For parents of Canvas students

Stop asking
“do you have homework?”

You already know how that conversation goes. Schoolnight reads your child's Canvas account and emails you one plain summary a day — what's done, what's missing, what's due next. You both look at the same list. The arguing has nothing left to be about.

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Tonight, 9:42 PM

2h 17m

until three assignments are counted late — and nobody in the house knows yet.

Turned in

Missing

This week

The whole product

Three questions, answered before you walk in the door

Canvas has the answers, buried across seven course pages, three menus and a gradebook that doesn't tell you what's coming. Schoolnight pulls them into one place and sorts every assignment into exactly one of three piles.

Question one

What's actually done?

Submitted, graded, and scored — pulled straight from the gradebook. Not what they told you at dinner. You stop having to decide whether to believe them, which is most of the fight.

Question two

What's missing?

Every past-due assignment across every class, with the points still on the table. Caught the morning after, while it's a ten-minute fix — not in a progress report six weeks later when it's a grade.

Question three

What's coming?

The next seven days, plus the long project deadlines teachers bury inside an assignment description where Canvas never flags them. The Sunday-night panic is usually one of those.

What you get

One email. One board. Nothing to log into.

The email lands at whatever time you choose — most parents pick mid-afternoon, so there's time to fix something before dinner. The board is the same information, live, for when your student wants to tick things off themselves.

Sample — fictional student

Inbox — Schoolnight daily

Sam’s homework — Tuesday, Sep 22 · 3 missing

to you and one other · 1:30 PM

Needs attention

3 past due · 37 points at risk

Due today

Algebra 1Lesson 2.3 — Practice Set Marked completed · not in Canvas yet 11:59 PM

With the teacher, not yet graded

Spanish 2Vocabulary quiz — Lección 3 Submitted Sep 18 waiting

Missing and past due

Lang ArtsEnd of Unit Writing — Body ParagraphMissing in Canvas Sep 18
4 days

Intro ArtsSending an Email Sep 18
4 days

Coming up this week

World HistoryResearch Project — Thesis StatementFrom teacher’s timeline Sep 25

Points this week

Graded and counted10 pts

Waiting on a grade1 item

Grades so far

Algebra 1 Honors91%

Lang Arts 3 Advanced74%

Spanish 261%

The daily email. Skimmable in fifteen seconds on a phone. Color-coded so the thing that needs you is the thing you see first.

Sample — fictional student

schoolnight.app / sam

Sam’s Homework Board

Tuesday, Sep 22

UPDATED
1:30 PM

Lakeview Middle SchoolGrade 8 · Ravens

10 pts
this week Solid week Points land when Canvas shows work graded. 1/5 graded
20% rate

Graded

Submitted

Missing

Next 7 days

Past due1

4 days late End of Unit Writing — Body Paragraph Lang Arts · 12 pts · online Start

Due today1

Due today Lesson 2.3 — Practice Set Algebra 1 · 10 pts · on paper Complete and hand in

Coming up this week1

In 3 days Research Project — Thesis Statement World History · 25 pts · online Start

Done2

Sep 17 Chapter 4 reading response Lang Arts · 15 pts · online · 14 / 15+10 pts · on time Completed

Sep 18 Vocabulary quiz — Lección 3 Spanish 2 · 15 pts · online · Waiting for a grade Submitted

The live board. Grouped by when it is due, with one button per row that says exactly what to do and where. Shared link, no account for them to forget the password to.

Why parents actually stay

The list becomes the bad guy, so you don't have to

Most homework arguments aren't about homework. They're about a parent who can't see and a kid who feels accused. Put the same facts in front of both of you and the accusation disappears — there's just a list, and it's either done or it isn't.

Before

“Do you have homework?” “No.” “Are you sure?” “Why didn't you tell me about this project?” “I'm not going to keep checking up on you.”

After

“Two things on the list tonight — want to knock them out before dinner?” “The history thesis is Friday. Plan?” “Nice — board's clear. Go.”

Setup

Ten minutes once, then it runs itself

There is nothing to install, and nothing for your student to do differently. After setup you never open the app again unless you want to — the email comes to you.

STEP 01

Connect Canvas

Sign in through your school district's own Canvas login. Schoolnight gets read-only access to your own child's coursework — it can never submit, message a teacher, or change a grade.

STEP 02

Pick your time and people

Choose when the email arrives and who gets it — you, a co-parent, a grandparent, your student. Set how far back missing work should keep showing before it ages off the list.

STEP 03

Read it in fifteen seconds

It arrives every school day. On the days everything is clear it says so in one line, and you get on with your evening.

Pricing

Less than one tutoring hour, for the whole year

Start free and keep it free if the weekly digest is enough. No card to begin, and cancelling takes one click.

Free

One student, one summary a week. Enough to catch the big misses.

1 student
Weekly email summary
Missing-work list

Most families

Family

$7 / month

Every school day, up to four students, everyone who needs to know.

Up to 4 students
Daily email, your chosen time
Live shared board
Hidden project deadlines surfaced
Up to 6 recipients

School

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District-wide rollout, with the data agreement your board requires.

Every family in the district
Signed data-sharing agreement
Counsellor dashboards

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Questions

The things parents ask first

Is this spying on my kid?

It shows you exactly what Canvas already shows you as a parent observer — assignments, due dates and grades. It cannot read messages, see anything outside their coursework, or touch anything on their phone. Most families set it up together and put the board where the student can see it too, which is the point: the same list, visible to everyone, instead of one person checking up on the other.

What happens to my child's data?

Access is read-only and scoped to coursework. Records are deleted on a short retention window — we don't need a history to send you today's summary. We don't sell data, build advertising profiles, or share anything with third parties. You can disconnect and delete everything from settings at any time.

Does my school district have to approve it?

Yes, and we think that's right. Canvas belongs to your district, and student records are protected by federal and state law — so we connect district by district, with the school's authorization and a data agreement in place. If yours isn't connected yet, sign up anyway: we'll tell you where your district stands and let you know when it's live.

My child says they'll just stop using Canvas.

They can't, really — teachers post and collect there, so the record exists whether anyone looks at it or not. What changes is that the record stops being a surprise you discover at report-card time.

What if everything's fine that day?

The email says so, in one line, and you close it. It never pads a clear day with filler to look busy — that's how a daily email turns into one you stop opening.

Will this work for a student who isn't struggling?

Plenty of families use it for the opposite reason: to stop hovering over a kid who's doing fine. Seeing the list clear night after night is what lets you back off with confidence rather than on faith.

Tonight could just be dinner

Set it up once this week. By Friday you'll have stopped asking the question entirely.

Stop asking“do you have homework?”