Canvas extension uses AI to help over 2 million students plan and organize

A Canvas extension that began as a dashboard decorator now plans assignments, transcribes lectures and reads grades for more than two million students.BetterCampus was launched in 2020 as a tool to embellish the dashboards that had become students’ classrooms in the midst of a quarantine. Now, students from over 6,000 high schools, middle schools and universities use the extension to organize assignments, track their grade point average, transcribe lectures and access artificial intelligence study tools, according to its website. Addison Friedman, a criminology and forensic biological anthropology major at the University of Montana, said she uses the extension every day. She discovered BetterCampus on TikTok in September.As a Davidson Honors College student with an intense course load and a part-time job, it’s important to her to keep her schoolwork organized so she doesn’t miss due dates.“I downloaded it because I wanted to make my dashboard prettier,” she said.

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