How Silent Student works

Download and sign in

Download Silent Student for Mac or Windows. Open it, enter your Canvas credentials, and the app signs into your school's Canvas portal through its own browser — your personal Chrome, Safari, or Firefox stays completely untouched.

Silent Student supports direct Canvas login, SSO providers (Okta, ClassLink, Clever), and CAS authentication. If your school uses multi-factor auth, you complete it once during setup and the session persists.

Sync your courses

One click pulls every course, assignment, quiz, discussion, and external tool link from Canvas. Silent Student reads each assignment's type, due date, point value, and submission status, then sorts everything into a priority queue — overdue first, then due soonest.

External courseware (WebAssign, Apex, Cengage, Packback, SmartBook, myBusinessCourse) is detected automatically from the assignment URL. Each platform routes to its own dedicated solver — no configuration needed.

Queue and run

Pick a single assignment, an entire course, or everything at once. Hit Run and the bot starts working through the queue in due-date order. You can watch it work, minimize the app, or close the lid and let it run overnight.

For quizzes, the bot reads each question, determines the answer using Claude AI, and submits. For math platforms like WebAssign, it types into the equation editor with proper notation — derivatives, integrals, subscripts, superscripts. For Apex Learning, it navigates the Kuiper player at human-like pace with jittered timing between questions.

Review drafts

Essays, discussion posts, and written responses are never auto-submitted. Silent Student drafts the response and pauses, waiting for you to approve, edit, or regenerate. You see the full text before anything goes in with your name on it.

For Packback discussions where AI detection is active, the draft goes through a humanization layer that adjusts sentence structure and vocabulary patterns. If you've uploaded writing samples, the bot matches your personal writing style.

Check your grades

When the queue empties, the bot stops. Open Canvas in your own browser and check your grades. Every submission is logged in the app's activity feed with timestamps, scores, and any errors — so you know exactly what happened while you were away.