Scope for Canvas, the free Chrome extension for Canvas and Brightspace
The LMS where students actually do the work.
Scope for Canvas is a free, local-first Chrome extension that searches everything in your Canvas and Brightspace courses and answers questions with citations to your own course materials. Lectra Notes, its free iPad app, is where you mark up the reading with Apple Pencil and run the notebook.
Works with Canvas and Brightspace, needs no account, and is free.
Indexed on this device. Press ⌘L to send a file to Lectra Notes.
The course lives in the LMS. The work lives everywhere else.
Files, assignments, and grades sit in the system your school runs. The reading gets annotated in one app, the code gets written in another, and the questions get asked somewhere else entirely. The LMS only ever sees the final upload.
Goodnotes knows the notebook but not the course. Canvas knows the course but not the work. We connect them.
Find. Work. Back.
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Find⌘K in the browser
Every file, page, and assignment across your courses is searched on your device, and answers are cited to the source.
WorkLectra Notes on iPad
Ink the reading, run the notebook, and keep the library offline. Polya is there when you're stuck on a step.
BackInto supported upload flows
Finished files come back to the browser and into supported upload flows. DropBridge carries them.
DropBridge moves files between the browser and the iPad, and back into supported upload flows.
Scope for Canvas, in Chrome
Search every Canvas and Brightspace course, one keystroke away.
- Instant, local searchIndexed on your device, including the text in scanned PDFs.
- Cited course answersAsk about the course and every answer points back to the page it came from. Scope does not take quizzes, write submissions, or interact with Canvas quiz logs.
- Practice exams and a plannerBuilt from real course materials, with due dates that can go into Google Calendar if you want them there.
Lectra Notes on iPad and iPhone
The workspace for documents you think on.
- Apple Pencil first inkVector ink on PDFs, notebooks, and scans, with your library kept offline.
- A real computing environmentPython notebooks, a terminal, and Git that all work offline on the iPad.
- On-device document intelligenceIt runs on supported devices, and anything that goes to the cloud is explicit and optional.
Polya on the web
A tutor that knows the course.
General chatbots know a little about everything and nothing about your class. Polya grounds every hint in your actual course materials and cites the page, slide, or lecture moment it came from. The help is guided, so it gets you to the answer and stops there.
Math 53, guided help
Guided help, and every answer is cited.
The next LMS should not be a better filing cabinet.
It should be the course’s execution environment. Here is the path, plainly labeled.
This is what we’re building. It is not what ships today.
- TodayShipping and free
The student layer on top of the LMS your school already runs: the extension, Lectra Notes, and Polya.
- NextIn design
Instructors run the course in Scope, from publishing to feedback to grading.
- EventuallyThe goal
The course no longer needs the old system underneath it, so replacing that system turns into a migration you can plan.
Local-first is the whole point.
Search and indexing run entirely on your device. AI answers try Chrome’s on-device model first, and when it is unavailable an optional, clearly marked cloud fallback is used.
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Start where you already are.
Scope enters through the LMS your school already runs. Install it, open a course, and press ⌘K.
Works with Canvas and Brightspace, needs no account, and is free.