Ask with citations
Ask a course question and get an answer grounded in the active page plus indexed course material.
The Scope extension · v10.1.0
One shortcut for your entire semester.
Hit ⌘K on any Canvas or Brightspace page. Search everything you've ever been assigned, ask questions with cited answers, and plan your week.
Chrome 116+ · No account required
Everything it does, in one panel.
Instant search
Files, pages, quizzes, and deadlines across every course — ranked as you type, with course aliases like “MCB 102”.
PDF & OCR indexing
Scope parses PDF text locally and can OCR scanned pages and images, so their contents show up in future searches. Nothing is uploaded.
Cited AI answers
Ask across the active LMS page and your indexed courses. Every answer links back with clickable [n] citations to the file it came from.
Smart Planner
Turn upcoming deadlines into editable study blocks, with date-aware search for “today”, “yesterday”, and “this week”.
On-device AI first
Questions run offline with Gemini Nano when available; the cloud fallback is explicit and optional.
Two-way Lectra handoff
Send PDFs to your iPad for Apple Pencil markup, then use Attach from Lectra to pull the finished file back into browser uploads.
Up and running in a minute.
STEP 01
Add to Chrome
Install free from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to your toolbar.
STEP 02
Open your LMS
Visit Canvas or Brightspace and let auto-sync index your courses locally.
STEP 03
Hit ⌘K
Search, ask, and plan from anywhere on the page. That's it.
Shortcuts
Type a shortcut, skip the clicking.
Plan the week
Let AI draft study blocks from upcoming deadlines, then edit before saving.
Practice from sources
Generate practice questions and answers from the course context Scope has indexed.
Sync syllabus dates
Extract schedule items from a syllabus and optionally write them to Google Calendar.
Privacy model
Your coursework stays your business.
Local-first indexing. Your search corpus lives in browser storage, not on our servers.
Optional sign-in. Google sign-in exists only for connected features like calendar sync and Lectra handoff — and it's off by default.
No analytics, no ads. Zero tracking SDKs. Uploads happen only when you explicitly send a PDF to Lectra.
Account protection is wired in. Google cross-account protection events can revoke or block sessions when a connected account is compromised or disabled.
Questions
Everything you might ask.
Is Scope free?
Yes. Scope is a free Chrome extension. Install it from the Chrome Web Store and start searching your courses right away, with no subscription required.
Does Scope work with both Canvas and Brightspace?
Yes. Scope searches across Canvas (Instructure) and Brightspace (D2L) courses, including assignments, readings, files, quizzes, pages, and due dates.
Where is my course data stored?
Scope is local-first. Your course index and search data live in browser-local storage by default. Connected features like Google sign-in, calendar sync, cloud AI fallback, and Lectra handoff only run when you explicitly choose them.
Can Scope search inside PDFs?
Yes. Scope parses PDF text locally and can OCR scanned pages and images so their contents show up in future searches.
What are the cited AI answers?
The Ask side panel retrieves the active LMS page plus your indexed course files, tasks, notes, and PDF pages, then returns answers with clickable [n] citations back to the source material.
How does the Lectra handoff work?
Open a reading or PDF, tap Send to Lectra, and DropBridge v3 delivers it to the Lectra iPad app with realtime wakeups and delivery receipts. After annotating with Apple Pencil, Attach from Lectra can bring the finished PDF back into supported browser upload flows.