# Scope Docs

> Learn how to install and use every Scope app: the Chrome extension, Lectra for iPad, and Polya.

- [Scope documentation](https://docs.canvascope.org/index.md): Learn how to install and use every Scope app: the Scope extension for Chrome, Lectra for iPad, and Polya.
- [What is Scope?](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/overview.md): Scope is a set of free study apps that work with your Canvas or Brightspace course: an extension for Chrome, Lectra for iPad, and Polya.
- [Choose the right app](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/choose-an-app.md): Find the Scope app that does what you want: search your course, mark up a PDF, get help with a problem, and more.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/quickstart.md): Set up the Scope extension, Lectra, and Polya in your first 10 minutes.
- [System requirements](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/system-requirements.md): The browsers, devices, operating systems, and learning platforms each Scope app supports.
- [Your Scope account](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/account.md): How one Scope account works across the Scope extension, Lectra, and Polya, how to sign in and out of each app, and how to use Lectra without an account.
- [Delete your account and data](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/delete-your-account.md): Delete your Scope account from Lectra or by email, remove data from each app, and see what gets deleted.
- [Privacy at a glance](https://docs.canvascope.org/get-started/privacy.md): A plain-language summary of what the Scope extension, Lectra, and Polya keep on your device, what they store with your account, and how AI features use your data.
- [Scope extension for Chrome](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/overview.md): Scope is a free Chrome extension that searches all your Canvas and Brightspace courses at once, tracks what's due, answers questions from your course materials, and sends files to Lectra on your iPad.
- [Install the Scope extension](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/install.md): Add Scope to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store, pin it to your toolbar, and understand what Chrome asks you to allow.
- [Connect your courses](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/connect-your-courses.md): Open your Canvas or Brightspace site once so Scope can find your courses, keep them up to date, and add your school's site if Scope doesn't recognize it.
- [Sign in to Scope](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/sign-in.md): Sign in to the Scope extension with Google to use Ask Scope, your calendar, Send to Lectra, and other account features, and learn how to sign out.
- [Search your courses](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/search.md): Find any file, page, assignment, quiz, or video across all your Canvas and Brightspace courses from one search bar.
- [Track what's due](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/due-dates.md): See overdue work, today's deadlines, and the week ahead across every course in one list, and get reminders before things are due.
- [Add syllabus deadlines to your calendar](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/syllabus-deadlines.md): Have Scope pull the exams, assignments, and due dates out of a Canvas syllabus, then add the ones you pick to your agenda and Google Calendar.
- [Ask Scope](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/ask-scope.md): Ask questions about your courses in plain words, get answers from your own course materials, and let Scope add study to-dos and calendar blocks that you can undo.
- [Make a study plan](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/study-plan.md): Turn your upcoming deadlines into a study plan, put study blocks on your Google Calendar, and get a daily briefing of what matters today.
- [Practice quizzes and exams](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/practice.md): Generate a practice quiz or a full practice exam with an answer key, drawn from the materials your instructors posted.
- [Grades, notes, and focus tools](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/course-tools.md): Check your grades, try what-if GPA scenarios, run a focus timer with background sound, and keep quick notes, all from the Scope search bar.
- [Send a course to Polya](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/study-in-polya.md): Bring the Canvas course you're looking at into Polya, the course tutor, in one step from the Scope search bar.
- [Send files to Lectra on your iPad](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/send-to-ipad.md): Send PDFs and other course files from Chrome to Lectra on your iPad, bring a whole course across at once, and attach your marked-up work back to Canvas and Gradescope.
- [Change how Canvas looks](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/canvas-appearance.md): Pick a Canvas theme, adjust dashboard card spacing, show your grades on course cards, preview assignments on hover, and hide parts of Canvas you don't use.
- [Plan classes in Berkeley's Schedule Planner](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/berkeley-schedule-planner.md): See instructor ratings, student comments, past grades, building locations, and how a class fits your Google Calendar week, right inside UC Berkeley's Schedule Planner.
- [Commands](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/commands.md): Every command you can run from the Scope search bar on a course page, what it does, and what to type.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/keyboard-shortcuts.md): Every key the Scope extension responds to, in the search bar on course pages and in the toolbar popup.
- [Settings](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/settings.md): A reference for every setting in the Scope extension: your account, Canvas appearance, features, course sites, search, suggestions, and your data.
- [Privacy and your data](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/privacy-and-data.md): What the Scope extension keeps in your browser, what it keeps with your account when you sign in, what it sends to answer questions, and how to clear it.
- [Troubleshoot the Scope extension](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/troubleshooting.md): Fix common problems with the Scope extension: the search bar not opening, courses missing, search finding nothing, sign-in, Send to Lectra, reminders, and more.
- [Uninstall Scope](https://docs.canvascope.org/chrome/uninstall.md): Remove the Scope extension from Chrome, and learn what happens to your data in the browser and in your account.
- [Lectra overview](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/overview.md): Lectra is a free iPad app for reading and marking up PDFs with Apple Pencil, keeping handwritten notebooks, scanning paper, and running Python, all in one place.
- [Install Lectra](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/install.md): Download Lectra from the App Store, decide whether to sign in, and open your first document.
- [Organize your library](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/library.md): Browse, sort, favorite, and file your documents into folders, open several at once, and get back anything you delete.
- [Bring documents into Lectra](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/import.md): Add PDFs, images, slides, and other files to your Lectra library from Files, other apps, the share sheet, drag and drop, and Scope.
- [Mark up a document](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/annotate.md): Write, highlight, erase, select, draw shapes, add images and signatures, and manage pages in any PDF or notebook.
- [Use Apple Pencil](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/apple-pencil.md): Set what squeeze and double-tap do, choose when your finger draws, and learn the finger gestures Lectra uses.
- [Add typed text](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/text.md): Type on any page with text boxes, format them, and keep the text selectable when you export.
- [Create notebooks](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/notebooks.md): Start a handwritten notebook on blank, lined, grid, dotted, or Cornell paper, and add pages as you go.
- [Scan paper documents](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/scan.md): Use your iPad's camera to turn worksheets, handouts, and notes into a PDF you can mark up and search.
- [Search your library](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/search.md): Find documents by title or by the words inside them, including your handwriting, typed notes, and scanned pages.
- [Record lectures](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/record-lectures.md): Record audio while you take notes, get a transcript on your iPad, tap your notes to hear that moment, and replay how a page was written.
- [Use Apple Intelligence in Lectra](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/apple-intelligence.md): Ask questions about a document, get page-cited answers, compare several documents, and get rename suggestions, all on your iPad.
- [Run Python](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/python.md): Run Python 3.12 on your iPad in notebooks and the terminal, with NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, and Pillow included.
- [Use Jupyter notebooks](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/jupyter-notebooks.md): Create, open, and run .ipynb notebooks on your iPad, with code, notes, charts, and data files.
- [Use the terminal](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/terminal.md): Open a shell on your iPad to manage files, run Python, use Git, and connect to a remote computer over SSH.
- [Use the code editor](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/code-editor.md): Create projects, edit code with syntax highlighting, search across files, and keep a terminal next to your code.
- [Use Git](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/git.md): Connect GitHub, clone repositories, commit changes, and push and pull from your iPad.
- [Send files between devices](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/send-between-devices.md): Move PDFs between Chrome, Lectra on your iPad, another iPad, and your Mac, and share a clipboard with your Mac.
- [Lectra for Mac](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/mac.md): Install the free Mac app that lets Lectra on your iPad see and control your Mac, send files to it, and share a clipboard with it.
- [Lectra Receiver for Chrome](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/receiver.md): Send PDFs from Chrome to Lectra on your iPad, receive pages back from your iPad, and attach Lectra PDFs on Gradescope.
- [Use Remote Desktop](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/remote-desktop.md): Open your Mac's screen on your iPad, control it with touch and a keyboard, send it files, and let an assistant carry out tasks on it.
- [Export and share](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/export-and-share.md): Share a marked-up PDF that opens anywhere, or a Lectra Document that keeps your handwriting editable. Print, export pages, and export several documents at once.
- [Backups](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/backups.md): Learn what Lectra backs up when you sign in, what stays only on your iPad, and how to get your documents back.
- [Go back to an earlier version](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/version-history.md): Use History to see earlier versions of your handwriting in a document and go back to one.
- [Settings](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/settings.md): What every Lectra setting does, from your account and backups to storage, notifications, and your app icon.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/keyboard-shortcuts.md): Use a hardware keyboard with Lectra to create documents, switch tools, zoom, turn pages, and format text.
- [Troubleshooting Lectra](https://docs.canvascope.org/lectra/troubleshooting.md): Fixes for common Lectra problems with saving, backups, files from Scope, Apple Pencil, importing, exporting, and accounts.
- [Polya overview](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/overview.md): Polya is an AI tutor at askpolya.com that teaches from your own course materials and shows the source behind every answer.
- [Get started with Polya](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/get-started.md): Sign in to Polya, add your first course, choose a study mode, and ask your first question.
- [Add a course](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/add-a-course.md): Bring a course into Polya from Canvas, from the class website, or both, so the tutor answers from your materials.
- [Ask questions and read cited answers](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/chat.md): Chat with Polya about a course, open the source behind each answer, and get help one step at a time.
- [Study modes](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/study-modes.md): Choose how much help Polya gives in each course: Open, Guided, Practice, or Review.
- [Prepare for an exam](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/study.md): Use the Study tab to map an exam's topics from your course and practice exam-style questions until each topic is solid.
- [Manage course materials](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/materials.md): See everything Polya is studying for a course, upload your own files, add a course website, check for updates, and remove a course.
- [Use Polya in ChatGPT](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/chatgpt.md): Connect Polya to ChatGPT so it can search your course materials and follow the study mode you chose for each course.
- [Use Polya in Claude](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/claude.md): Connect Polya to Claude so it can search your course materials and follow the study mode you chose for each course.
- [Privacy and data in Polya](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/privacy-and-data.md): What Polya stores, how it uses your course materials, what ChatGPT and Claude can see, and how to remove your data.
- [Troubleshoot Polya](https://docs.canvascope.org/polya/troubleshooting.md): Fix common problems with signing in, importing courses, chat, the Study tab, and the ChatGPT and Claude connectors.
- [Get help](https://docs.canvascope.org/resources/get-help.md): Contact Scope support by email, report a problem, and learn what to include so you get a faster answer.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.canvascope.org/resources/troubleshooting.md): Find fixes for common problems with the Scope extension, Lectra, Polya, and signing in.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://docs.canvascope.org/resources/faq.md): Answers to common questions about Scope, the Scope extension, Lectra, Polya, your account, and your privacy.
- [Glossary](https://docs.canvascope.org/resources/glossary.md): Definitions of the terms you see in the Scope extension, Lectra, and Polya.
- [Release notes](https://docs.canvascope.org/resources/release-notes.md): What's new in the Scope extension, Lectra, and Polya, newest first.
- [Legal](https://docs.canvascope.org/resources/legal.md): Links to the privacy policies and terms of service for the Scope extension, Lectra, and Polya.


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