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Product updates, release notes, and engineering work behind the student workspace.
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Lectra Notes is now on the App Store
Lectra is no longer just the iPad companion we were preparing for review. It's a real App Store app now.
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What changed in Canvascope and Lectra.
Canvascope can now take action, and it's built so it can't do your work for you
Canvascope added a multi-step AI agent that reads course context, deadlines, grades, and calendar and creates study aids, while being unable to submit graded work.
Read updateLectra runs a real terminal, git, and Python on the iPad now
Lectra gained a Projects workspace on iPad: a from-scratch POSIX shell, real git over authenticated HTTPS, and an embedded Python runtime, all sharing one sandboxed filesystem.
Read updatePython notebooks are first-class Lectra documents now
Lectra added native .ipynb support: create, edit, and run Python notebooks with persistent state right alongside PDFs, notes, and whiteboards in the same library.
Read updateLectra PDFs can now come back into browser workflows
Canvascope 10.1 adds an Attach from Lectra picker that can bring finished Lectra PDFs back into supported browser upload flows.
Read updateLectra moved into App Store release shape
Lectra narrowed around first-party document import, organization, Apple Pencil annotation, on-device intelligence, backup, and Canvascope handoff before App Store submission.
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All Canvascope product notes.
Lectra Notes is now on the App Store
Release · 1 min read
Canvascope can now take action, and it's built so it can't do your work for you
Engineering · 2 min read
Lectra runs a real terminal, git, and Python on the iPad now
Engineering · 2 min read
Python notebooks are first-class Lectra documents now
Product · 2 min read
Lectra PDFs can now come back into browser workflows
Product · 1 min read
Lectra moved into App Store release shape
Release · 1 min read
Lectra gained on-device intelligence and Shortcuts hooks
Product · 1 min read
On-device AI comes to Canvascope
Engineering · 1 min read
DropBridge v2: the handoff between Lectra and Canvascope is now nearly instant
Engineering · 1 min read
DropBridge got safer production routing
Engineering · 1 min read
Student Profiles: AI that doesn't treat every student the same
Product · 1 min read
Canvascope added real account-event protection
Security · 1 min read
Canvascope v10 connected AI, planning, and DropBridge
Engineering · 1 min read
Syllabus autopilot became the planner prototype
Product · 1 min read
v8 made the side panel a real AI workspace
Engineering · 1 min read
Canvascope 7.0.0: turning Canvas into a real student workspace
Product · 1 min read
When Canvas went down at Berkeley, your materials didn't have to
Notes · 1 min read
Reliability is the feature
Notes · 1 min read
Canvascope doesn't just search anymore. It predicts.
Product · 1 min read
A class glitch, and a quiet save
Notes · 1 min read
Canvas to iPad to annotated to back to work, in seconds
Product · 1 min read
Wait... how are you getting that?
Notes · 1 min read
From seven steps to one
Product · 1 min read
The biggest update yet: from extension to full workflow platform
Product · 1 min read
Canvas was built for institutions. We're building for students.
Notes · 1 min read
Search by intent, not by keyword
Product · 1 min read
We're not building a faster AirDrop
Notes · 1 min read
Tune your own search
Product · 1 min read
Search that understands what you meant
Product · 1 min read
Canvascope 4.0.0: the most underrated feature is removing seven steps
Product · 1 min read
100,000 files indexed
Milestone · 1 min read
A first look at Lectra, our iPad app
Engineering · 1 min read
Canvascope is live on the Chrome Web Store
Milestone · 1 min read