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Course search, PDF notes, and a tutor for Canvas and Brightspace

The LMS where students actually do the work.

Scope is a free Canvas extension, iPad notes app, and course tutor. Find any reading in a keystroke, mark it up with Apple Pencil, and work through problems with help that starts with a hint.

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  • DueHomework 6: Joint distributionsSTAT 134, Due Friday
  • PDFMidterm 1 review slidesSTAT 134, Lecture 14
  • DueLab 5: Grouping and pivot tablesDATA C100, Due Thursday
  • PDFReading: Reconstruction and its limitsHIST 7B, Week 8 reading
Searching 4 courses

Try it: click the search box and type, or press ⌘K. The courses here are samples.

One week of class, without the tab hunt.

Canvas is where your course lives. Scope is where you do the work: find the reading, mark it up, hand it in, and get help when you're stuck. Your instructor doesn't need to set anything up.

Three free apps, one account.

Each app works on its own. Sign in to all three with the same Google account and your PDFs, backups, and courses come with you.

Chrome extension

Scope for Canvas

Search every Canvas and Brightspace course from one search bar.

  • Search across all your courses
  • Every due date in one agenda
  • Ask about dates, policies, and files
  • Study plans and practice questions
  • Send PDFs to your iPad
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iPad app

Lectra Notes

Read, mark up, and work on course documents with Apple Pencil.

  • Handwriting on PDFs and notebooks
  • Lecture recording tied to your notes
  • Search your handwriting
  • Python and Jupyter notebooks, offline
  • Works without an account
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On the web

Polya

A tutor that teaches from your own course materials.

  • Answers that open the page they came from
  • Four study modes, Guided by default
  • Exam practice from your materials
  • Works inside ChatGPT and Claude
  • Use it on your phone, too
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Automate everything around learning. Don't automate learning itself.

Scope handles the finding, filing, and keeping track, so the hours you spend on a course go to the course. The thinking stays with you.

Help starts with a hint.

Polya's default mode gives you the next step, not the answer. You choose how much help each course gets, and you can change it any time.

You press submit.

Scope can find a file and attach it to an upload form. Handing work in is always your move.

Your work stays yours.

No ads, and no selling your data. Your notes, documents, and course materials aren't used to train AI models.

Your coursework stays on your side.

Scope is free, shows no ads, and doesn't track you across other apps and websites. You can search your courses and use Lectra Notes without an account.

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On your device

  • Your course search index. Searching happens on your computer.
  • Your Lectra Notes documents and handwriting.
  • Summaries and answers about your documents in Lectra Notes, which are written on your iPad and are off until you turn them on.

With your account, if you sign in

  • The PDFs you send to your iPad.
  • A backup copy of your Lectra Notes pages.
  • The courses you add to Polya, your study modes, and your conversations.

Teaching a course?

Canvas keeps the record of a course, and students do the work somewhere else. We're building Scope so the work happens next to the course. If you teach, we'd like to hear what your students need.

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Put every course one search away.

Add Scope to Chrome, open your Canvas or Brightspace site once, and press ⌘K.

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