BetterCampus (prev. BetterCanvas)
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta
Feature packed extension for Canvas.
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Description from store
🔥 BetterCampus – 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 — we got you covered.
Features students love:
🌙 Fully Customizable Dark Mode – Schedule it, tweak it, or pick from dozens of user-made themes
🎨 Custom Dashboards – Gradient cards, color palettes, fonts, and layout controls
✅ Smarter To-Dos – Better assignment lists + preview assignments right from the dashboard
🧠 GPA Calculator – Works for both college & high school
📌 Dashboard Upgrades – 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
- Anonymous
- Love the extension, however the notes page is so buggy because whenever I try to copy and paste my notes into canvas, it always disappears whenever i go to a different page, which is a shame.
- Anonymous
- I'd love to give it 5 stars because it really is useful for organizing your assignments better and visualizing classes, but I've had issues with the dark mode and professors using black text. I'm perpetually having to highlight entire pages so that I can read what they've wrote because I refuse to use light mode. If y'all could work that out, I'd be forever grateful. Also, please please add a time blocking feature to the calendar page so we can plan out our entire day and don't have to use 5 different apps to keep everything in line. Thank you! This extension has been a lifesaver even with its very small issues :)
- Anonymous
- It's really good but it was buggy. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it wouldn't even let me open the extension. :( Buggy but I loved it (still trying to use rn)
- Anonymous
- I love BetterCampus - it keeps me on track and organized. It notifies me if an assignment is due soon, and lets me create my own tasks too! They have cool features to help me keep track of assignments I need to complete, and the customization allows me to fit it to how I like. My only complaint is a couple of bugs. For some mysterious reason, the extension didn't show my tasks. I restarted the laptop. No dice. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled. This worked, but it only shows 2 tasks on the to-do list. I checked the completed list and didn't find my other assignments, although I found it on the calendar. Hope it can be fixed!
- Anonymous
- Yo, there's a lot of fake reviews out there. I hear rumor of them review farms where u just gotta slap some of dat moolah on the table and BOOM, all the 5 star reviews u could wish fer. But listen here real closely ya random internet stranger: This guy, me, yeah me, this guy is talking really, really weird like so you can KNOW i aint one of them fake reviews. Now that I have used all dem fancy words to earn yer trust and whatnot, allow me to say this: This extension is true n blue as the gleamin reviews says it is. Why? cuz this guy has that Eighty-HD stuff them doctors talk about, and i'll tell u wut: this extension really does help a whole lot. It transfroms the interface to be more interactive, more modular, more intuitive. Anwywho. I digress. Don't believe me. Try it out fer urself. Make up ur own mind. I like it. 5/5 stars for sure.
- Anonymous
- Actually keeps me on task and notifies me of when my assignments will be do! Love the notification feature where it literally pops up and says "_____ assignment is due in 1 hour" saves my life when I forget or don't check my planner!
- Anonymous
- Literally the best tool for my school love all the cool and pretty themes love everything!!!💕💕💕💕
- Anonymous
- The new update sucks. Automatically put me on a trial for the paid version and would have charged me if I didn't notice and cancel it; super anti-consumer behavior. Requires an account to do basically anything. Notifications about assignments show up on webpages that aren't canvas.
- Anonymous
- cute! i love changing it to fit with the season!
- Anonymous
- Cant remove "BetterCampus" icon on sidebar and I am debating removing it just out of frustration. Please make it a removable option.
- Anonymous
- This extension is fireeee! I've been using it for about 3 years, it has gotten me through college and now helping me a ton throughout University! I love it!
- Anonymous
- Good Extension, love it
- Anonymous
- Canvas isn't the same without it
- Anonymous
- New update has been a huge disappointment. They are requesting that you make an account to save any of your personalized settings, HUGE red flag for data and privacy reasons. Also, it forces you to have a new "BetterCampus" icon on your sidebar, which I do not personally want there since it messes up the look of my sidebar. I cannot remove it, which is the most frustrating part. Honestly, I am highly considering removing the extension. Really sad because I loved the old version.
- Anonymous
- A must-have for uni students. I use the Assignment Tracker basically every day. Yes, the GPA calculator is not automatically configured to your course weightages (credit hours), but you can change that!! Plus I somehow have my GPA calculator configured to show me a slightly lower GPA than my actual one so I'm always working twice as hard to stay up :)))
- Anonymous
- Please bring back the old version, this new one actually sucks.
- Anonymous
- it removed my group tab on the side also with my history and mastery tabs which are needed but other than that everything is is good
- Anonymous
- really love, glad the grades page works better now, but unfortunately it doesn't recognize my extra credit grades in a class and says i have a b rather than an a and is messing up my gpa calculator. i have an 87 on the grades page but a 103 on my dashboard. i also cannot delete the custom assignment i accidentally made. other than that this is my fav extension.
- Anonymous
- Deleting my 5 star review because they changed the to-do list so now it's just a worse version of Tasks For Canvas. Previously I used both extensions together and it worked perfectly, but now I have to turn off the "better" to-do list because it just tries to do what tasks for canvas does, but worse. Please bring back the old to-do list. Why did this need to replace the old feature? Couldn't they both exist? It was honestly much better before the update. Now it feels like it's trying to do too much and it just makes Canvas cluttered, especially because it advertises to get the premium version multiple times on every page.
- Anonymous
- Empress! my homework is fully orginized now
- Anonymous
- It is well designed as it has many useful features. The only downside is the dark mode which doesn't work well everywhere.
- Anonymous
- My better Canvas hasn't updated to the newer version. How do I go about updating it?
- Anonymous
- This extension is actually so good. As someone who struggles with organizing my homework and staying aware of upcoming exams, this extension is a lifesaver. It helps me customize what I want Canvas to look like so that it works for me. Using it doesn't take that long, it's not complicated, and most of it's useful features are free. This is an actual gamechanger 10/10 would recommend.
- Anonymous
- Fix it now i cant open the extension!!!!!!
- Anonymous
- doesn't open, doesn't work, please fix asap
- Anonymous
- So far, I really like this extension it’s fun customizing everything and it honestly makes doing assignments first thing in the morning more enjoyable. My only issue is the free trial upgrade at first I liked the task bar feature, but it quickly became annoying since I already use another task bar extension that tracks my assignments more accurately this one only shows some assignments and leaves others out. I also couldn’t figure out how to remove the free trial I assumed it would disappear after the days ran out, but instead it keeps coming back with more days added. It’s frustrating because now I see my customized Canvas theme alongside the free trial banner, which makes everything feel cramped and less clean.
- Anonymous
- i can't open the app
- Anonymous
- This new update is horrendous. I actually removed my old 5 stars that I gave it, and that is simply because it is so bad to use now. With the new changes, a lot of my assignments continue to open new tabs, my themes went away, and I can't even full screen my assignments that have comments added by professors. There is no way for me to complete my schoolwork, when I can't even see comments that I am supposed to respond to, but can't because the new update added their own little full screen button that DOES NOT work. I do not like that we need an account now, and it has just been a bad experience overall. I have had this disabled ever since the update, because of how bad this is. Now I just used Tasks for Canvas instead and sacrifice my themes for a normal canvas experience.
- Anonymous
- WOW! The devs have gone masks off greedy :) the new update FORCES YOU TO SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT, and give them your birthday for some reason? Additionally, "free" users are limited to 3 theme changes a single day. Are you kidding me? You're already capable of reading all our data on Canvas, then now you're forcing us to give you your email and our birthdates for... just a theme swap on Canvas?
- Anonymous
- Ever since the update the app just does not open.
- Anonymous
- The update is not great, makes it very hard to navigate and i dont like the overlay when i add my own photos for the class cards. please go back. or make a sepereate one, like the old one for just canvas.
- Anonymous
- I don't mind the update, but it wont't take all my classes and I find that this new update is a bit trickier to manage
- Anonymous
- I think its broken it doesn't work when I open it?
- Anonymous
- its not letting me open it when i click it
- Anonymous
- Works great, best thing to have for canvas.
- Anonymous
- Doesn't work... (using Vivaldi) 🫠 Have heard great things about it but kinda bummed out now 🫠
- Anonymous
- New update is not it, sorry. It would be fine on its own if the developer didn't remove and change the good stuff.
- Anonymous
- A very nice upgrade to the standard Canvas. Really helps because my professors are lazy and don't update the calendar for assignments due, but BetterCanvas assignment to-do list has helped me in great ways.
- Anonymous
- Please bring back the color coordinated tabs 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 thats all I need
- Anonymous
- Amazing extension, makes me dread opening Canvas so much less. Also I love the "dark mode fixer". It's such a smart feature.
- Anonymous
- I like the themeing and it worked fine before. tried taking notes and it won't save or i just can't type, only on here. dissapointed...
- Anonymous
- WHAT THE HECK! Your update is terrible. It blanked out the submit assignment button to where it is just text and if you didn't know it was there would assume that it was done. Change it back. You did not improve anything.
- Anonymous
- Horrible
- Anonymous
- Sept 20, 2025: The new version is utterly disgraceful to the pervious version(s). Making people make an account in order to create personal themes, only to put up a paywall in order to use basic features of what was previously a free extension, is insulting. I'll come back when a free version is allowed, till then, I'm surely disappointed. (This is not an attack of the creators character, but a reflection of my disapproval) Oct 28, 2024: love this so much!! I have trouble with visual aspects on websites, and this extension is wonderful for getting work done faster and easier. You're making a better difference for all of us, thank you so much!
- Anonymous
- Disappointing update
- Anonymous
- Doesn't work
- Anonymous
- Update ruined it, used to feel like a great integration and a 10/10 recommendation to everyone, now it feels like I am entering a sponsored website. Please tone it down and bring it back to what it used to be.
- Anonymous
- Old version was a 5/5 New version barely works Please go back to the old version
- Anonymous
- I removed the old extension and updated to the new one and now I have to pay to keep the theme ive used for a year??? This is such a cash grab and you genuinely don't care about students, give me back the old version.
- Anonymous
- is it just me or is the to do list not appearing anymore?