What We Actually Built, and Why

I am a student at Auburn. I built ClassOS because I kept doing the same dumb loop: open Canvas, click into five courses, add up percentages in my head, close Canvas, and still not know which assignment actually mattered that day.

That is the whole origin story. There was no market research. There was a semester where I checked Canvas constantly and still got surprised.

What it actually does

ClassOS connects to Canvas with a personal access token you generate yourself and paste in. From there it reads your courses, your assignments, your due dates, and your scores, and puts them on one screen that answers the question Canvas makes you assemble by hand: where do I stand, and what is due next.

On top of that read there are a few things I wanted badly enough to build:

• A GPA number that counts the zeros. A course sitting at a real 0% is not "no data" — it is the most important number on your dashboard, and it kept getting skipped.
• Deadlines rendered in your timezone. An 11:59 PM deadline showing up as the next morning is not a cosmetic bug, it is a missed assignment.
• Alerts that reach you when the app is closed. A dashboard you have to open to be warned by is not a warning system.

Live Grade TrackingEvery Canvas grade on one screen, updated when Canvas updates.

What it does not do

It does not write to your Canvas. The only write that exists anywhere in the product is a submission you start yourself, on purpose, from a screen that says so. Everything else is read-only, and I intend to keep it that way — the moment a tool starts acting on your account for you is the moment it becomes something a school is right to be nervous about.

It does not do your homework. Scout, the AI part, reads your semester and answers questions about it: what is due, what a grade means, what you would need on the final. It is a study aid, not an academic authority, and it can be wrong. Your syllabus and your school's records are the official ones.

It is not a Chrome extension scraping the page behind Canvas's back. It uses the official Canvas API, with a token you control and can revoke from Canvas in about ten seconds.

Where it actually is

Six students have connected their real Canvas accounts. That is the number. It is small, it is real, and I would rather print it than invent a bigger one.

Paid plans went live this month. Free covers the dashboard, the grades, and the deadlines. Pro is $4.99 a month and adds the GPA simulator and the deeper analytics. Scout is $14.99 a month for the full co-pilot. Every plan's real limits are printed on the paywall, including the ones that used to say "unlimited" and were not.

Why I am telling you this

Because the version of this post that used to sit at this URL was a made-up student saying ClassOS took them from a 2.3 to Dean's List. Nobody wrote it. It never happened. I took it down.

If ClassOS is going to be worth paying for, it has to be the kind of product that can say six and mean six. So: six students, one school it was built at, any Canvas school it works with, and a semester starting tomorrow that will tell me what still does not work.

ScoutChatGPT knows everything. Scout knows your semester.