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How to use Scholarwire inside Claude and ChatGPT

Add Scholarwire as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT and ask what is due, make flashcards from a reading, or check what the syllabus says about late work, answered from your real courses. Setup, what it can do, and how to disconnect.

Key facts · checked September 16, 2026

  • This is a Pro feature, included in the 14-day trial, that lets Claude or ChatGPT read your Scholarwire semester, pull your course materials and build study material, using your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription rather than a second AI tool.
  • Setup is one link pasted into Claude or ChatGPT's own Connectors settings, then a sign-in on a Scholarwire screen where you choose exactly what it can see, about two minutes total.
  • It can read your courses, due dates, announcement excerpts, one note at a time by name, the syllabus and assignment readings Canvas already synced, and, only if you turn on grade sharing, your course-level grade standing. It never returns a Canvas link, a full announcement, a file, or a per-assignment score.
  • It can also build flashcards, quizzes, study guides, summaries and slides from what you ask for, create a study block, mark an assignment done, and add a note. The assistant writes the content, Scholarwire only stores and schedules it, so none of this spends a Scholarwire AI credit.
  • Disconnecting is one click in Settings, Connectors, and it does not touch your semester: the connection stops, nothing already synced is deleted.

You already pay for Claude or ChatGPT. Your semester lives somewhere else, in a separate app you have to open and check. A connector closes that gap: add Scholarwire once, and the assistant you already use can answer from your real courses, read your syllabus and assignment materials, and turn either into flashcards, a quiz or a set of slides, instead of you copying dates and readings back and forth by hand.

What this is

Your semester, inside the assistant you already pay for. Add Scholarwire to Claude or ChatGPT and ask what is due, what you missed, and what to do tonight. It answers from your real courses and your synced course materials, and it can build study material or tick something off. It is not a second tutor: the built-in Tutor inside Scholarwire is unchanged and still runs on Scholarwire's own AI credits. The connector spends your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription instead, so asking it about your semester, or asking it to write you a deck of flashcards, costs you nothing extra here and is not limited by Scholarwire AI credits. The assistant on the other end is the one doing the writing; Scholarwire only stores what it hands back.

What it can do

Three kinds of things to ask for:

Read. What is due, what you missed, your notes, your study plan and your grade standing if you share it, answered from your real courses. Try: "Using Scholarwire, what is due in the next three days and what should I do tonight?"

Study material. Flashcards, quizzes, study guides, summaries and slides. Claude or ChatGPT writes the content and this app stores it, so it costs no AI credits here. Try: "Make me 30 flashcards for CPSC 440 from this week's reading." Once they exist, review them the same way as any other deck, with Scholarwire's own spaced repetition. A slide deck it builds shows up as a note with an Export slides button; a quiz it writes can be taken right there in the chat, or later inside Scholarwire.

Changed your mind. It can delete a deck, a quiz, a note or a whole study set it made. It tells you what would go first and only removes it when you say yes. Try: "Delete the study set you made for chapter 4."

Course materials. The syllabus, an assignment's instructions, and the readings and pages linked from it, read straight from what Canvas already synced. Try: "What does the syllabus say about late work?" It can also look at one assignment's linked reading directly, for example "What do I need to read for Lab 4?"

Who it is for

Pro and the 14-day trial, which starts the moment you connect Canvas. A Free account can still add the connector and sign in; the assistant says that reading your semester here is part of Pro until you upgrade, the same line every time, with no price or countdown attached. Connecting risks nothing: it either works or says so.

Setting it up in Claude

  1. Open claude.ai and go to Customize, then Connectors.
  2. Click Add custom connector.
  3. Paste the connector URL from Settings, Connectors in Scholarwire, then click Add.
  4. Click Connect and sign in on the Scholarwire screen, where you choose what it can see.
  5. Open the + button, turn Connectors on for this chat, and ask about your semester.

A free Claude account can add one custom connector at a time. Claude Pro and above can add more. Set it up on a computer or the web; use it anywhere afterward, including the Claude mobile apps once it has been added on web or desktop.

Setting it up in ChatGPT

  1. Open ChatGPT and go to Settings, then Connectors.
  2. Add a connector and paste the connector URL from Settings, Connectors in Scholarwire.
  3. Sign in on the Scholarwire screen, where you choose what it can see.
  4. Pick Scholarwire from the tools in a chat and ask about your semester.

On some ChatGPT plans, only the read tools (what is due, course details, notes) may be available, with the write tools (booking a study block, marking work done, adding a note) limited to workspace accounts. If that is the case for your plan, ChatGPT will say so when it tries a write rather than failing silently.

What it can and cannot do

It answers questions about your own semester: what is due, what you missed, what a course's grade standing looks like if you turned that on, and what your study plan has scheduled. It can also read the syllabus and the readings linked from an assignment, once those have synced from Canvas. It can build flashcards, a quiz, a study guide, a summary or a slide outline from what you ask for, create a study block, mark an assignment done or not done, and add a note, and every one of those is reversible or additive: nothing it does deletes anything. It cannot see a Canvas link, a full announcement body, a file's raw bytes, an attachment, your email address, your real name, or a score on one specific assignment, and it cannot see any course you have hidden from your planner.

What it can see

  • Your courses, assignment titles, due dates, and whether something is missing or overdue.
  • A short excerpt of an announcement, never the full body.
  • One note at a time, only when your own search names it.
  • Your study plan for the days ahead.
  • The syllabus, an assignment's instructions, and the text of readings and pages linked from it, once those have synced from Canvas. Settings, Canvas shows how many of a course's files are ready.
  • Course-level grade standing (a percentage and points, never a single assignment's score), only if you turn on Share my grade standing for that connection in Settings.

It never sees your Canvas address, a Canvas link, a file's raw bytes, a per-assignment grade, your account's encryption key, or anything belonging to another student. Course material text is stored encrypted the same way your notes are, and decrypted only to answer a request you made. Every call is logged on the server, the same way a sync key read already is. Turning off course material syncing in Settings, Canvas deletes the stored text; turning it back on starts fresh.

How to disconnect

Open Settings, Connectors, find the connection by name, and press Disconnect. That removes it immediately: the next thing the assistant tries gets an error asking it to reconnect, and nothing that already synced to your devices is touched or deleted. Signing out of Claude or ChatGPT alone does not disconnect it; use the Disconnect button in Scholarwire for that.

Starting from Scholarwire

Once a connection is live, Scholarwire offers to start the chat for you. The Study page grows a "Study in Claude" button beside "New study set", and the New study set dialog grows a small panel, "Do this in Claude instead", with a button for flashcards, a quiz, a practice exam, a study guide and slides. Settings, Connectors puts an Open button on each connection, and the Tutor has a quiet "Ask in Claude instead" link under the message box. Each one opens a new chat in a new tab with the question already written, naming the course you have picked and ending with where to save the result, so the deck or the quiz lands back in Scholarwire rather than scrolling away in the transcript. None of it spends a Scholarwire AI credit: the chat runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan.

A link cannot turn a connector on, which is why every one of those prompts starts with "Using my Scholarwire connector". Claude uses whatever connectors your account has enabled. ChatGPT may ask you to pick the connector from the tools menu in the new chat.

Things to try

  • "Using Scholarwire, what is due in the next three days and what should I do tonight?"
  • "What did I miss this week?"
  • "Make me 30 flashcards for CPSC 440 from this week's reading."
  • "Quiz me on chapter 3."
  • "Turn my lecture notes into slides."
  • "What does the syllabus say about late work?"
  • "What do I need to read for Lab 4?"
  • "Book me a 60 minute study block for my hardest course on Thursday evening."
  • "Search my notes for anything about the midterm."
  • "Mark last week's reading response done."

If a menu name has moved

The steps above are written from the current Claude and ChatGPT settings pages, and both change on their own schedule. If a menu name here does not match what you see, the idea is the same: add a custom connector, paste a URL, sign in.

The connector answers questions about a semester that is already synced. If you have not connected Canvas yet, start with how to turn Canvas assignments into a weekly study schedule, then come back here once there is a real semester for Claude or ChatGPT to read. You can start free and connect Canvas in about two minutes.

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