Tasks for Canvas – now supporting Blackboard, D2L Brightspace icon

Tasks for Canvas – now supporting Blackboard, D2L Brightspace

by tasksforcanvas.info

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Quick Look

Streamline your academic life with this extension that provides a better to-do list and progress tracker for Canvas, Blackboard, and D2L Brightspace assignments.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Students using Canvas, Blackboard, or D2L Brightspace who need help organizing and tracking their assignments.

Key Features

  • Consolidated to-do list of all assignments
  • Visual progress tracking with colorful rings
  • Support for Canvas, Blackboard, and D2L Brightspace
  • Custom task creation and filtering options
  • Syncs Gradescope assignments directly

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Overwhelmingly Positive

Users overwhelmingly praise the extension for its effectiveness in organizing assignments and providing clear progress tracking across multiple learning platforms.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.


What Users Love

  • Greatly improves assignment organization
  • Helpful visual progress tracking
  • Supports multiple learning management systems

Points to Consider

  • × Occasional minor bugs or display issues reported
  • × Requires manual reloading after installation

Official Description

From the Developer


A better to-do list sidebar for Canvas, Blackboard, and D2L Brightspace.

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NEW: Extension now supports Blackboard and D2L Brightspace as well! NEW: Keep your streak alive by submitting assignments before their due date! NEW: Sync your Gradescope assignments directly to Tasks for Canvas!

Ever had trouble finding your weekly assignments? Wish you had a nice progress bar to motivate you to complete everything? Then this extension is for you! The Tasks browser extension for Canvas™ updates the Canvas dashboard sidebar with a convenient todo list to show all of your weekly assignments and track your progress throughout the week.

The sidebar includes:

  • A colorful chart with various rings color coded by course. As you complete your assignments throughout the week, the rings will show your progress!
  • A better to-do list of all active assignments that are counted in the rings. Each task item has the name, course, type, due date, point value, and link for the assignment.
  • A list of recent class announcements
  • The option to create custom task items
  • The option to filter assignments by course
  • The option to view rings and assignments from past and future weeks
  • The option to view completed or incomplete assignments -The option to manually mark assignments as complete

This extension also contains an options page accessible from the sidebar where you can customize various aspects of the extension.

Notes

  • Works in Card View, List View, Recent Activity View, and on course pages!
  • Only courses that have active assignments will be shown
  • All active assignments that have no submissions and are ungraded are displayed in the to-do list (the section titled 'Unfinished').
  • 0-point assignments (i.e. extra credit) are shown in the to-do list but are not counted in the rings.

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Key Info

  • Rating:
    4.8/5.0

    (537 ratings)

  • Users:1,000,000
  • Version:1.5.3
  • Updated:May 18, 2025
  • Developer:Visit Website →

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