ND Studio

Free for Canvas teachers · Chrome, Edge and Firefox

A better Canvas, free the moment you install.

Dark mode, one-click page design and ready-made page templates, free forever. Upgrade for grading tools, badges, smart due dates, 504/IEP support and course-wide bulk actions that save hours. Everything lives in one panel inside Canvas.

Free forever · Optional $5/month upgrade · Installs in about a minute · Your data stays on your device

Illustration of the Canvas dashboard in light and dark, with four dark styles: Classic, High contrast, Soothing and Midnight blue

The toolkit

One panel. Everything you need.

Open the Teacher Toolkit button on any Canvas page and everything is a click away. Free comes with the install. Premium unlocks with a $5/month subscription.

Full dark modeFree

One click turns all of Canvas dark: gradebook, dialogs, files and announcements included. Missing assignments stay highlighted in red so nothing slips past you.

Page design componentsFree

Drop in styled hero banners, callout boxes, buttons, unit cards, vocab chips and task lists. Then style any page dark and save it.

Ready-made page templatesFree

Start a Syllabus, Unit overview, Lab or Week-at-a-glance page from a polished template in one click, then fill in your details.

Custom colorsPremium

Recolor buttons, accents and the hero gradient to match your course or school palette. The colors carry across every component.

Course roadmap generatorPremium

Turn your modules into a clean, visual roadmap graphic your students can follow, generated automatically from your course.

Faster SpeedGraderPremium

Set a grade, insert a saved comment and jump to the next student in a single click. Fill rubrics to full marks and use number-key shortcuts.

Reusable feedback bankPremium

Save the comments you write over and over, then insert them with one tap or a number key. Build it once, reuse it all year.

Automatic late penaltiesPremium

Your tiered late policy applied to the score in one click.

Achievement badgesPremium

Define a badge set per course, upload the art to your files, and award badges right inside student feedback.

Course-wide bulk actionsPremium

Restyle every page dark, apply an assignment preset to many assignments, shift a batch of due dates, or publish and unpublish in bulk. You pick exactly which items, and exempt the rest.

Smart due datesPremium

Set "due in X days" for the whole class. Count calendar or school days, skip holidays, and auto-apply extended-time overrides.

Assignment setup presetsPremium

Save your standard assignment settings (points, submission type, group, attempts) and apply the whole configuration in one click.

One-click missing-work outreachPremium

Message every student who has missing work with a personalized note listing their own late assignments.

504 / IEP accommodationsPremium

Bulk-import a whole caseload, keep private on-device records that follow each student into every course, and see accommodations in the gradebook and SpeedGrader.

Class health dashboardPremium

See grade distribution, best and toughest assignments, and which students may need help, pulled live from Canvas.

Accessibility checkPremium

Scan a page for missing alt text, skipped headings, vague link text, header-less tables and low contrast, with plain-English fixes for each.

Private by designFree

Everything stays on your computer. The only thing ever sent out is a license check for Premium. Never your grades, students or 504/IEP notes.

Yours to configureFree

Turn features on or off, add a custom Canvas domain, and back up and restore your settings, all from a clean Settings page.

Take the full feature tour
Illustration of SpeedGrader with a feedback bank of numbered comments and a Grade plus comment plus next button

Premium · Grade in a fraction of the time

Grade, comment and advance. One click.

The grading tools live right in SpeedGrader, so you never leave the page or reach for the mouse.

  • Apply a grade, a saved comment and move to the next student in a single action
  • Fill rubrics to full marks instantly
  • Insert your most-used feedback with number keys 1 to 9
  • Jump between students with the bracket keys
Illustration of extended-time due dates: everyone due Friday, with 1.5x and 2x students given later dates, and a 504 badge in SpeedGrader

Premium · Support every student

Accommodations, handled with care.

Keep track of who needs what, privately, on your own device, and act on it without spreadsheets.

  • Bulk import a whole caseload from a document, email or spreadsheet
  • Records stored locally only, and they follow each student into every course and quarter
  • A quiet flag in the gradebook and a badge in SpeedGrader, with 504/IEP details on hover or click
  • Due dates auto-adjust for 1.5× and 2× extended time
See how the 504 and IEP accommodations tracker works
Illustration of bulk grading: score every cell marked Missing across a gradebook in one click

Premium · Do a whole course at once

Change a hundred things in a few clicks.

The end-of-unit scramble, the snow-day reshuffle, the "did everyone turn this in?" Handled in one pass, without opening each item.

  • Restyle every page dark while keeping all your text
  • Apply a saved setup preset to a batch of assignments
  • Shift a group of due dates by any number of days
  • Message every student with missing work, personalized
  • Publish or unpublish assignments, pages or modules in bulk

You pick exactly which items are affected and exempt the rest. These tools only ever change settings, never your content.

Private by design

Your data never leaves your device.

Preferences, feedback, grades you view and sensitive 504/IEP notes all stay in your browser. The only thing the extension ever sends out is a license check to confirm a Premium subscription. Nothing personal, ever.

No analyticsNo trackingNo adsNo student data collectedFERPA-minded
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Simple pricing

Start free. Upgrade only if you want more.

No credit card to install. The free tier is useful on its own. Premium is there when you are ready.

Free · No account needed

$0

Yours forever

  • Full Canvas dark mode
  • Insert pre-styled page components
  • Style any page dark in one click
  • Save your styled pages
  • Ready-made full-page templates
  • Custom Canvas domain and settings backup
Chrome, Edge and FirefoxAdd to Chrome, free

Questions

Good to know

Is it really free?

Yes. Install it and dark mode, page components, full-page templates, page styling and saving are yours with no account, no card and no time limit. Premium features (grading tools, badges, dashboards, smart due dates, 504/IEP tools, custom colors, course-wide bulk actions, missing-work messaging and the accessibility check) are an optional $5/month upgrade.

Does it work with my school's Canvas?

Yes. It runs automatically on *.instructure.com, and you can add a custom Canvas address in Settings if your school uses one.

Is my student and 504/IEP data safe?

All of it is stored only on your device and is never uploaded, sold or shared. The single outbound request is a Premium license check containing only your key and a random device ID.

Chrome and Firefox?

Both. Install free from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons. If you upgrade, activate your key and you are set on either browser.

What happens after the Premium trial?

Billing begins at $5/month, and you can cancel anytime. If you do not upgrade, nothing is charged. You keep the free features.