Power up your learning with color themes, navigation shortcuts, and improved performance.
Gesso is a free browser extension that improves the experience of students using Canvas. Everything you could need, from color themes, to navigation shortcuts, to improved performance.
The extension has an easy-to-use settings menu, and all of our features are toggle-able.
You have a full suite of appearance settings, including dark and dim mode, custom link colors, and custom sidebar colors and layouts.
Quick Inbox opens a popup on the left side of the page, allowing you to check previews of your emails without reloading the page and possibly losing what you were working on.
If enabled, the Speed Boost feature will preload links while you're idling, resulting in much faster loading speeds of 2x or 4x on struggling connections.
A feature to improve navigation is the search box. The search box can be enabled with Control+K (Command+K on Mac) or with a sidebar button and allows you to search all of your courses for pages and module items.
Rounder Modules does just as the name says, it makes canvas modules rounder.
If the "Smart Scrolling" setting is enabled, you'll see "Scroll to Bottom" and "Back to Top" buttons on pages, discussions, and modules/assignment lists.
This can greatly speed up navigating a course with hundreds of modules.
You can see more features that are being worked on at https://codeberg.org/reesericci/gesso. This project is open source and licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later.
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Enjoyable! Areas for Improvement
YttriumOtter
Overall I really like the extension especially as it’s the only one I have found to customize Canvas on Safari. Works pretty well and don’t have many complaints. However there are some things I would love to see implemented. 1) I would love to see the ability to display a courses grade on the card view of the Dashboard if at all possible. The mobile app for Canvas does this well and I enjoy the way it looks and the ease of seeing grades.2) I would also love to see the ability to change the background color to more than just gray and darker gray, however thats nitpicking. 3) There are certain instances where the saturation or certain bits of text become VERY hard to read (for things like links and areas on modules tab of a course) so an option to change the saturation or just a fix for this would be awesome. Like I said, overall very nice quality of life extension but there are a few things that would be awesome to see!
Great with a few missed opportunities:
jhfvhgtfgj
Overall Canvas is WAY better with this installed, but it would be nice if there was an option to remove the teacher-set course card images to just have the plain color (or add your own images) and to have the ability to have custom background colors. Also, not for me, but it would be cool to see and option for customizable text fonts.
Seems like a great concept, but…
TheOddLia
The extension only works on normal Canvas instances. My school hosts its Canvas on a custom domain, essentially making it useless for my case.
Developer Response
This will be fixed soon, thanks for letting me know.--reese
Name change to Gesso
Version 0.4.3
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