Best Free Canvas Chrome Extensions for College Students

What each one actually does, so you can pick based on what you need

There isn't one "best" Canvas extension, because they solve different problems. Some focus on appearance, some on task tracking, some on grades. Here's an honest rundown of what's out there and who each one actually fits, including where we think GPA Plus fits into that picture rather than pretending it's the only option.

BetterCampus (formerly Better Canvas)

The most feature-dense option if what you want is to change how Canvas looks and feels. It's built around a fully customizable dark mode with dozens of user-made themes, a redesigned dashboard with color and layout controls, an enhanced to-do list, and its own GPA calculator. If you spend a lot of time in Canvas and want it to feel less like the stock interface, this is the one with the most options.

Tasks for Canvas

A focused to-do sidebar rather than a full redesign. It pulls your assignments across courses into one weekly view with color-coded progress rings, lets you set a custom time window for what shows up, and now supports Blackboard and D2L Brightspace alongside Canvas. If task tracking is the actual problem and you don't need theme customization, this does less overall but does that one thing cleanly.

Simple dark-mode-only extensions

Several lightweight extensions exist that do nothing but toggle Canvas into a dark color scheme, with no dashboard changes, GPA tools, or task features. If dark mode is genuinely the only thing bothering you, one of these is a smaller footprint than a full customization suite.

GPA Plus

This is ours, so judge the framing accordingly: GPA Plus is narrowly focused on the grade and GPA side specifically, including computing a real percentage in courses where an instructor has hidden the total, a what-if slider for projecting a final exam score, and a single due-date feed across all your courses. It doesn't do dashboard theming or dark mode. If grades and due dates are the whole problem, it's a smaller, more focused tool than BetterCampus; if you also want a visual overhaul, BetterCampus covers more ground in one install.

How to actually choose

• Want a visual overhaul plus a bit of everything: BetterCampus.
• Want just a clean due-date list, nothing else: Tasks for Canvas.
• Want just dark mode, nothing else: a dedicated dark-mode extension.
• Want accurate grades and GPA, including when a professor hides the total: GPA Plus.

Nothing stops you from running more than one at once, since they generally cover different parts of the interface. For the grade-specific mechanics behind why a number might be missing in the first place, see the full breakdown of why Canvas hides grades.