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Hyper for Canvas
Search your Canvas courses, assignments, grades, discussions, and inbox, and submit work, post, and send messages, as you. One connection covers your account at one school.
How Hyper works with Canvas
What Hyper reads
Hyper keeps a searchable copy of the courses that are active for you now. For each course, it copies the syllabus, your current grade, assignments (with due dates and your submission's status, score, and grade), announcements, discussions (only the first post, not the replies), pages, modules (the units that a course is split into), and course calendar events. It also copies your inbox conversations, with only the newest message of each. It does not copy files, quizzes, past or future courses, or archived conversations. Only you can search this copy, even if you share the connection. Hyper reads all of it again about every hour, and an item that is deleted, or a course that ends, leaves Hyper at the next read. When you ask, Hyper can also read full discussion threads and inbox conversations, quizzes, grader comments, the score for each part of a grading guide (rubric), your planner and to-do list, groups, and the names and links of files. It cannot read what is inside a file.
What Hyper can do
Submit assignments as text or a link. Answer and turn in quizzes made with the older Canvas quiz tool (Classic Quizzes). Post and reply in discussions. Send and reply to inbox messages. Comment on your submissions and do peer reviews. Create, change, and delete calendar events and planner notes. Join and leave groups. Change your notification settings and course nicknames. Create and delete Canvas access tokens, the keys that let an app use your account. If you are a teacher or admin, Hyper can also do what your role allows, such as grade work and change courses. Hyper cannot upload files, so it cannot submit a file, and it cannot take back a submission. Hyper asks you before each action, unless you chose to always allow that kind of action.
Before you connect
The token that you paste lets Hyper do everything that your Canvas account can do, including read your grades and private messages. Teachers see a submission at once, and you cannot take it back. If an assignment allows only one try, the submission is final. A sent message cannot be taken back, and Canvas can notify each person in it by email or on their phone. A student token stops working after at most 120 days, and then you must connect again. Your school can stop students from making tokens. When you disconnect, Hyper deletes the token in Canvas. Teachers and classmates write discussions, pages, and messages, and these can hide instructions that try to trick an assistant, so check each change before you approve it.