CanvasTools

Customize your Canvas experience and do advanced things with your Canvas by Instructure account.

CanvasTools: Customize Your Canvas Experience

CanvasTools is a Chrome extension that allows Canvas by Instructure users to personalize their online environments and add advanced capabilities. With CanvasTools, users can modify color schemes, send messages from any tab, receive message notifications, download material for offline use, effortlessly submit files, and more. The extension also incorporates features like adding custom elements to posts, Footer setting, and Chrome omnibar search capability for your Canvas courses and groups. Please remember this tool is not affiliated nor owned by Instructure.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Rating: 4.64
(11)
Version: 0.0.4.4 (Last updated: 2020-09-18)
Creation date: 2018-05-29
Permissions:
  • webRequest
  • storage
  • notifications
  • alarms
  • webRequestBlocking
  • unlimitedStorage
  • contextMenus
  • *://*.instructure.com/*
Size: 2.21M
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Very excellent
  • Awesome omnibox integration
  • Good program with many features and fast performance
  • Great addition for stylizing Canvas webpages
  • Good tool for customizing Canvas
Cons
  • Doesn't work on Chromebook
  • Requires page refresh after making changes on Canvas
Most mentioned
  • Very excellent
  • Awesome. Love the omnibox integration.
  • Good program with many features and is very fast.
  • Great addition to chrome if you want to stylize your Canvas webpage.
User reviews
Very excellent
by JT Race, 2021-01-29

It doesn't work for me. Does it even work on Chromebook?
by Dax Wilson, 2020-10-09

Awesome. Love the omnibox integration.
by Nicholas Wadsworth, 2018-03-01
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Extension safety

Risk impact

CanvasTools requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of CanvasTools. Use it at your own risk.

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