A deadline is not a schedule.
Due dates do not account for classes, work, appointments, or personal commitments.
Tardy features
The details behind a plan you can actually follow.
Tardy combines coursework intelligence, workload context, calendar availability, and schedule-aware tools so the next step is always clearer.
The planning gap
Canvas tells you when work is due. It does not tell you when to do it.
Calendars still need manual planning.
Students must translate every assignment into time blocks and decide what comes first.
Long work is easy to underestimate.
A complete task list can still leave you wondering what to start tonight.
Generic estimates fit no one.
The same essay takes different students very different amounts of time, and most tools never learn the difference.
Tardy turns scattered academic information into one prioritized, time-aware plan.
The complete flow
From scattered coursework to a day you can follow.
Four steps connect what is due with the time you actually have.
Connect your coursework
Paste your Canvas calendar link—Canvas gives every student one under Calendar → Calendar Feed—and Tardy imports your assignments and deadlines. No password needed, and it works at every Canvas school.
Bring in your calendar
Connect Apple Calendar or Google Calendar, or import a compatible calendar file. Tardy checks when you are already busy before it plans study time.
Let Tardy organize the work
Tardy weighs deadlines and course importance, then estimates how much focused work each task may need—using what it has learned about your own pace.
Follow My Day
Generate a practical plan around classes, work, and personal commitments. Study blocks appear on your calendar so the calendar remains the schedule source of truth.
CourseworkCanvas calendarWhat needs attention
TardyPriority + available timeWhat fits and when
Your scheduleMy Day + calendarA plan you can follow
Available now, at every Canvas school
One planner, grounded in the work and time you already have.
Everything in this section works with just your Canvas calendar link—no school sign-off needed. Each part contributes to one job: building a realistic academic plan.
Coursework intelligence
Your deadlines, imported and prioritized.
Tardy imports assignments from your Canvas calendar and orders them by deadline, course importance, and estimated effort—so you always know what deserves attention first.
- Automatic import from your Canvas calendar link
- Priority ordering by deadline, importance, and effort
- Course inclusion controls
- High, normal, and low course importance
- Locally cached for offline reference
Duration learning
A planner that learns how long work takes you.
Tardy tracks how long your work really takes and learns your pace—per course and per type of task—then sizes future study blocks with your numbers instead of generic guesses.
- Learns per course and per assignment type
- Estimates improve as you complete work
- Sensible defaults for brand-new courses
- Your pace history stays in your account
Workload context
Go beyond a due date.
Tardy reads each assignment’s details and deadline alongside your course priorities to estimate effort and help decide what deserves attention first.
- Plain-language assignment summaries
- Importance and priority analysis
- Estimated focused work time
- Overdue-work handling
Calendar-aware planning
A plan that knows when you are busy.
Tardy combines assignments, calendar events, work schedules, and saved preferences into a practical timeline.
- Smart planning with an on-device fallback
- Fixed-event conflict protection
- Overdue-first planning and carryover
- Preferences such as avoiding homework on weekends
- Calendar synchronization, summaries, and deadline alerts
Grounded chat
Chat with a planner that can update your schedule.
Ask what is due, create a reminder, schedule a study block, or move an event. Tardy uses your assignments, calendar, and saved preferences instead of answering from a blank chat.
“What should I work on tonight?”“Move my essay block to Thursday.”“Remind me to email my professor tomorrow.”“Do not schedule homework on weekends.”
Tardy does not submit assignments or change grades. Chat responses and fresh synchronization require a network connection.
Syllabus & schedule scanner
Scan the syllabus once. Stop searching through it all semester.
Paste text or use a PDF to extract exam dates, office hours, attendance rules, late-work policies, and professor contact information—including dates that never make it into the Canvas calendar.
- Exam and office-hour extraction
- Attendance and late-work policies
- Instructor information
- Class-schedule scanning to map lecture and lab times
- Review recognized exams before adding them to assignments and the calendar
Requires your school’s approval
Full Canvas access: everything the calendar can’t see. Requires your school
Canvas shares its deeper data only through an official integration that each school’s Canvas administrators review and issue. Where a school approves Tardy, we enable these features for its students.
Assignments the calendar misses
Undated work, ungraded activities, and anything absent from the Canvas to-do list, surfaced before it surprises you.
Points and grade impact
Point values and grading weights, so priorities reflect what each task is actually worth.
Submission awareness
Work you have already submitted checks itself off—no manual cleanup.
Richer course detail
Deeper course metadata that sharpens estimates, summaries, and planning.
Approval is a school decision—and it starts with students asking.
Raise your hand for your schoolWhy Tardy
More than a to-do list. More practical than a blank calendar.
Traditional to-do list
Stores the work.
- Tasks and due dates
- You still decide when to work
- No awareness of available time
Calendar
Shows the time.
- Events and availability
- Manual assignment entry
- You still prioritize everything
Tardy
Turns both into a plan.
- Connects coursework and calendar context
- Sizes work to your pace and estimates effort
- Creates study blocks around commitments
- Adjusts through chat and calendar actions
Privacy and trust
Built around your schedule, not around selling your attention.
Tardy uses the access you choose to provide so it can organize coursework and update your schedule. The app does not contain third-party service credentials, and this website does not use advertising trackers.
Read the full privacy policyYour Canvas password stays yours
Sign in with Apple supports accounts. Canvas connects through a read-only calendar link—Tardy never asks you to sign in to Canvas.
Permission-based calendar access
Calendar access is used to read availability and create or update events requested by the student.
Protected assistant access
Assistant requests go through Tardy’s backend, so third-party service credentials are not shipped inside the app.
Your connections stay optional
Supported services can be disconnected, while reminders and deadline notifications are scheduled locally.
Worth knowing
Coursework import: the Canvas calendar only lists work that has a due date, and a few item types—like ungraded quizzes and discussions—never appear in it. Those can be added in seconds by hand, and a school-approved connection brings them in automatically.
Time estimates: estimates are planning aids, not guarantees. They start from your assignment details and get more accurate as Tardy learns how long work actually takes you—and you can always adjust them yourself.
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