# Scholarwire

> Connect Canvas once and get your whole semester: a calendar, a study planner, notes, flashcards and quizzes, kept on your device and encrypted in your account.

Free is 3 AI credits a month once signed in. Connecting Canvas starts a 14 day Pro trial with no card required, releasing 3 of 30 credits a day; an account that never connects Canvas stays on Free. Pro is $4.99 a month or $44 a year with 250 AI credits.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://scholarwire.app): what Scholarwire does and who it is for.
- [How it works](https://scholarwire.app/how-it-works): connecting Canvas and what happens after.
- [For Canvas](https://scholarwire.app/for-canvas): what syncs from Canvas, and how often.
- [Pricing](https://scholarwire.app/pricing): the Free and Pro plans, and what changes between them.
- [Install](https://scholarwire.app/install): how the Canvas extension is installed. The Chrome Web Store listing is not published yet.
- [Guides](https://scholarwire.app/guides): how-to guides for Canvas, calendars and studying.
- [Support](https://scholarwire.app/support): the answers students ask for most, and how to reach a person.
- [Privacy](https://scholarwire.app/privacy): what leaves the device, when, and what the service can see.
- [Terms](https://scholarwire.app/terms): the terms of use, in plain language.
- [Sign in and start free](https://scholarwire.app/account/sign-in): where an account is created. No card.

## Guides

Full text of every guide below, as markdown: https://scholarwire.app/llms-full.txt

- [How to bring a Google Doc into your notes](https://scholarwire.app/guides/bring-a-google-doc-into-your-notes) (updated 2026-09-22): Pull a Google Doc, Slides deck, Sheet, PDF, Word or PowerPoint file from Google Drive into a note, with headings intact and a link back to the original.
  - Add from Google Drive lives in the note editor and on the notes screen, and brings a Google Doc, Slides deck, Sheet, PDF, Word file or PowerPoint file into a note with its headings and lists kept.
  - The file is downloaded straight from Google to your own browser. It never passes through our servers, and the text is stored the same way every other note is.
  - The permission you give covers only the files you chose in Google Drive. The rest of your Drive stays invisible, and nothing is written back to Drive.
  - Every note made this way starts with a line reading "From Google Drive" and the file's name, linked to the original, so you can get back to the source.
  - Once the text is in a note it behaves like anything you typed: flashcards, a quiz, a study guide or a summary can all be made from it.
- [How to turn Canvas assignments into a weekly study schedule](https://scholarwire.app/guides/canvas-assignments-weekly-study-schedule) (updated 2026-09-22): Canvas says when work is due, never when to do it. List the week, estimate each item, schedule back from each due date, and plan sixty percent of your hours.
  - Scheduling backwards from the due date, rather than forwards from today, is what stops everything landing on the night before.
  - Canvas shows deadlines, not work. A due date is the last moment something can be handed in, so a calendar made only of due dates always looks emptier than the week really is.
  - A study block needs a verb. "PSYC 101" is not a plan; "write the PSYC 101 outline" is, and it is the difference between sitting down and stalling.
  - Anything longer than about ninety minutes is better split into two blocks on different days, because the gap between blocks is part of what makes the material stick.
  - Plan roughly sixty percent of the hours you think you have. The rest absorbs the class that runs long, the extra shift and the week you get sick, and a plan that cannot absorb them gets abandoned.
- [Canvas calendar not showing assignments? What to check](https://scholarwire.app/guides/canvas-calendar-not-showing-assignments) (updated 2026-09-22): An assignment is in the course but not on your Canvas calendar. Six causes in the order worth checking, from ones you can fix to ones only an instructor can.
  - An assignment with no due date never appears on the Canvas calendar, in the Agenda view or in To Do. It is the most common cause, and nothing a student changes will fix it.
  - The colored checkboxes beside the course list on the Calendar page hide and show courses. One unchecked course looks exactly like a course with no work in it.
  - An unpublished assignment is invisible to students even though the instructor sees it on their own calendar, which is how "it is there" and "it is not there" can both be true.
  - Canvas selects only the first ten course and group calendars by default, so a student with more than ten can have some switched off without being told.
  - A calendar feed in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook refreshes on that app's own schedule, often hours apart, and it never carries Canvas To Do items.
- [How to see Canvas due dates on your phone](https://scholarwire.app/guides/canvas-due-dates-on-your-phone) (updated 2026-09-22): Subscribe your phone's calendar to the Canvas feed for due dates, keep the Canvas Student app for grades and announcements, and set Canvas notifications once.
  - A Canvas calendar feed is a normal .ics subscription, so the calendar app already on your phone can read it with no extra app installed.
  - On iPhone the subscription is added in the Calendar app under Add Subscription Calendar. On Android it is added once in Google Calendar on the web, because the phone app cannot subscribe.
  - The feed link is a credential. Anyone holding it can read your course schedule, so it should never be posted publicly or pasted into a shared document.
  - Chrome on a phone does not run extensions, so anything that reads Canvas through a Chrome extension is set up once on a computer and then read on the phone.
  - A phone's built-in calendar can put deadlines on a lock screen, a widget and a watch face, which is the real advantage over an app you have to remember to open.
- [How to use Scholarwire inside Claude and ChatGPT](https://scholarwire.app/guides/use-scholarwire-in-claude-and-chatgpt) (updated 2026-09-22): Add Scholarwire as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT, then ask what is due, make flashcards from a reading or check the syllabus. Setup, limits, disconnecting.
  - 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.
- [How to see all your Canvas assignments in one calendar](https://scholarwire.app/guides/all-canvas-assignments-one-calendar) (updated 2026-09-22): The Canvas Calendar page merges every course. Switch it to the Agenda view for one dated list of everything due, and know the three things it leaves out.
  - The Canvas Calendar page already combines every course. The colored checkboxes beside the course list only hide or show what is merged; nothing needs turning on.
  - The Agenda view, one of the view buttons at the top of the Calendar page, turns the grid into a date-ordered list of upcoming work across every course.
  - The Dashboard's To Do list only shows a short list a few days out. It is not the full picture and should not be your only source of what is due.
  - An assignment with no due date does not appear on the Calendar or in To Do, however you view it. The course Syllabus page and Modules list it.
  - Canvas selects the first ten course and group calendars by default, so a student in more than ten starts with some of them unticked.
- [How to add Canvas to Google Calendar](https://scholarwire.app/guides/canvas-to-google-calendar) (updated 2026-09-22): Copy the Calendar Feed link from Canvas, add it in Google Calendar under Other calendars, From URL, and due dates stay in sync. What updates and what does not.
  - Canvas gives every student a private Calendar Feed link on the Calendar page, and Google Calendar subscribes to it under Other calendars, From URL.
  - Google only lets you subscribe to a calendar from a computer web browser. Once it is added there, it appears in the Google Calendar phone app by itself.
  - The feed carries assignments and calendar events from the past 30 days and up to 366 days ahead. It does not carry Canvas To Do items, announcements or grades.
  - Google Calendar checks a subscribed calendar on its own schedule and does not publish how often, so a change in Canvas can take hours to arrive.
  - Canvas says to add the feed again after you enroll in a new course, so each new term takes one more copy and paste.
- [How to plan your semester in the first week](https://scholarwire.app/guides/planning-first-week-of-semester) (updated 2026-09-22): In the first week, read every syllabus, put every graded date from every course on one list, and mark your heaviest weeks before the first assignment is due.
  - Most syllabi list every exam and major project date on day one. Reading all of them in the first week is the most useful hour of the term.
  - Building one master list across all courses, instead of five separate ones, is what reveals overlapping deadlines before they become a crisis.
  - Syllabus week is a real risk. Skipping class because nothing is graded yet means missing the week where instructors explain how the course runs.
  - A rough weekly time budget, even a bad first guess, beats no budget. You can correct it in week three once you know your real pace.
  - Marking your two or three heaviest weeks in week one turns them from a surprise into something you can prepare for a month ahead.
- [Spaced repetition and FSRS explained for students](https://scholarwire.app/guides/spaced-repetition-fsrs-explained) (updated 2026-09-22): Spaced repetition shows a card again just before you would forget it. How FSRS picks that moment, why it aims for 90 percent recall, and how to rate honestly.
  - Spaced repetition works because forgetting is predictable. Reviewing a fact just before you would have forgotten it makes the next gap before forgetting longer.
  - FSRS stands for Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler. Anki offers it as an alternative to its older SM-2 scheduler, and it tracks each card's difficulty and memory stability instead of one ease number.
  - FSRS schedules each card for the point where you have about a 90 percent chance of still remembering it. Ninety percent is Anki's default target, a balance of recall against review time.
  - Rating a card "Again" when you forget it is the input the algorithm needs. A generous rating, "Good" on something you barely knew, does more damage to your schedule than an honest "Again".
  - Spaced practice is one of the two study techniques a major 2013 review rated most useful. Cramming the night before builds recognition for the test, not memory that lasts.
- [How to study for an exam in five days](https://scholarwire.app/guides/study-for-exam-in-five-days) (updated 2026-09-22): A day-by-day plan for the five days before an exam: map the scope, test yourself with notes closed, drill the weak pile, sit a timed practice run, then sleep.
  - Rereading notes and highlighting feel productive, but a major 2013 review of study techniques rated both low in usefulness; they create familiarity, not the ability to recall something under test conditions.
  - Practice testing, answering from memory with the notes closed, is one of the two techniques the same review rated most useful, alongside spacing study out over time.
  - Spreading five days of review across five separate blocks beats one long one, even when the total hours are identical, because the gaps between blocks are part of the method.
  - A practice run under exam conditions (timed, no notes, similar format) surfaces gaps that untimed review never reveals.
  - Sleep the two nights before an exam matters more than an extra two hours of review; cutting it to cram usually costs more than it gains.

## Blog

- [How to add your Canvas calendar to Outlook on any device](https://scholarwire.app/blog/canvas-calendar-to-outlook) (updated 2026-09-22): Copy the Calendar Feed link in Canvas and subscribe in Outlook on the web under Add calendar. Which Outlook apps show it, and how long a change takes to arrive.
  - How do I remove the Canvas calendar from Outlook?
  - Can I change a Canvas assignment from Outlook?
  - Why does an assignment due at 11:59 pm show as an all day event?
  - Is my Canvas calendar feed link private?
- [Can ChatGPT or Claude tell you what is due in Canvas?](https://scholarwire.app/blog/chatgpt-claude-whats-due-in-canvas) (updated 2026-09-22): Not by default. They need a way into your courses: a school setup, a Canvas access token or a connector. What each route sees, who can use it and what it risks.
  - Does the Scholarwire connector spend AI credits?
  - Can the connector submit an assignment for me?
  - Does it work with a free Claude account?
  - Is it safe to give an AI tool my Canvas access token?
- [How to turn lecture slides into flashcards worth reviewing](https://scholarwire.app/blog/lecture-slides-into-flashcards) (updated 2026-09-22): Slides are cues, not content. Understand the lecture first, write one fact per card, skip titles and lists, and let a scheduler decide when each card returns.
  - How many cards should one lecture make?
  - Should I make cards before or after the lecture?
  - Can I bring an Anki or Quizlet deck into Scholarwire?
  - Do image-heavy slides work?
- [How many hours should you study per credit hour each week?](https://scholarwire.app/blog/study-hours-per-credit-hour) (updated 2026-09-22): The rule is two hours outside class per credit hour, from the federal credit hour definition. What students really log, when it bends, and how to fit it in.
  - Does the two hour rule include time in class?
  - Is an online course less work per credit?
  - Do STEM courses need three hours per credit?
  - How does a quarter credit compare with a semester credit?

## Support answers

The answers published on https://scholarwire.app/support, grouped as they are there.

### Getting started

- How does Scholarwire get my courses?
  Scholarwire for Canvas reads Canvas in this browser with the session you are already signed in to, then passes the result to the app. No password to hand over, no server in between.
  Open Connect Canvas in the sidebar to set it up. It takes about a minute.
- Can I see the welcome tour again?
  Add ?tour=1 to any page address, for example /today?tour=1. The three welcome cards open again.
- Can I install Scholarwire like an app?
  Yes. Settings, App and data has an Install button, and the browser's address bar usually offers one too. It opens in a separate window and keeps working offline.

### Canvas and the extension

- How often does it sync?
  In the background while the app is open, and whenever the last sync is more than half an hour old. Refresh any time from the button beside the status in the top bar.
- A course or an assignment is missing.
  Scholarwire sees only what Canvas shows you. An unpublished course or assignment is not there to read.
  Past courses are hidden by default. Show them from Courses, and add anything Canvas never had with New on the calendar.
- Does it work offline?
  Yes, for what is already in this browser: calendar, planner, notes, decks and quizzes. Canvas sync and AI answers need a connection, and the app says so when it drops.

### Calendar and feeds

- Can I see my deadlines on my phone?
  Two ways. Export an .ics file from the calendar and open it on your phone, or turn on calendar sync in Settings for a private link your phone's calendar can subscribe to.
- I added the calendar feed twice. How do I remove one?
  Scholarwire publishes one link. Adding it twice makes two subscriptions in the calendar app, so the extra one comes off there.
  Google Calendar, on the web: find the feed under Other calendars, hover it, open the three dot menu or Settings, then choose Unsubscribe or Remove calendar. The Google Calendar phone apps cannot remove a subscription, so this one has to be done on the web.
  Apple Calendar, on a Mac: right-click the subscribed calendar in the sidebar and choose Unsubscribe. On an iPhone: Settings, Apps, Calendar, Accounts, Subscribed Calendars, choose it, then Delete Account.
  Outlook, on outlook.com: open Calendar, right-click the calendar under Other calendars and choose Remove. The new Outlook for Windows works the same way.
  Removing a subscription never touches Scholarwire. The link keeps working, and you can add it again from Settings, Calendar.
- Can I get a new feed link?
  Yes. Settings, Calendar, open Stop sharing this link, then press Reset link. The new link is in the box above it, ready to copy.
  Add the new link everywhere you had the old one, and remove the old subscription in each calendar app. The old link stops working as soon as the reset finishes. If the app says it may still work for a while, it clears itself.
  Turn off calendar sync sits on the same row. That deletes the feed from the server, so the link stops working everywhere it was added.
- Why does my calendar app show only two courses?
  Free puts 2 courses on the feed. Pro and the 14-day trial put all of them.
  Choose which ones under Settings, Calendar, Courses on your calendar. The feed republishes as soon as you change the choice, and your calendar app shows it on its next refresh, which can take hours.

### Planner and study hours

- How does the study plan decide what to schedule?
  From what is due, the estimate on each one, and the hours you marked free. It lays out study blocks before the deadlines.
  Change an estimate from the pill on a planner row, drag a block to move it, and press Rebuild for a fresh plan. Blocks you moved stay put.
- Where do I set the hours I am free?
  Settings, Study plan. One row per weekday, each with a start and an end time, read in your local time. The planner only puts study blocks inside those windows.
  The same page sets Block length, Break between blocks, Daily maximum, and Start this many days early.

### Notes, decks and quizzes

- Where do flashcards and quizzes come from?
  From your notes and files. Open a note and use the study tools, or ask the Tutor to make a deck. Review is spaced repetition, so cards you find hard come back sooner.
- Where are citations and the writing checks?
  In your notes. Press Tools beside a note's title for the reference formatter and for the plagiarism and AI detection checks, with that note's text already in.
  Both checks run on this device. Neither costs a credit or sends your draft anywhere. The plagiarism check finds runs of six or more words your draft shares with a source you paste or with your own notes. There is no database of other papers, so it is not a Turnitin score.
  The AI detection check reads counted signals, like sentence variety and stock phrases, and says how the draft reads. Detectors guess: a human draft can score high. Use it to see how your writing reads, not as a verdict.
- Can I bring a Google Doc into a note?
  Yes. Open a note and press Google Drive, or use New note from Drive on the notes screen. Choose a file and its text lands in the note, with a link back to Drive.
  Google Docs, Slides and Sheets work, and so do PDFs, Word files and PowerPoint files already in Drive. A Sheet arrives as its first sheet. A PDF is kept whole and opens inside the note.
  The file downloads straight from Google to this device and never passes through our servers. The permission covers the files you chose and nothing else in Drive, and nothing is written back.
- Is there a faster way to reach what a row can do?
  Right-click a note, a study set or a course for its actions. The same list the row's menu button opens. Shift and right-click keeps the browser's own menu.
- Where does a deleted note go?
  To Recently deleted, where it stays for 30 days. Deleting shows an Undo for a few seconds, and after that the note is still there: Settings, Your data, Recently deleted.
  The same for study sets, flashcards and quizzes. A deck keeps its cards and its review schedule, so restoring it puts back exactly what you had. Delete now removes something before the 30 days are up, and that one cannot be undone.
- How do I add a table, an equation or a diagram?
  Type / at the start of a line for the menu, or use the toolbar. A table opens with a bar for rows and columns. One dollar sign makes a short equation, two make a block. A diagram opens with its source below it, drawn live.
  Press / to see the rest.

### The Tutor and credits

- What is a credit?
  One credit is one AI action: a summary, a deck, a quiz, an answer from the Tutor. Bigger actions cost a few. The cost is on the button before you press it.
  Credits refresh on the same day each month. Settings, AI help shows how many are left.
- Can I turn AI off completely?
  Yes. One switch in Settings, AI help hides every AI feature in the app. Nothing is sent anywhere while it is off.
- Will the Tutor write my essay?
  No. It explains, works a parallel example, checks your reasoning, outlines and quizzes you. It will not write what you hand in.

### Claude and ChatGPT

- Can I use Scholarwire inside Claude or ChatGPT?
  Yes, on Pro and the 14-day trial. Add it as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT's Connectors settings, sign in once, then ask what is due, what you missed, or what to do tonight, answered from your real courses. Settings, Connectors has the steps and a link to the full guide.
  It can read courses, due dates, announcement excerpts, your synced syllabus and assignment readings, and one note at a time by name, plus course-level grade standing if you turn that on. It never returns a Canvas link, a file, or a per-assignment score.
  It can also build a deck, quiz you on a chapter, write a study guide, or turn notes into slides, in the chat, on your Claude or ChatGPT subscription rather than a Scholarwire credit. Disconnect any time from Settings, Connectors.
- Why can Claude or ChatGPT not read a file yet?
  Reading a Canvas file needs the browser extension open on a computer. Scholarwire notes it and reads it on the next pass, often within a minute if that computer is open now.
  Ask again then, or open Settings, Canvas and press Read now.

### Account, plan and billing

- Why does the app need an account?
  Signing in comes first, with Google or an email link. It is what syncs your Canvas data, notes and study material, encrypted, to every device you sign in on, and what gives AI features their monthly credits.
  The server holds your identity, plan, credits and calendar feed, never the coursework itself.
- What does Pro change?
  250 AI credits a month instead of 3, background sync every 30 minutes, every course on your calendar feed instead of 2, and encrypted sync across every device, course files included.
  The calendar, the planner, notes, decks and quizzes work the same on both.
- How do I cancel?
  Settings, Account, Manage billing. Pro runs to the end of the period you paid for, then the account drops to Free. Semester, notes and decks are untouched either way.
- Does my data follow me to another computer?
  Only Canvas needs the extension, and only on one computer. Notes, decks, quizzes and the study plan follow you the moment you sign in on Pro or the trial. No code to enter, no separate step.
  A phone or an iPad cannot run the extension. Sign in there too, and the semester appears once Canvas is connected on a computer with Chrome.
- How does syncing across devices work?
  It follows your account. Sign in with Google or an email link on Pro or the 14-day trial, and every device you sign in on after that stays in sync. No code, no QR, no phrase to keep.
  Notes and study material are encrypted before they leave the device, with a key stored with your account so any device you sign in on can open them. That means we hold the key. We do not read student data; access to keys is limited to the running service and every key read is logged. Canvas flows one way, from the computer running the extension out to your other devices.
  Settings, Devices lists your devices, renames or unlinks one, and has a switch to pause sync on this device only.

### Privacy and data

- Where is my data kept?
  On this device, in this browser profile's storage and in the Scholarwire extension, and encrypted in your account so your other devices can open it. You sign in with Google or an email link before using Scholarwire, which means we hold the key. We do not read student data; access to keys is limited to the running service and every key read is logged.
  Anyone who can use this computer account can read the local copy, so use a personal profile on a shared machine.
- What leaves my device?
  The text or file you give an AI feature goes to the model that answers it. Calendar sync, if you turn it on, publishes each item's title, date, time, course, location, description and Canvas link to a private link. Signing in, which comes before anything else, sends your email address so an account can exist, and starts sync: notes, decks, quizzes and study plan, encrypted before they leave, with the key stored with your account.
  Nothing else is sent on its own. The rest waits for you to press something.
- How do I delete everything?
  Settings, Data, Delete all local data. It clears both copies, the app's storage and the extension's. Uninstalling the extension and clearing site data does the same by hand.
  Export first to keep a copy. The export holds everything, grades included.

### Something is wrong

- The page says it cannot find the extension.
  Check it is installed and turned on in your browser's extensions page, then press I installed it on the Connect page.
  Scholarwire needs a Chrome-based browser: Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc. Safari and Firefox cannot run the extension.
- A sync failed. What now?
  Press Try again in the top bar. Most failures are Canvas signing you out, or the network dropping for a moment.
  If it keeps failing, open Settings, Canvas. It lists what the last sync could not read and has a Reconnect button.
- Why does it say sync is paused?
  Either the trial ended and the account is on Free, which pauses sync for the account, or Sync is off for this device in Settings, Devices, which pauses it here only. Nothing is deleted. Each device keeps what it has, and sync picks up again when it resumes.

## Notes for AI assistants

- Canvas here means Canvas LMS by Instructure, the learning management system. Not Canva, and not the HTML canvas element.
- Works with Canvas by Instructure: hosted instances, instructure.com subdomains and self-hosted installs, for any student who can sign in to their school's Canvas in the browser.
- Does not work with Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace or Google Classroom.
- The Canvas extension runs in Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc on a computer, not on a phone. Deadlines reach a phone through the private calendar feed or an .ics export (the support answer on phones).
- Scholarwire is local-first: a student's Canvas data, notes, decks and study history live on their own device, and an encrypted copy syncs to their account so their other devices can open the same semester. The service holds the key to that copy and nobody there reads it. What it stores is encrypted, so there is no readable body of student work to cite from.
- Prices, credit amounts and plan details can change. Verify against /pricing before quoting a number.
- Each guide and post line above carries the date its facts were last checked.
- Sitemap: https://scholarwire.app/sitemap.xml