Every morning at 6, Morning Bell reads your school's Canvas — due dates, grades, professor announcements — and sends you one clean email before your day starts.
Free during the pilot. First on the list, first to get the brief.
Every planner app is one more thing to open. Morning Bell works the other way: connect once, and the brief is in your inbox when you wake up — what's due today, what's due tomorrow, what actually needs you. Even on a clear day it tells you that, and honestly, "you're clear" is the best thing an email can say.
Canvas flags work as "missing" without checking whether you turned it in. Morning Bell verifies against your real submission records before it says a word — and when something can't be fully verified (like assignments you complete in an outside tool), it says that instead of guessing. Grades work the same way: not just your score, but what moved since yesterday — "ACCTG 201: −0.4% since Tuesday" — course by course, every morning.
Professors bury "the final project is optional" in paragraph four of a long announcement. Morning Bell reads the whole post, surfaces the line that affects you, and links the original so you can see it in context. No more finding out about the extension from a group chat three days later.
…rubric stays the same as the midterm presentations. The final project is optional for anyone above 80%. Office hours move to Tuesday this week only, and the study guide…
Your access token is encrypted the moment you paste it — with keys stored separately from the database, never logged, never in the app's code.
We publish the exact list of API calls we make. We can see assignments, grades, and announcements. We cannot submit, change, or post anything — the access we ask for physically can't.
Enough to compute what changed since yesterday. We are not building an archive of your academic record.
Token, data, account — immediately. No 30-day "processing." You can also revoke the token yourself in Canvas settings anytime, and we're locked out on the spot.
Your data will never be sold or shared. If Morning Bell ever costs money, it'll be a price you see and choose — never your data behind your back.
Free during the pilot. Built by a BYU-Idaho student, starting at BYU-I.
First on the list, first to get the brief.
It's a code you generate yourself in Canvas (Account → Settings → New Access Token) that lets an app read your Canvas — it is not your password, and it can't log in as you. We walk you through it with screenshots in about 60 seconds. Then: it's encrypted instantly, we're read-only (we publish every API call we make so you can check), and you hold the kill switch twice over — delete your Morning Bell account, or revoke the token in Canvas settings. Either one shuts us out immediately.
No, and not as a policy promise — as a capability fact. The access we use has no write ability. We can't submit assignments, post to discussions, message anyone, or touch a setting.
No-AI policies are about how you produce coursework. Morning Bell never touches coursework — it doesn't write, answer, solve, or submit anything. It summarizes logistics: deadlines, grade changes, what your professor announced. It's a well-organized calendar, not a writing assistant. If your syllabus language is unusually broad, ask your professor — we'd rather you be sure than guessing.
Free during the pilot, no payment info collected, ever, at signup. If pricing ever changes, you'll get clear advance notice and nothing happens without you explicitly opting in.
Every brief has an unsubscribe link — one tap stops the emails. Deleting your account takes one click and erases everything we have, immediately.
Not yet — we're starting at BYU-I to get it right on one campus first. If your school uses Canvas (the most common college LMS), join the waitlist and we'll email you when your school is live.
You can — almost nobody does, because you have to configure them yourself, they don't include grade values, they can't tell you what changed since yesterday, they flag "missing" work without checking your submissions, and they don't summarize anything. Morning Bell is what those notifications should have been: one email, already set up, already verified.