Canvas Teacher Toolkit

Dark mode plus grading, page-design, badge, due-date, and 504/IEP accommodation tools built into your Canvas teaching workflow.

A free toolkit for Canvas teachers to save you time and stress: dark mode, page templates, faster grading, smart due dates, and course-wide bulk actions. Detailed description Canvas Teacher Toolkit adds a full set of teaching tools right inside the Canvas LMS, so you can design better course pages, grade faster, and run your classes with far less busywork — without ever leaving Canvas or copying content into another app. Install free in about a minute — no account, no sign-up, no credit card. Everything runs locally in your browser: no server and no data collection. The core design tools are free forever. An optional upgrade ($1/month, with a 14-day free trial) unlocks the grading, admin, accommodation, and course-wide bulk tools. What's free vs. Premium Free forever: full Canvas dark mode, page-design components, ready-made full-page templates, one-click page styling and saving, custom Canvas domain, and settings backup. Premium ($1/month): custom component colors, faster SpeedGrader and feedback bank, achievement badges, class-health dashboard, course roadmap, assignment presets, smart due dates, 504/IEP tools, course-wide bulk actions, missing-work messaging, and the accessibility checker. Design your course faster Dark mode for all of Canvas (Free) One click turns the entire Canvas interface dark — gradebook, announcements, dialogs, and file lists included — so it's easier on the eyes during long grading sessions. Missing assignments stay highlighted in red (and late work in amber) so nothing slips past you. Page design components (Free; custom colors Premium) Insert ready-made, styled components — hero headers, callout boxes, buttons, unit cards, vocabulary chips, and task lists — into the Rich Content Editor, then restyle any existing page to match with one click and save it. Upgrade to recolor buttons, accents, and the hero gradient to match your course or school palette. Ready-made page templates (Free) Start a Syllabus, Unit/Module overview, Lab/Assignment, or Week-at-a-glance page from a polished, complete layout in one click — then just fill in your details. No HTML, no starting from a blank page. Spend less time on admin Faster SpeedGrader (Premium) Set a grade, drop in a saved comment, and advance to the next student in a single click. Build a reusable feedback bank, fill rubrics to full marks, and use number-key shortcuts to insert your most-used comments. Smart due dates (Premium) Set a "due in X days" date for the whole class and automatically apply extended-time overrides (1.5x, 2x) for students who need them. Choose calendar days or school days and skip holidays. Assignment setup presets (Premium) Save your standard assignment settings — points, submission type, grading type, group, and attempts — and apply the whole configuration in one click. Course-wide bulk actions (Premium) Change a hundred things in a few clicks — you pick exactly which items are affected and exempt the rest, and these tools only ever change settings, never your content: Restyle every page dark at once (keeps all your text) Apply a setup preset to a batch of assignments Shift a group of due dates by any number of days Publish or unpublish assignments, pages, or modules in bulk One-click missing-work outreach (Premium) Message every student who has missing work with a personalized note listing their own late assignments — turning the red flags in your gradebook into action, not just color. Teach every student well Achievement badges (Premium) Define a badge set per course, upload the artwork to your course files, and award badges in student feedback with a scan-and-match workflow. Class health dashboard (Premium) See grade distribution, your best and toughest assignments, and which students may need help — pulled live from Canvas, at a glance. Course roadmap generator (Premium) Turn your modules into a clean, visual roadmap graphic your students can follow — generated automatically from your course. Accommodation management (504 / IEP) (Premium) Keep a private, on-device record of student accommodations by class period, flag students at a glance, and offer accommodations through a Canvas message — with an optional weekly reminder to check in. Accessibility checker (Premium) Scan a page for missing image alt text, skipped heading levels, vague link text, header-less tables, and low-contrast text. Every issue points you to the exact element, and best-effort quick fixes (which you review and save yourself) help you clean it up fast. Your data stays yours Every setting and record — feedback comments, badge sets, class schedule, and any 504/IEP accommodation notes — is stored only on your computer, never uploaded, sold, or shared. The only thing the extension ever sends out is a license check to confirm your subscription (just your license key and a random device ID) — no names, student data, grades, browsing history, analytics, or ads. Back up or erase everything anytime from the Settings page. See the privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/canvas-teacher-toolkit/privacy-policy Works with your Canvas site Runs automatically on instructure.com. If your school uses a custom Canvas address, add it in Settings and approve access.