CanvasPlus: Power up your learning with color themes, navigation shortcuts, and improved performance.
Canvas+ is a free Chrome Browser extension that improves the experience of students using Canvas. Everything you could need, from color themes, to navigation shortcuts, to improved performance.
The extension has an easy-to-use settings menu, and all of our features are toggle-able.
You have a full suite of appearance settings, including dark and dim mode, custom link colors, and custom sidebar colors and layouts.
Quick Inbox opens a popup on the left side of the page, allowing you to check previews of your emails without reloading the page and possibly losing what you were working on.
If enabled, the Speed Boost feature will preload links while you're idling, resulting in much faster loading speeds of 2x or 4x on struggling connections.
A feature to improve navigation is the search box. The search box can be enabled with Control+K (Command+K on Mac) or with a sidebar button and allows you to search all of your courses for pages and module items.
Rounder Modules does just as the name says, it makes canvas modules rounder.
If the "Smart Scrolling" setting is enabled, you'll see "Scroll to Bottom" and "Back to Top" buttons on pages, discussions, and modules/assignment lists.
This can greatly speed up navigating a course with hundreds of modules.
You can see more features that are being worked on at https://github.com/canvasplus/extension . This project is open source.
The website for Canvas+ is currently https://canvasplus.org/ . This website serves as a hub for FAQ and announcements.
Latest reviews
- (2023-10-16) rice is nice: I like the premise of the extension, but it won't work for me :( it says it doesn't have full access (no access needed) and it can't change the sites data.
- (2023-10-08) Lea Cabaleiro: Is not working. Don't know how to fix. Says "can't read or change site's data" which I'm assuming is not supposed to be the case because it's meant to change the site's data. How can I fix?
- (2023-09-11) Helen Randle: Super useful for canvas, and makes it prettier
- (2023-04-27) Reese Armstrong: This extension is a wonderful addition to my Canvas "experience"!
- (2023-01-26) Tate Gregerson: Only Extension that fully turned all the buttons black. Very cool look. Highly recommend.
- (2022-10-27) Lily Wilkerson: Does what it promises to do. For a few months it would make my desktop computer's fans spin up for seemingly no reason but that's been resolved now.
- (2022-09-28) James Scheff: Completely killed my battery life. I have the brand new Macbook Air M2 chip and It ran just fine until I downloaded this extension. My battery life went from about 11-12 hours to not even 3 hours where all I am doing is typing in a google doc. I know its this extension because I told my computer to kill the Crome tab that had the most energy impact, and every time it was Canvis. This was not an issue for anyone else in my class. For reference a normal tab's energy impact is between 0- 12 and the canvas tab with this extension is 400. I tried removing the tab and it was still drawing this amount of power. I have tried everything it has messed up my google account.
- (2022-09-11) Kevin Wang: With the extension, Canvas would overheat my M1 Mac and severely decrease its battery life. After disabling the extension, the battery life of my mac returned to normal and wasn't nearly as hot. Love the features, but severely limits my mac.
- (2022-09-07) liv: Makes my school work less depressing and ugly 10/10 would recomend
- (2022-05-18) Studio Hawaii: This extension is very good. It has so much customization like you can edit the sidebar etc. I would like it if you added customization for the background though.
- (2022-02-24) Benjamin Walther: I have to use canvas for a lot of school stuff. This extension is really easy to use, and makes canvas just look and feel a lot smoother. Not sure why, but it is also the only one that our school hasn't blocked on the school chromebooks, sooo extra points because I can use it on every device!
- (2022-02-10) Joseph Rench: Best extension for Canvas currently available, it is amazing already and new features keep coming. If you are using canvas at all its a must have.
- (2022-01-26) SylveGaming: An amazing extension, super compact and easy to use, very customizable, and very useful. I love the dark mode and class search options it adds, 10/10, great extension, very useful, and very user friendly, if you are a student or teacher and aren't already using this, you should.
- (2021-12-19) Gabe Tao: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-11-02) Gabriel: Incredibly useful must-have for anyone using Canvas - adds a lot of great features that all make Canvas easier to use, look better, and perform faster
- (2021-10-19) Andrew Zhao: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-10-14) James Thompson: Great product, lots of customization options and it's being updated constantly,, Love it!!
- (2021-10-02) mole: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-09-28) Matthew Green: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-09-24) Sythers: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-09-09) Max Bentley: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-09-01) Santiago Mielke: Very Kool
- (2021-08-29) John Lozier: This extension adds a bunch of really cool features that I use every day, would 100% recommend getting.
- (2021-02-15) axb: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.
- (2021-01-19) Julian: YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- (2021-01-19) Caty Tarrant: Beautiful extension that enhances Canvas exponentially. Even though it's very early in development, this program is amazing for what it currently does. Is absolutely a must have if you're using Canvas frequently.