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My agent watches my kids' classes in Canvas and built a dashboard of missing work

He has the AI logged into the Canvas parent app. It tracks each class and lists any missing assignments. He told it to ignore work missing for less than 3 days, so he does not get noise about things that are not due yet. The first version was all text, so he asked the AI to build a nicer dashboard, and it did. He says it is far better than using the Canvas app himself.

How it works

  1. The AI logs into the Canvas parent app
  2. Tracks each class
  3. Lists missing assignments, ignoring anything missing less than 3 days
  4. He asks for a visual version
  5. The AI builds a dashboard

Why it’s worth knowing

The 3 day ignore rule is the smart part: it filters out the not due yet noise that makes parents stop checking.

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Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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