Change how Canvas looks

Scope can restyle Canvas in your browser. You can switch to a warmer theme, tighten or loosen the dashboard cards, see your current grade on each course card, and peek at an assignment without opening it. These changes affect only what you see. Your instructors and classmates see Canvas as usual. All of these options are in the Scope popup under Settings > Appearance. Changes apply to your open Canvas tabs right away, so you can watch them as you choose.

Canvas appearance works on Canvas only. Brightspace pages stay as they are.

Choose a theme for Scope itself

Theme sets the colors of the Scope popup and the search bar that opens on course pages. It doesn’t change Canvas.

Open Settings

Click the Scope icon, then click the Settings icon (the gear).

Pick light or dark

Under Appearance, next to Theme, click Light or Dark.

Choose a Canvas theme

Canvas theme changes the colors of Canvas pages.

Canvas theme	What it looks like
Canvas Default	Canvas exactly as your school set it up.
Paper	Warm, cream-colored pages with copper accents, easier on the eyes for long reading.

Open Appearance

In the Scope popup, go to Settings > Appearance.

Pick a theme

Open the Canvas theme menu and choose a theme.

With Paper on, Scope also matches the toolbar around PDFs in Canvas’s document viewer and the background of course video galleries. The PDF pages and the video player themselves don’t change.

Change dashboard card spacing

Card density sets how much space the course cards on your Canvas dashboard take up.

Option	Effect
Canvas default	Canvas’s usual spacing.
Compact	Smaller cards, so more courses fit on screen.
Cozy	A little more room than Compact.
Comfy	The most room around each card.

Canvas tweaks

Under Settings > Appearance, open Canvas tweaks to find these switches. They’re all off until you turn them on.

Switch	What it does
Grade pills on cards	Shows your current letter grade and percentage, such as “A 94.2%”, on each course card on your Canvas dashboard. Grades refresh about every 30 minutes while Canvas is open.
Hover previews	When you hover a link to an assignment, quiz, or announcement, shows a small preview with its title, due date, and description.
Hide recent feedback	Hides the Recent Feedback list on your Canvas dashboard.
Hide Help link	Hides Canvas’s Help item in the left navigation.

Grade pills show only the grades Canvas shows you. If a course hides grades, its card has no pill.

Reset Canvas appearance

To put Canvas back the way it was, go to Settings > Appearance > Canvas tweaks and click Reset Canvas appearance. Scope asks you to confirm, because this can’t be undone. It clears your theme, card colors, and font choices. Turning everything back to Canvas Default and turning off each tweak has the same effect, one setting at a time.

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Change how Canvas looks

Choose a theme for Scope itself

Choose a Canvas theme

Change dashboard card spacing

Canvas tweaks

Reset Canvas appearance

Settings reference

Track what's due

​Choose a theme for Scope itself

​Choose a Canvas theme

​Change dashboard card spacing

​Canvas tweaks

​Reset Canvas appearance

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Settings reference

Track what's due

Choose a theme for Scope itself

Choose a Canvas theme

Change dashboard card spacing

Canvas tweaks

Reset Canvas appearance

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