Yes — on Canvas, with your UT EID and Duo.
UT runs Canvas behind UT EID single sign-on and campus-wide Duo. The economics sequence and the required RHE 306 writing course are covered — MindTap outright, and native Canvas drafting held for your approval. The gap is calculus: M 408C runs on UT Quest, the College of Natural Sciences' own in-house homework server, which has no dedicated solver.
Of the 4 UT Austin courses we looked at, Silent Student covers the courseware behind 2, partly covers 1 and has no dedicated solver for 1.
These are four of UT's largest first-year courses, compiled from published syllabi. UT is unusual in running some homework on its own departmental servers rather than a publisher's, which is exactly what creates the gap below — so check your own schedule for Quest-based courses.
Cengage MindTap
UT's high-enrollment intro microeconomics course commonly runs its online homework on the Cengage MindTap suite, opened through the Canvas course site; Silent Student launches MindTap and works the set end to end, submitting inside MindTap — publisher courseware is not held for review.
Cengage / MindTap solver →Cengage Aplia
The companion macroeconomics core course commonly uses Cengage's Aplia for its online problem sets tied to the e-book; Silent Student follows the link from Canvas and works the homework one item at a time.
Cengage / MindTap solver →Native Canvas
This required first-year writing course is major writing projects, annotated citations, and discussion-board posts handled directly in Canvas — there's no auto-graded publisher platform — so your drafts are held in Draft Review for approval before anything posts.
Canvas solver →UT Quest
First-semester calculus runs its online homework on UT Quest, the College of Natural Sciences' in-house system at quest.cns.utexas.edu — not a publisher platform, so there's no dedicated solver. Silent Student opens it from Canvas and works it with its general visual agent, holding anything uncertain for your review.
How it works →UT Austin's LMS is Canvas at utexas.instructure.com, with its info portal at canvas.utexas.edu. The Canvas login page shows a "Sign in with your UT EID" button that hands off to UT's central Enterprise Authentication, where you enter your UT EID and password and then clear a Duo multi-factor prompt. Silent Student is built around Canvas, so it reads your courses through the same Canvas your instructors post to.
Sign in with your UT EID and approve the Duo prompt. Silent Student keeps the Canvas session running.
Every UT Austin course and assignment is pulled from Canvas and ordered by due date.
Essays and discussion posts — like RHE 306 — are held in Draft Review, and a graded, single-attempt, untimed Canvas quiz stops for your review if an answer falls below your 70% confidence threshold.
Approved work is submitted and logged in Canvas while you're in class or asleep.
UT Quest — and it reaches a lot further than calculus. First-semester calculus (M 408C) plus much of UT's chemistry, physics and biology sequence run on Quest, the College of Natural Sciences' own in-house server rather than a publisher platform, so there is no dedicated solver for any of it. Silent Student opens those from Canvas and works them with the general visual agent, holding more for your review. ECO 304L's Cengage Aplia is likewise not one of the named dedicated solvers. If you are on a STEM track at UT, this is the thing to check first.
You approve one Duo prompt — a push, phone call, or passcode — when the session starts. Duo is used campus-wide at UT, and UT recommends enrolling at least two devices; the trusted session then persists, so you are not re-prompted on every run.
Native Canvas quizzes, essays, and discussions — like RHE 306 Rhetoric & Writing — plus the Cengage economics core: MindTap for ECO 304K and Aplia for ECO 304L. Many of UT's big STEM intro courses — first-semester calculus like M 408C, plus much of the chemistry, physics, and biology sequence — run on UT's in-house Quest system, which isn't a dedicated solver, so Silent Student works those with its general visual agent and your review.
Yes. Whether you come in through UT's Coordinated Admission Program (CAP) or transfer credit through the Texas Common Course Numbering System, Silent Student also covers the other Texas schools we have pages for: Texas A&M (also Canvas, with NetID and Duo) and Blinn College (eCampus, which is D2L Brightspace). Austin Community College is a major regional transfer source for UT, so your queue is covered before and after you transfer.
UT's academic integrity policy is yours to follow, and Silent Student does not decide it for you. RHE 306's writing is the part it genuinely holds back: your Canvas essays, discussion posts and file uploads always become drafts for you to read, edit and approve, and are never submitted on their own whatever confidence the model reports. Quizzes work differently — on a graded, single-attempt, untimed Canvas quiz with time still on the clock, an answer below your confidence threshold (70% by default) stops the quiz for your review, while timed and multi-attempt quizzes submit on their own. External courseware is the one to know about: it has no draft step at all, so a Packback post publishes as it is written.
Leave the lid up and stay on power. Silent Student is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that runs your queue in the background after you connect once, and it holds your machine awake while work is still in the queue — but it cannot stop a closing lid from sleeping the laptop, or wake a laptop that has already gone to sleep.
Open each course in Canvas and check the course navigation. UT is unusual in that several departments run homework on their own servers — Quest for CNS courses — rather than a publisher's, so the presence of a MindTap or Aplia link is the thing to look for.
Or see every school side by side in the compatibility directory.
Yes — on Canvas, with your NetID and one Duo push.
See coverage → Canvas with NetID and DuoYes — on TXST Canvas, with your NetID and Duo.
See coverage → UT System, Canvas, WebAssignYes — on Canvas, with your NetID and a NetIDplus approval.
See coverage → Canvas over an in-house homework systemPartly — UH Canvas syncs, but three of the four courses we looked at run on platforms it has no solver for.
See coverage → CoursewareSee how Silent Student works Cengage / MindTap.
Open → CoursewareSee how Silent Student works Canvas.
Open →MindTap in ECO 304K is covered outright and RHE 306's writing is drafted and held for approval. UT Quest, which M 408C runs on, is an in-house system with no dedicated solver — so check your schedule before you count on it.
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Coverage above describes UT Austin's published courseware, not a test run at The University of Texas at Austin. Courseware changes by section, instructor and term — confirm your own before relying on it.
What waits for you and what doesn't. Written work in your LMS — essays, discussion posts and file uploads — is always saved as a draft for you to read, edit and approve, and is never submitted on its own. Work on external courseware has no draft step: platforms like Packback publish as the solver writes them. Quizzes use a separate review hold, described in the FAQ above.
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