Scholarwire is a study planner for Canvas. Here is what students ask about it, by topic.
Signed in? The same answers are searchable in the app. Open Help.
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.
Add ?tour=1 to any page address, for example /today?tour=1. The three welcome cards open again.
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.
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.
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 An unpublished course or assignment is not there to read.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 1st of each month, UTC. The trial adds 3 a day instead. Settings, AI help shows how many are left.
Yes. One switch in Settings, AI help hides every AI feature in the app. Nothing is sent anywhere while it is off.
No. It explains, works a parallel example, checks your reasoning, outlines and quizzes you. It will not write what you hand in.
Yes, on Pro and the 14-day trial. Add it in Claude's Connectors settings, or on ChatGPT's Plugins page with developer mode on, 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.
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.
Signing in comes first, with Google or an email link. It is what gives AI features their monthly credits and, on Pro or the trial, syncs your Canvas data, notes and study material, encrypted, to every device you sign in on. On Free, sync pauses.
The server holds your identity, plan, credits and calendar feed, never the coursework itself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On this device, in this browser profile's storage and in the Scholarwire extension. On Pro and the trial, an encrypted copy is kept in your account so other devices can open it; on Free, sync pauses. 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.
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 sends your email address so an account can exist and, on Pro or the trial, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Write to support@scholarwire.app from the address your account signs in with. Say what you were trying to do and what happened instead.
Security problems: send them the same way and say security in the first line. They get looked at first. Please do not test against another student's account or data.
Ideas and complaints go to the same address, and both are read.