouped by Today, Tomorrow, and Later this week, each with a time estimate and points

The timeline, with sample data.

From the Chrome Web Store

★★★★★
"Great product, having all your assignments timed out for the year, helped me so much in keeping track of everything." Grady, SMU student · verified Chrome Web Store review

Honest by design

Slate tells you where every number comes from, and what it can't see.
  • Reads Canvas through your own logged-in browser session. No password, no token, nothing to sign up for.
  • Your courses, grades, and check-offs stay in your browser. The only thing that ever leaves is a syllabus, and only if you turn parsing on.
  • Estimates say how they were made. Stale data is labeled. Sources that can't be reached say so.