Canvas Edit Button

This extension only toggles Canvas assignment pages between edit and view modes. Designed to help improve teacher experience with…
What is Canvas Edit Button?
Canvas Edit Button is a Chrome extension designed to help improve the teacher experience on Canvas by allowing quick toggling between edit and view modes on assignment pages. It does not collect user data, access user information, or transmit any information. It only interacts with the URL and the save button on instructure.com assignment pages.

Extension stats

By: ozarkdev
Users: 224 ▲ 7
Version: 0.2 (Last updated: 2020-01-11)
Creation date: 2020-01-10
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 51.84K

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Extension summary

This extension only toggles Canvas assignment pages between edit and view modes. Designed to help improve teacher experience with Quizzes 2.

Privacy Policy: This extension does not collect any user data, nor does it connect to any servers or cdns. It will not transmit any information whatsoever. This extension cannot access user information or student information in any way. The extension only interacts with the url and the save button via javascript of instructure.com assignments pages.

Usage: The teacher must be logged in to an instructure.com account. If the user is on the instructure.com domain in assignments when the button is pressed, the url is checked for "/edit". If it's not found, javascript is used to remove GET variables and append "/edit" to the url. If it is found, javascript is used to press the "Save" button.

Changelog: v0.2 - fine tuned url restriction for instructure.com extension will only work on canvas assignments.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Canvas Edit Button requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Canvas Edit Button has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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