Silent Student: the desktop app that works through your Canvas homework

Silent Student works through your own Canvas account, and every draft passes through the writing humanizer so prose reads in your own voice rather than generic AI phrasing. No tool can promise a specific AI-detector outcome, and we don't claim one — you're responsible for following your institution's academic-integrity policies. On Canvas, essays, discussion posts and file uploads are always drafted so you can read and edit them before anything submits; on external courseware like Packback the post is published directly.

Canvas essays, discussion posts and file uploads are held as drafts automatically — you review, edit, regenerate, or approve before they submit. Graded single-attempt untimed quizzes stop for review too, and you set the confidence threshold that forces that stop; the hold lasts about 15 minutes and then submits on its own rather than leaving the quiz unsubmitted, as long as the bot is still running when the window closes. Timed and multi-attempt quizzes, and work on external courseware like Packback, submit on their own.

Yes. SilentStudent drives third-party tools embedded in Canvas the same way you would, in its own browser. Its Vision agent is built for every one of them: Packback, Yellowdig, Perusall, Labster, Kritik, Harmonize and more, including tools not listed here. It reads the page the way you would, enters each answer through the page's own controls and reads it back before it moves on.

Essays and text entry, quizzes (most question types — calculated and in-quiz file-upload questions have no handler), discussion posts and replies, file uploads (DOCX/PDF), and external tool assignments. Essentially everything except URL submissions.

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 13 or later, or Windows 10 or later (64-bit). It isn’t available for Chromebook or iPad. It’s built for Canvas and also works with D2L Brightspace, Moodle and Blackboard Learn Ultra.

Three steps: connect your Canvas account, pick your settings, and hit run. SilentStudent syncs your courses and assignments automatically. The first launch also downloads the browser component it does the work in — around 180 MB — so the first time through takes noticeably longer than every time after it, and how much longer depends on your connection.

Yes, with no long-term commitment. Cancel from your account page and you keep access through the end of the billing period you’ve already paid for. Want to see it first? Watch the live demo.

No. Silent Student is a desktop app, not a browser extension, and it does the work in its own browser. It runs on a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 13 or later, or on Windows 10 or later (64-bit). It isn’t available for Chromebook or iPad. See how it differs from Canvas quiz extensions.

Yes. Sign-ups are open to everyone, with no waitlist. Anyone can create an account at silentstudent.com/join and pay through Stripe. The waitlist ended on September 24, 2026.

Yes. Silent Student is a desktop app for Mac and Windows, made by El Dorado Ignition LLC, that signs in to Canvas and the homework platforms it links to, works through each assignment and submits it. Plans cost $11.99, $24.99 or $49.99 a month, with no free plan, and no free trial for general signups. It is in public beta and does not take proctored exams. Compare AI that does your homework.