The email Canvas never sends.

Canvas reports what changed — a grade posted, a comment added. It never reports what is still outstanding, and it never emails a parent about missing work; no such notification exists, for any role. ByBedtime reads your child's Canvas every evening and sends the one email that says what's still out — or that nothing is.

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ByBedtime Nothing needs you tonight Yesterday

ByBedtime

to you · tonight, 9:45 PM

3 things tonight

Leo · 3 needing attention, 2 due tonight

Algebra 1

Unit 4 practice set

due 11:59 pm tonight

Biology

Lab write-up: cell energy

due 11:59 pm tonight · Canvas cannot confirm this one was turned in

English 2

Reading log, week 3

due Aug 21

Also outstanding: 3 items ByBedtime is not counting tonight (no points, no online submission).

Looking ahead

Tomorrow: 1 item due, 45 points

The nightly interrogation

"Do you have homework?" "No."

You"Anything due tomorrow?"

Them"I did it at school."

You"What about the essay?"

Them"That's not due yet."

It was due Monday.

The school portal knows the truth. But getting it out means logging in through the parent site, opening six classes one at a time, decoding each teacher's system, and doing it all again tomorrow. It's a nightly checking job you never applied for. So it gets skipped, and skipped, and then it's report card week.

ByBedtime does the checking. You get the conversation back, with the list in your hand instead of a hunch.

Why small things aren't small

A zero is loud in September. In April, it's permanent.

A missing assignment found tonight is a ten minute fix. Found in November, it's a grade already bent out of shape. And grades don't stay in their semester. A GPA is one average that starts counting the first week of ninth grade. Every zero stays in the math for four years, long after the class is forgotten.

Colleges read that one number next to the test scores. The families who stay ahead of it aren't the ones who check the portal hardest. They're the ones who find out while it's still fixable.

You can't fix the zero you find out about in November.

Cumulative GPA at the end of senior year

One semester. Two futures.

Caught that night 0.00

One semester, two futures. Caught that night, or found in November. Illustrative scenario: one rescued semester averaged over four years.

How it works

Five minutes to set up. Then it just keeps watch.

Step one

Connect your parent access

Use the school parent account you already have. You create a read-only access key in your own settings. We never ask for your school password, and you can revoke the key any time, on your side.

Step two

We take the baseline, quietly

The first sync maps every class and assignment without sending a single alert. You won't get a "47 new notifications" avalanche. Your history is context, not a crisis.

Step three

Use the verified dashboard

Scheduled checks update one calm dashboard with what is newly missing, due tomorrow, resolved, or uncertain. It always shows when Canvas was last verified. Email delivery is live: the nightly brief sends at 9:45 pm during the school year.

House rules

Built by a parent. Run like a promise.

ByBedtime started as one Orlando dad's monitor after a semester of surprises. It grew into a product with the same promises it started with:

Never your school password.

You connect with a revocable key from your own parent account. It can only read assignment information. There is no password box on our site, and there never will be.

Read-only, always.

We can't submit, change, message, or touch anything in your school's systems. We look, we report, that's the whole job.

We don't even need your kid's name.

Students appear as the nickname you choose. No ads, no data sales, no profiles. Ever. Delete your account and it's genuinely deleted.

No false "all clear." Ever.

The dashboard shows when we last verified. If the school's system won't answer us, we say so plainly. We will never guess that everything's fine.

A safety net, not a surveillance camera.

We watch the work, not the kid. Families can review the same dashboard with their student. It turns "did you do it?" into "the list says one thing left."

But the school already has an app…

The portal shows you everything. That's the problem.

District portals are fine at being databases. What they don't do is the parent's actual job: noticing what changed, deciding what matters tonight, and confirming when it's resolved.

The nightly question	School portal	ByBedtime
"What's due tomorrow?"	Open every class and look	One dashboard view
"Is anything newly missing?"	Compare against your memory	Compared at each scheduled check
"Did they turn it in?"	Check again until it changes	Resolved after a verified check
"Am I seeing everything?"	Silence looks the same as fine	Dashboard timestamps the last check
Email notifications	Only when something changes — never for work still outstanding	One email each evening at 9:45 pm

First day of school, on our own son's account

"Completed" is not the same as "submitted."

One screen filed a 25-point assignment under a blue checkmark: "Show 1 completed item." The grades table, in the same class, showed it was never turned in. Both screens were telling the truth; they were answering different questions.

A Canvas module row for Photography Technician S1 26-27 with a chevron and the blue link text "Show 1 completed item". — The module view: a blue checkmark and "Show 1 completed item": where **completed** means a student marked the item done, not that anything was submitted.

Canvas grades table. Row one, 08.11 CW Upload Cert / Leave a Comment, due Aug 11 by 11:59pm, with an empty Submitted column and a dash for a score. Row two, 08.11 CW Getting to Know You, due Aug 17, submitted Aug 11 at 9:43am, with a score out of 50. — Canvas's grades table, same class, same day: for the top assignment, **Submitted is blank** and the score is a dash: while the row below it, genuinely turned in at **9:43am**, shows what submitted actually looks like.

Neither screen is wrong. The checkmark is a completion signal: a student can mark a module item done as they work through it, and Canvas records that they did. Marking an item done does not create a submission, and the grades table counts only submissions. Two honest screens answering two different questions, and the reassuring one is the one you see first at the end of a long day.

ByBedtime doesn't read the screens. It reads the submission record underneath them, and that night's brief listed the assignment plainly: Do tonight: Unsubmitted, due 11:59pm. While there was still time to do something about it.

One email a night, around 9:45, listing what is actually outstanding: as the submission record tells it.

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Fair questions

Asked by every parent we've talked to.

Is this spying on my kid?

We think of it as the opposite. ByBedtime watches assignments, not your child. no messages, no browsing, no location, nothing on their devices. It sees exactly what your district already shows you as a parent, minus the nightly clicking.

We suggest telling your student it's running, and reviewing the dashboard together. It tends to lower the temperature: the conversation stops being an interrogation and starts being a list.

Which schools does it work with?

Launch is for families in districts using the Canvas learning platform with parent observer access, starting with Orange County Public Schools, where ByBedtime was born. More Canvas districts follow as we verify each one properly.

Do you show grades?

We show assignment status: due, missing, submitted, and graded. That is where problems are still fixable. Many districts keep the official gradebook in a separate system, and teachers post on their own schedules. So we'll never pretend to be the report card; we're the early warning system that helps the report card turn out fine.

What do you do with our data?

Build your assignment dashboard and, when email delivery is enabled, send you briefs. That's it. No ads, no selling, no profiles, and your kid can be a nickname. Notification contents aren't kept in our logs. Delete your account and the data goes with it, promptly and permanently.

What if the school's system goes down or blocks access?

Then you'll know that, too. The dashboard carries a "last verified" timestamp, and if we can't check, the dashboard says so in plain words. Silence pretending to be good news is the one thing we refuse to ship.

Is ByBedtime affiliated with my school district?

No. ByBedtime is an independent service built by a parent, not affiliated with or endorsed by any school district or learning platform. It works with the parent access your district already provides you.

Guides & answers

The questions that probably brought you here.

Written for parents, not for search engines. No signup required to read any of them.

Canvas Parent app not showing missing assignments?

The four reasons work slips through the app, and how to check by hand tonight.

Canvas pairing code not working?

Why codes expire, die after one use, and care about capital letters, and how to get a fresh one.

The Canvas data breach

What was exposed, what was not, and how to audit and revoke access to your own account.

ADHD teen missing assignments?

Why the work gets done but not turned in, and what actually helps at home.

ByBedtime vs the Canvas Parent app

An honest side-by-side of the viewer and the watchdog, and why most families use both.

Who's behind this

A parent who got tired of finding out in November. The story, and the house rules.

Your district

Every county names these things differently.

Canvas is Canvas, but your district almost certainly calls it something else, keeps grades somewhere else, and hands out pairing codes its own way. These guides use the words your schools actually use.