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Better Canvas Chrome Extensions for Canvas LMS

For assignment tracking, grade analytics, dark mode, and GPA calculation.

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Extensions Compared
1M+
Combined Users
4
Categories Covered
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📋 Quick Picks by Use Case

📝 For Assignments
Tasks for Canvas

1M+ users, 4.7★ — clearest task and deadline view

🌙 For Dark Mode
Canvas Dark Mode

40K users, 4.6★ — focused dark theme for Canvas

📊 For GPA Tracking
Canvas GPA Calculator

6K users, 4.1★ — GPA estimation and grade planning

Feature Comparison

Side-by-side comparison of all 5 Chrome extensions for Canvas

Name
Canvas Chart Canvas Chart
Canvas Analytics Canvas Analytics
Canvas Dark Mode Canvas Dark Mode
Tasks for Canvas Tasks for Canvas
Canvas GPA Calculator Canvas GPA Calculator
📊 Store Info
Rating 4.4 ★★★★☆ 5.0 ★★★★★ 4.6 ★★★★★ 4.7 ★★★★★ 4.1 ★★★★☆
Primary Focus Visual tracking Grade analytics Dark theme Task management GPA calculation
📝 Assignment & Task Features
Assignment List ✅ Medium ✅ Overview ❌ No ✅ Strong ❌ No
Deadline Tracking ✅ Medium ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Strong ❌ No
Progress Charts ✅ Strong ✅ Grade Tracker ❌ No ❌ No ❌ No
🎨 Interface & Visual
Dark Mode ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Strong ❌ No ❌ No
Dashboard Changes ✅ Medium ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Light ❌ No
📊 Grades & GPA
GPA & Grade Tools ❌ No ✅ Quartile ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Strong
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Extension Details

A closer look at each Chrome extension and what it covers

Canvas Chart

Canvas Chart

VISUAL TRACKING ★★★★☆ 4.4 · 5K users · Free
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Adds visual progress charts and workload summaries to Canvas. Instead of scanning plain text lists, you get bar charts, pie charts, and visual breakdowns of your assignment and grade data across courses. Fills a niche that no other Canvas extension covers — visual data representation.

Key Features

  • • Visual progress charts for assignments and courses
  • • Weekly/daily workload breakdown
  • • Grade distribution and completion tracking
  • • Unique visual approach — no other extension does this
Canvas Chart interface
Canvas Analytics

Canvas Analytics

GRADE ANALYTICS ★★★★★ 5.0 · Free
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A grade analytics tool that tracks your academic performance over time. Records grade changes each time you visit a course grade page, displays a visual grade tracker graph, and calculates quartile-based grade projections. Also provides an Assignment Overview with a donut chart — all data stored locally in your browser.

Key Features

  • • Grade history tracking with visual graph
  • • Quartile-based grade projections
  • • Assignment overview with donut chart
  • • Serverless — all data stays in your browser
Canvas Analytics interface
Canvas Dark Mode

Canvas Dark Mode

DARK MODE ★★★★★ 4.6 · 40K users · Free
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A single-purpose extension that applies a dark color scheme to Canvas, focused entirely on reducing eye strain during long study sessions. With 40K users and a 4.6 rating, it has one of the highest adoption rates among Canvas extensions. Also available as a Firefox add-on.

Key Features

  • • Canvas-specific dark theme with proper contrast
  • • Lightweight — no other Canvas modifications
  • • Reduced eye strain for night-time study
  • • Also available on Firefox
Canvas Dark Mode interface
Tasks for Canvas

Tasks for Canvas

ASSIGNMENTS ★★★★★ 4.7 · 1M+ users · Free
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A task management overlay for Canvas that reorganizes assignment information into a cleaner list view. Pulls assignment data and displays it in a sortable, filterable sidebar — separating past-due, upcoming, and completed items. The most widely installed Canvas extension on Chrome.

Key Features

  • • Reorganized assignment list with clearer due dates
  • • Daily workload summary and deadline countdown
  • • Course-level filtering and sorting
  • • Separates past-due, upcoming, and completed items
Tasks for Canvas interface
Canvas GPA Calculator

Canvas GPA Calculator

GPA TRACKING ★★★★☆ 4.1 · 6K users · Free
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Adds GPA estimation and grade planning tools to Canvas. Reads your grade data and converts it into GPA estimates, with what-if scenarios for planning how future assignments or courses might affect your overall standing. The only extension on this list focused specifically on GPA calculation.

Key Features

  • • GPA estimation based on current Canvas grades
  • • What-if scenario analysis for grade planning
  • • Course-by-course grade visibility
  • • Only GPA-focused extension on this list
Canvas GPA Calculator interface

Before You Install

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Not official Canvas tools

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