Junox Your course, explained.
Settings are saved automatically.
Getting started
- Add your Canvas address (section 1)
- Connect an AI provider and pick a model (section 2)
- Open a Canvas lesson — the sidebar appears on the right
1 Your Canvas site
The extension only runs on the Canvas addresses you add here. Chrome will ask you to allow access to each one.
Tip: copy the address from your browser while you're on Canvas — everything before /courses.
Most schools use .
After adding a site, reload any Canvas tabs that were already open. You can also click the extension's toolbar button on any page to open the sidebar once.
Embedded lesson viewers
Some courses show lessons inside an embedded viewer from another site (for example a CertMaster product viewer). Junox only runs inside those viewers after you allow them from the sidebar's Explain tab, and only to pass text you highlight to the Explain tab.
2 AI provider
🔒 When using Ollama, study content is sent to your configured local Ollama server.
Models are discovered from your Ollama install. Don't have one? See the README section "Ollama" (e.g. ollama pull llama3.2).
☁️ When using a cloud provider, extracted study content is transmitted to that provider for processing. Their privacy policy and pricing apply.
How is my API key protected?
- The key is stored in the extension's private storage on this computer, separate from other settings. It is never given to Canvas pages or to the extension's page script — only the background worker uses it, and only to call the address above.
- It is not encrypted at rest: anyone (or any malware) with access to your computer account could read it from Chrome's profile folder. Untick "Remember" to keep it in memory only until the browser closes.
- Safest option: use a spending-limited key, or run a small local proxy (e.g. LiteLLM) that holds the key, and choose "My local proxy" above. See README → Security.
3 Study preferences
4 Data & privacy
- Never collected: passwords, cookies, session tokens, form answers, grades, inbox messages, or unrelated browsing.
- Before sending, the extension removes Canvas navigation and attempts to redact your name, email addresses, phone numbers and student IDs.
- Quiz/exam pages are detected and never analyzed automatically.
Caching avoids paying twice for the same page.
5 Advanced
Longer lessons are split into parts and combined. Lower this on slower computers.
About Junox
JUNOX: Junior Understanding Neural Optimization Explainer.
Junox is a learning companion that sits beside your Canvas lessons like a smart friend who happens to be a great tutor. It explains, clarifies, quizzes you and helps you reason through ideas. It will never complete or submit graded quizzes, exams or assignments for you.