Five steps to a quiet semester.

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.

It 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 leave the laptop open overnight and let it run — Silent Student holds the machine awake while the queue still has work in it. It can't wake a sleeping computer, and closing the lid still sleeps most laptops, so leave the lid up and stay on power.

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.

Graded, single-attempt, untimed Canvas quizzes are the exception: those stop at the finish line so you can check every answer before it submits, and any answer below your confidence threshold forces that stop even with holds switched off. Timed quizzes, multi-attempt quizzes and anything close to its deadline are never held — they submit. A held quiz auto-submits when its review window runs out — provided the bot is still running and not paused. If it is stopped, quit, or the laptop is asleep, the hold waits for you instead, so a hold you never come back to can still miss a deadline.

Review drafts

Essays, discussion posts, and file uploads on Canvas 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.

Work on external courseware behaves differently, and it is worth knowing before you queue it: Packback posts are published directly rather than drafted, and so is anything the vision agent types on a platform without a dedicated solver. Either way the text goes through a voice pass that varies sentence rhythm and avoids the stock phrasing models reach for, leaving quotations, citations, formulae and code untouched. If you've uploaded writing samples, drafts are shaped toward the way you already write.

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.