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Feature packed extension for Canvas.
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π₯ BetterCampus β Upgrade Your Canvas Experience
BetterCampus makes Canvas finally feel like it was built for students.
From dark mode and themes to GPA tracking and smarter to-dos β we got you covered.
Features students love:
π Fully Customizable Dark Mode β Schedule it, tweak it, or pick from dozens of user-made themes
π¨ Custom Dashboards β Gradient cards, color palettes, fonts, and layout controls
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Smarter To-Dos β Better assignment lists + preview assignments right from the dashboard
π§ GPA Calculator β Works for both college & high school
π Dashboard Upgrades β Add notes, show grades, clean up the sidebar, and more
Join over 1,500,000 students making Canvas actually work for them.
Built by students, for students.
Disclaimer: BetterCampus is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Instructure or Canvas LMS.
Source Code: https://github.com/UseBetterCanvas/bettercanvas
Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/better-canvas/
Latest reviews
- (2025-09-12) this is so nice
- (2025-09-11) EVERYONE needs this on their canvas!!!
- (2025-09-11) this is the greatest thing ever I tell everyone I know ty sm
- (2025-09-11) Makes canvas ten times better and recommended it to all of my friends and they use it. I can track everything better now and have my favorite anime as my theme!
- (2025-09-11) why are u broiken
- (2025-09-11) This used to be a great free tool. The new version is horrible and now you have to pay for it! Don't bother making an account, it won't let you delete it. Please bring back the old free version.
- (2025-09-10) Love it!
- (2025-09-10) Was really good before this new update. There's just too many bugs and they changed things that really didn't need to be changed and it just isn't the same anymore. And now having to have an account just takes away from what made it different from similar extensions
- (2025-09-10) any service that forces a subscription trial on you without saying explicitly is such a major turn off for me. i'm trying to delete my account before removing the extension, but the delete account button doesn't even work
- (2025-09-09) used to actually have a dark background and now i'm stuck with white even in dark mode. please fix it i've seen others with dark mode still and yet i'm having issues.
- (2025-09-09) hate the update, hate having to make an account, i hate the new better canvas, plz fix. i used to love #sad
- (2025-09-09) bad update, missing features
- (2025-09-09) I can make my own theme, but I cant pick any of the other ones for some reason
- (2025-09-09) I can't see the overdue tasks on the dashboard cards even though I have it enabled in the to-do list. The old version worked perfectly fine for this. May you fix this please? Thank you.
- (2025-09-09) before the update ts used to work now when i refresh it reverts back to the original canvas + the notifications that are in the corner everytime i open a new tab + the paywall.. ts is getting deleted
- (2025-09-09) I have used BetterCanvas for years, and I loved it for how simple it made canvas look and feel. I never had to worry about forgetting when an assignment was due because it was all on the front page. Ever since the latest update, though, that experience has gotten exponentially worse. The features I loved for years are now locked behind a paywall, forcing me to get a free trial for an extension that was free for years. I can no longer access my files because my school blocked the updated extension. The whole UI is glitchy, overly complicated, and strays away from the original goal of making a better canvas for students. I hate to go back to basic canvas after using this for years, but the current state of the extension has made it unusable. I really hope the developers address these issues. If they can't, it would be great if they added a feature that allowed people to revert back to the version they know and love while still letting those who want the new update to have it.
- (2025-09-09) please bring back the old version
- (2025-09-08) The new gpa system is a lot more complicated but other than that its good
- (2025-09-07) Love better campus! The update is buggy so far, but I'm assuming they are working on it. 100% recommend, makes my canvas so much prettier and easier to navigate.
- (2025-09-07) Amazing! Idk why people are hating on it so much after the new update, it's fine and it added some of my favorite features, like the better todo list and the clean sidebar, and of corse I have to mention the immense library of themes, (some of them better then others.) Overall, nothing broke with the new update.
- (2025-09-07) Honestly, such a bad update. I have been using for quite some time and this is the first time that each theme I select keeps reverting to the original canvas look or even when I add a new image for my cards the image suddenly disappears. Everytime I refresh my page my themes revert back to original Canvas view or even with a weird mix of regular canvas and my themes. Every time I select dark mode, nothing happens. I'm severely disappointed especially since it is usually such a good extension
- (2025-09-07) Old version was much better and easier to use. GPA option will not let me change it to calculate graded assignments only. It is also pulling grades from classes I am no longer a part of where the professor did not set an end date for the course. There is no way to remove them. Navigation is fine after spending about 30 minutes trying to figure it out. I did not mind setting up an account, but forcing a free trial where most of the features do not work is pretty low. I hope these things get fixed, but until then I think I will stick with normal Canvas.
- (2025-09-07) i had used bettercanvas for years and this update is literally horrific. im glad i only updated on one of my devices and the others can remain with the previous version. its also ridiculous how everything thats good and free eventually gets a paywall. why do we need to pay for features that were previously free? what changed? id rather have a plain and ugly canvas lol
- (2025-09-07) Not sure why everyone is saying a subscription is required... I was able to customize my entire dashboard and cards just fine. The only problem is that posting custom themes and saving custom themes is currently bugged for me, which is pretty sad as I will lose all my current progress when I want to change my theme again. Hope a bug fix comes out soon.
- (2025-09-06) This update is absolutely horrible and riddled with bugs. My cards are constantly glitching into each other, making them practically unusable. To make matters worse, it keeps telling me to switch to card view even though Iβm already in it. Now Iβm being asked to pay for a subscription to access features that were previously available for free, which feels unfair. The new UI is an eyesore and downright frustrating to use, itβs just not functional. Despite my schoolβs restrictions on Canvas, which I understand, I can not change the color of my cards. On top of that, the system falsely tells me that Iβm not in card view when I clearly am. This update is a major step backwards, and it's affecting my ability to use the platform efficiently.
- (2025-09-05) Dislike the new update. Doesn't let me turn of the new left sidebar and overall glitchy when customizing the theme. I do not like the account creation feature and subscription stuff. I wish I could go back to the old version.
- (2025-09-05) The new update is amazing!! Thanks for all your hard work
- (2025-09-05) i liked the old one better this one it not so good. When every i put on a theme and applyed the changes i go to my do the work and it takes off the theme and my card for my classes are for the theme i had for bettercanvas
- (2025-09-05) not sure why people are saying things in the old update require a subscription. i can literally change my theme and stuff as usual. they just cant read. everything that was in the old one is in the new one. READ PEOPLE. READ!
- (2025-09-05) Would rate 0 stars for the absolutely abhorrent new update but Google doesn't let you
- (2025-09-05) Best canvas add-on, every thing is good, although when i log in, it keeps logging out after 15-19 secconds, please fix this, This is in chrome.
- (2025-09-05) They destroyed this extension with the new update, the older version was much better!
- (2025-09-05) Way to destroy a solid extension, With the new update you are now required to have a subscription which without leaves a non working extension. I hope this fails and that another developer does what y'all should have done.
- (2025-09-05) Even when I added it to my extension, it doesn't want to work. PLUS, when it was working (barely though), it was so hard and confusing to use. I miss the old model.
- (2025-09-04) Keeps me motivated, cute dashboard.
- (2025-09-04) 1 star only because, its not working
- (2025-09-04) I really loved the older version.. It's such a disappointment that they updated so harshly. It isn't even close to the older model! Plus the subscription/account forcing is actually crazy...
- (2025-09-04) the new update doesn't work at all? i had no issues before they changed it
- (2025-09-04) Really loved this extension & would get asked about it all the time, but I really hate this new update. This update had too many changes at once, and it forces you to navigate it. This extension went from a very minimalistic, simple, easy-to-use extension to an overly complicated, maximalist extension that truly makes no sense. It completely changes your canvas and makes it funny looking (not in a good way). I hope they go back to what it used to look like. If I could give it 0 stars, I would.
- (2025-09-04) New features are now locked away by forcing you to register an account and there are now paywalled features too. This is what always happens when any software gets popular :(
- (2025-09-04) Not working for one of my canvases. I attend two schools, so it is very disorienting. Why do I have to pay for features I used to have?
- (2025-09-04) I love this extension, although with the new update, the extension is blocked on most school accounts. They should consider making another one that is is not blocked by most school privacy detectors. Also, with the new version the GPA display is not working correctly. Stuff that hasnt been graded yet shows up as 0/however many points, which makes the gpa significantly low.
- (2025-09-04) I loved this program to keep track of all my classes and gpa. I have not been able to figure out how to be able to display my gpa on my dashboard since this update. I also hate how everything is hidden behind a pay wall. I wished that I knew this before i updated to the latest version.
- (2025-09-04) I have a 4.0 and my dashboard shows all As but in grade section it says 1.4 and im failing almost all classes, i think the issue is that it's counting assignments due in 3 months that i havent completed yet which makes no sense. Anyways soon enough im sure we'll have to pay for anything because that's how it is when you finally find a good app/extension.
- (2025-09-04) paywall, too much notifications, why r u making me sign up for a school plugin
- (2025-09-03) Horrible update! Notice how all the reviews recently went down? This is because of the terrible layout and paywall they just released. Fix this! We were happy with the version before.
- (2025-09-03) It usually works but suddenly the extension isnt working at all. I tried redownloading it and now the extension wont open at all I really liked using it! I hope this is fixed soon
- (2025-09-03) Customization has completely changed, no longer supports my previous images/theme code, very overstimulating.
- (2025-09-03) the whole layout changed and is so complicated. the colors keep changing and it's overwhelming. pls bring back the old menu, this one is extremely buggy.
- (2025-09-03) Doesn't work. When i click on the extension, it doesn't open up a menu.