For students
Canvas shows you deadlines. It never tells you you’re about to fall behind.
Waypoint reads your whole Canvas account and shows you what actually matters — the week that doesn’t fit, the thread your group is stuck on, and what your grade really is.
Why this exists
Nobody falls behind on one assignment
They fall behind because four landed in the same two days. Each one had a reasonable deadline. Nothing in Canvas adds them up, so the collision is invisible until you’re inside it.
Waypoint sizes every piece of work, sums what’s due in a window, and compares it against the hours that window actually contains once sleep and class are taken out.
The same 48 hours, measured two ways
What the window holds
What is due inside it
29 hours of work, 12 hours to do it in. Every one of those four assignments looked comfortable on its own calendar entry. Canvas showed four green rows. The problem was only ever visible in the total.
29 hours of work due within 48 hours
Allowing for sleep, classes and everything else, roughly 12h of that window is realistically usable.
Four assignments. Not one looked dangerous alone — each had a comfortable deadline. Together they didn’t fit, and no reminder app would have said so, because they all look at assignments one at a time.
Four things Canvas can’t do
Knows your pattern
It learns how you actually work
Canvas records no time spent — but it records when you submitted against when things were due, for every assignment you’ve ever handed in. One real account reads median 32 hours early, across 24 submissions, 25% late. Warnings fire against that, not a countdown. If you always start the night before, you don’t need nagging four days out.
Sees the whole week
It catches the week that doesn't fit
Students rarely fall behind because one assignment was too big. They fall behind because four landed together. Waypoint sizes everything due and compares the total against the hours you actually have — not the hours on the calendar.
Honest grades
It tells you what your grade really is
A course showing 100% when only 20% has been graded is not a course you’re safe in — and that’s exactly what Canvas displays. Waypoint handles weighted categories, drop-lowest rules and excused work, then tells you what you need on what’s left.
People, not just points
It notices when you're the holdup
A group thread you haven’t answered outranks any deadline. A late assignment costs points; going quiet on a group costs standing with people you’ll work with all semester. Announcements are filtered out — only threads where humans are actually talking.
Inside a course
The spreadsheet you keep rebuilding, already done
Weighted categories, drop-lowest rules, excused work and how much of the grade has actually been decided — then the only line that matters: what you need on what’s left, for every letter still in reach.
When the remaining work spans several weighted categories and there is no single answer, it says so instead of inventing a number you might plan around.
Just want the one number for your final? Use the free calculator — no account, nothing to connect.
Rhetoric & Composition
94.2% · 31% of the grade assessed
This percentage is not the whole story
Only 31% of the final grade has been decided. Canvas shows the 94.2% and stops there.
Grade breakdown
What you need on what is left
People, not just points
See who has shown up, and who hasn’t
A graded discussion is a room. Canvas makes you scroll the whole thread to work out whether you are in it. Waypoint puts the faces at the top: six posted, two haven’t, and you are one of them.
A thread you have not answered outranks any deadline on the list. A late assignment costs points; going quiet on a group costs standing with people you work with all semester.
Group work
Your group is already in here
Canvas puts you in a group and then leaves. Someone starts a thread asking whether everyone is using Teams or WhatsApp, half the group never sees it, and three days go on logistics before any work starts.
Waypoint already knows the roster, the assignment and the deadline — so the workspace exists before anyone asks for it. No invites, no swapping numbers, no setup.
- Everyone’s local time, without askingIt is the first question in every group thread, and the browser already knows the answer.
- Tasks that get proposed and agreedTap a chip, name the job, pick a date. Someone claims it or someone else signs off.
- Who is actually aroundSo you know whether to wait for a reply or start without them.
Group 8
Added from Canvas · nobody was invited
Maya Okonkwo
9:14 AM local
Deven Rao
7:14 AM local
Sofia Marchetti
4:14 PM local
Tom Bergen
10:14 AM local
I can take the intro and the literature review
Works. I’ll do methods — due Thursday your time?
Draft the literature review
Deven · by Aug 28 · Agreed
It can’t touch your coursework
Read-only, structurally
There is no code in Waypoint that can write to Canvas. No submit, no reply, no delete. Not disabled — absent.
Your token is never stored
It stays in your browser, reads Canvas, and is discarded. Nothing is written to a database, a log, or a cache.
It won’t do your work
No writing, no drafting, no submitting. That’s a deliberate line — nothing here can put you in front of an integrity board.
Reviews
There aren’t any yet, and we’re not going to make some up
Waypoint is new. Every other tool at this stage puts five glowing quotes and five stock photos on this page, and every student reading it knows exactly what those are. When a real person says something worth quoting, it will go here with their name and their school attached.
What’s here instead is checkable. The numbers above came off a real account. The read-only claim is verifiable in the code. And the first thing you see after connecting is your own data — if it’s wrong, you’ll know within thirty seconds, which is a better guarantee than a testimonial.
Official support
Ask your school to make this official
Today you connect Waypoint with an access token you generate yourself. It works, and it’s read-only — but it’s a workaround, and you shouldn’t have to paste a credential to use software.
The proper version is a sign-in button, which requires a developer key issued by your institution’s Canvas administrator. They grant those when students ask. Add your school and the request goes on the list that gets put in front of them.
Takes about a minute
- 01In Canvas, open Account → Settings and click New Access Token.
- 02Copy it. Canvas only shows it once.
- 03Paste it into Waypoint with your school's Canvas address.