Studying as a treasure hunt
Turn every task into a mini-game: carry the compass, dig up treasure chests hidden in your coursework, earn dubloons and streaks. Momentum, not willpower — Clipper celebrates every win.
Canvas, finally with a game mode
Course Compass — know what to study next on Canvas.
Course Compass reads your Canvas assignments, ranks them by what matters most right now, and rewards you with dubloons every time you study. Your parrot Clipper keeps you company.
Free to install · No Canvas password needed · Works on Chromebooks
+25 dubloons
study streak: 6 days
Made for students who live in Canvas
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Your notes stay on your device by default
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Not affiliated with Instructure or Canvas
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No account required to start
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Chrome & Edge
The Canvas to-do list tells you what's due.
It never tells you what matters.
Twelve tabs, no order
A 5-point discussion post sits right next to the midterm. Everything looks equally urgent, so nothing does.
Grades hide the stakes
The assignment that could move your grade two letters looks identical to busywork. You can't see leverage.
Starting is the hard part
You know you should study. Opening the doc, finding your notes, and beginning is where it falls apart.
What it does
One panel inside Canvas. Everything pointed in the right direction.
Meet Clipper
Your parrot study buddy. Ask him a study question and he'll dig through your notes for the answer, cheer your streaks, hand out crackers when you study, and keep you company when deadlines stack up. Tune him from quiet to chatty.
Smart prioritization
Every assignment is scored by due date, point weight, and your current grade in the course — so the top of the list is always the single most worthwhile thing to do next.
Notes that find you
Import notes, PDFs, and slides once. The right chapter surfaces automatically on the Canvas page you're looking at.
Quiz me & pre-grade
Generate quick self-tests from your own material, and get a red/yellow/green read on a draft before you submit.
OCR for handwriting
Snap or import handwritten notes and scanned pages — Course Compass reads them into searchable, studiable text.
Focus timer with payoff
An assignment-aware study timer that detects what you're working on and pays out dubloons when you finish a real session.
Synced across devices
Library at home, Chromebook in class. Your settings and streak follow you; your notes stay private to you.
The game economy
Studying earns real rewards.
Dubloons
Earn one every time you complete a task, study your notes, or keep a daily streak alive.
Treasure Chests
Hidden in your coursework — find them while studying to unlock bonus rewards and jackpots.
Cosmetics Shop
Spend dubloons on purse skins and Clipper accessories — eyepatches, captain's hats, crowns, and more. Clipper's wardrobe awaits.
Loot Boxes
Fifty dubloons unlocks a case-opening animation — items scroll past and decelerate until your prize lands. Every reveal is an unowned cosmetic.
Three steps
Up and running before your next class.
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Add it to Chrome
Install free from the Chrome Web Store. No account wall, no credit card to start.
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Point it at your Canvas
A welcome screen auto-detects your Canvas URL and uses your existing Canvas login to read your assignments — no token to generate, no password to hand over. (An optional read-only access token is available in Settings for the rare school setup that needs it.)
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Open the compass
A panel appears inside Canvas with your ranked list. Start at the top, earn dubloons, watch your streak grow.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when the AI earns it.
Start free — no account, no credit card, no expiry. Everything a student needs to know what to study next is included for free forever. Paid plans unlock the managed AI study features with no API keys to wrangle.
Free forever — no account needed
Free
$0forever
Everything that doesn't cost us tokens.
- Smart assignment prioritization
- Treasure-hunt study games & dubloons
- Assignment-aware focus timer
- Local notes & file library
- A one-time taste of the AI features
Most popular
Plus
$4.99/ month
The AI study layer, fully managed.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited notes indexing & quizzes
- Pre-grade your drafts
- Handwriting OCR
- Cloud sync of your library
Semester & annual plans available at checkout.
Pro
$9.99/ month
For students who'd rather listen than read.
- Everything in Plus
- 🎧 7 natural AI voices for “Read to me”
- ~5.5 hours of new narration every month
- Textbook reader & chapters on your phone
- 2,000 AI credits / month — double Plus
Compare every plan
Core study tools are free forever. Paid plans add the managed AI study layer, metered in credits.
| Features & services | Free$0 | Plus$4.99/mo | Pro$9.99/mo |
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| Core study tools — always free, runs locally, no AI credits | |||
| Smart assignment prioritization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Treasure-hunt study games & dubloons | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaks & shop (freezes, extensions) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Assignment-aware focus timer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Local notes & file library | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Instant “relevant to this page” matching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI study features — managed for you, metered in credits | |||
| AI notes indexing | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quiz me & term-match | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| Study Q&A generation | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre-grade your drafts | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| Page & assignment summaries | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| Syllabus schedule extraction | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| Handwriting OCR | Taste | ✓ | ✓ |
| “Read to me” narration | Browser voice | Browser voice | 7 natural voices |
| Credits, sync & services | |||
| AI credits | 75 + 50 / mo | 1,000 / mo | 2,000 / mo |
| First-index welcome bonus | — | +400 | +400 |
| Cloud sync across devices | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Server-side OCR & PDF compute | — | Included | Included |
| Monthly listening allowance | — | — | ~5.5 hrs new audio |
| Semantic search & advanced analytics | — | — | Coming |
| Earliest access to new features | — | — | ✓ |
| Top-up packs ($3.49 / 500 credits) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Billing options | |||
| Monthly | Free | $4.99 | $9.99 |
| Semester (~4 mo) | — | $16.99 | $33.99 |
| Annual | — | $39.99 | $79.99 |
Local games, on-page retrieval, and cached reviews never use credits. Paid-tier anti-abuse caps: indexing ≤ 100 source-parts/day · handwriting OCR ≤ 50 pages/day.
Student pricing. Billing handled by our merchant of record — cancel anytime, no questions.
The free plan is not a trial. Smart prioritization, Clipper, and the dubloon economy are free forever.
Your next study session has a clear first step.
Add Course Compass to Chrome and open Canvas. The compass takes it from there.
Questions
The short answers.
Do you see my Canvas password?
No. Course Compass reads your assignments using your existing, already-logged-in Canvas session — your password never enters the picture. If a school's Canvas setup ever needs it, you can optionally add a read-only Canvas access token in Settings instead; either way, nothing is sent to our servers.
Is this affiliated with Canvas or Instructure?
No. Charted Edu Tech is an independent company. "Canvas" is the learning platform our tool helps you navigate; Course Compass is not endorsed by or affiliated with Instructure, Inc.
Where do my notes and files live?
Your notes, PDFs, and the search index stay on your device by default. On paid plans you can opt in to cloud backup so your library follows you between computers — email [email protected] anytime for a full export of what's backed up, or to have it deleted.
Can my professor or school see that I'm using Course Compass?
No. Course Compass is a read-only extension that operates on your device. It reads assignment data from Canvas pages you already have open — it doesn't send requests to Canvas on your behalf, doesn't create any records visible to Canvas admins, and leaves no footprint on your school's servers. Your professor and school have no way to see it's installed.
What do I get on the free plan?
Smart prioritization, all the treasure-hunt study games, dubloons and streaks, the focus timer, and your local notes library — free forever. You also get a small one-time taste of the AI features so you can feel them before deciding to upgrade.
Will it slow down my Chromebook?
It's built for school hardware. The heavy AI work (OCR, PDF reading) runs on our servers on paid plans, and the on-page ranking is instant and local.
Can I cancel?
Anytime, no questions asked — email [email protected] and we'll cancel it right away. Billing is handled by our merchant of record (Paddle); a self-serve billing portal is on the way. Your data stays exportable whether you stay free or paid.
Does it work with all Canvas schools?
Course Compass works with any school using the Canvas LMS by Instructure — which is the majority of US higher-ed and many K-12 districts. The welcome screen auto-detects your Canvas URL from open tabs, so setup is usually just one click. It does not work with Blackboard, Moodle, or other LMS platforms.
Who is Clipper?
Clipper is your study parrot — a mascot who lives in the extension and keeps you company while you work. Clipper hands out crackers when you read your notes, cheers streaks, and can be tuned from quiet to chatty in settings. The name is a nod to Clippy, the original misunderstood assistant. We think we can do better.
What browsers does it work with?
Course Compass is a Chrome extension, so it works in any Chromium-based browser: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Brave. Firefox and Safari are not supported — Chrome extensions use a different format. Most school Chromebooks run Chrome, so that covers the majority of students.
How long does setup take?
Under two minutes. Install the extension, open the welcome screen — it scans your open tabs to find your Canvas URL, so you usually don't have to type anything. No account, no credit card, no API key. The priority list is live as soon as you open Canvas.
We stopped guessing first.
We built the tool we wish we had.
[INSERT: The moment you opened Canvas and saw 40 assignments with zero context for what to start — that's where Course Compass began.]
[INSERT: A sentence or two about who you are, why you built it, and what changed when you started using it yourself.]