The guide

Every feature.
Where to find it.

New here? Take the two-minute tour first.

Getting started

Add it to Chrome

One click from the Chrome Web Store. No account, no password.

Chrome Web Store

Setup, step by step

Opens on its own the first time. Four steps, each one retryable.

Opens by itself · the “finish setting up” mark
The four steps
  1. Your sign-ins — nothing to type. It uses the sites you're already signed in to in this Chrome.
  2. Connect — Canvas, your class schedule and your grades.
  3. Your classes — it finds each class's textbook, syllabus and homework doc. Check them, mark them reviewed, or skip for now.
  4. First pull — your homework lands on the board.

The tour

Seven stops around the board, right after setup.

Settings › Main page › Take the tour again

Your own AI key

The board works without AI. Add a key and Ask, study guides and class learning turn on.

Extension options

Any school on Canvas

Type your school's Canvas address once and the rest works there.

Settings › Connections › Your school

The board

First four

The four things to do first — by due date, size and kind.

Home

Assignments

Everything open, grouped by class, soonest first.

Right column · Assignments tab
What the marks mean

HW homework · T test · Q quiz · PS problem set · R reading · ! overdue. Hover a mark for the word.

Tick it done

Hover a row and tick it. Changed your mind? Undo it from Done.

Any row · Done tab

Class strip

Every class as a chip: the ring is how soon, the letter is the grade.

Top of Home

Calendar

Today's periods, the week, the month — whichever you like.

Left column · Calendar tab

Life stuff

Goals, practice, clubs and makeup work, kept apart from homework.

Left column · Life tab

Red marks

A sign-in ran out or a site stopped answering — the fix is one click away.

Top bar

Where a date came from

A small marker on any date that was worked out rather than given. Nothing is guessed silently.

Any row

Time estimates

About how long each thing takes, and how much is due before tomorrow ends.

Rows · the greeting

Nothing hidden

The board always says how many items it has, and how many are folded away.

Bottom of the board

As many tabs as you like

Open it in several windows. They stay in step.

Anywhere

Your classes

A page per class

What's open, the grade, links and your notes, on one page.

Click a class chip

Grade breakdown

Every grade by category, and how much of your grade each one is worth.

Class page

Syllabus weights

Canvas missing the weights? Type them in from the syllabus.

Class page

Materials, found for you

Textbook, syllabus, the teacher's homework doc and the tools the class uses.

Settings › Classes

Find the textbook

Search by title or ISBN. Free and borrowable copies are flagged.

Settings › Textbooks

Rename, recolour, reorder

A short code, a colour and a period for every class.

Settings › Classes

Switch a class off

Gone from the board and the strip at once. Switch it back any time.

Settings › Classes

It learns each teacher

How each teacher writes homework in their doc, so their work shows up with the right date.

Setup · Settings › Classes

Ask

Press Space and type

The question is about whatever is open — a class, an assignment, or everything.

The box at the bottom

Add work by saying it

“Add chem quiz Friday” adds it.

The box at the bottom

Teacher said…

Homework a teacher only said out loud, in one line.

Button above the box

Accelerate

Turn a reading into a study guide.

An open assignment

Chat history

Your last thousand messages, searchable.

History button in the chat

Speak instead

The mic button, where your Chrome supports it.

Next to Send

What it reads

Canvas

Assignments, due dates, front-page homework, announcements and grades.

Settings › Connections

Teacher docs

The homework teachers type into shared Google Docs.

Found in setup

Veracross

Your class schedule and your grades.

Settings › Connections

AP Classroom

Your assigned Progress Checks and due dates. Never the questions.

Settings › Connections

Albert.io

Assigned practice sets and whether they're done.

Settings › Connections

School mail coming

School mail only, sorted by what it wants from you.

Mail tab

Off means off

Switch any source off and its items leave the board right away.

Settings › Connections

Your own shortcuts

Add Khan Academy, Quizlet or anything else to the top bar. Up to eight.

Settings › Connections › Shortcuts

Hand work in

Send a file to a Canvas assignment without opening Canvas. Off until you switch it on.

Settings › Connections › Handing work in
How it stays safe

It shows exactly what will be sent and asks every time — there's no “don't ask again”. It never retries on its own, and every attempt is written down.

The full list, and exactly what is taken from each: supported sites.

Calendars

Bring your calendars in

TeamSnap, Google Calendar, Schoology — anything with a calendar address.

Settings › Connections › Calendars

Step-by-step for each one

Press a program's mark to get only its steps, and the page to start on.

Settings › Connections › Connect something

Games stay games

Practices and games go in Personal — never ranked against homework.

Life · Calendar

Put it in your calendar

Download everything as one file for Google, Apple or your phone. Import again to update — no duplicates.

Settings › Connections › Put this in your own calendar

Focus

Off, Reminder or Block

Open a distracting site with homework left: a reminder slides in, or the page is covered.

Settings › Focus

Your PIN

Block mode lets you through with your PIN, for as long as you choose.

Settings › Focus

School sites are never blocked

Canvas, Google Docs, AP Classroom and Albert.io always open.

Built in

Make it yours

Theme and accent

Light, warm or dark, in any accent colour.

Settings › Appearance

Background patterns

Thirteen of them, some that move slowly. Or your own image, GIF or video.

Settings › Appearance

Type and size

Pick the fonts and the text size.

Settings › Appearance

Density and motion

Compact or roomy. Five page transitions, or none.

Settings › Appearance

A format for every section

Tick more than one and that section gets little tabs to flip between them.

Settings › Main page

Order

Grades lowest-first or A to Z; assignments smart, by date, by class or longest first.

Settings › Main page

The greeting

Your name, and which page the app opens on.

Settings › Appearance

Fold away small stuff

Opt in, and the board says how many it's hiding.

Settings › Appearance

The tab strip

Short codes or full names, and which tabs show.

Settings › Appearance

Keys

Spacetype to the chat ← →previous / next tab 1–9jump to a class HHome AAssignments LLife CCalendar DDone SSettings Rrefresh Escback to Home ?all the keys

Your data

It stays in your Chrome

Everything it reads is kept on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to us.

Privacy policy

No passwords

It never asks for, stores or types a school password.

Built in

Automatic backup

Backed up inside Chrome and put back by itself if anything goes missing. Download a copy any time.

Settings › Connections › Always running

Always running

Opens pinned when Chrome starts, and keeps your school sign-ins warm.

Settings › Connections › Always running

Updates itself

Chrome installs new versions on its own.

Settings › About

See it for yourself.