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DoreScore weights your scores the way your syllabus does. Brightspace’s own number is often just points added up, or a total your instructor hasn’t set up yet.

Your instructor’s grade is the official one. Looks off? Open the class and check its grading plan (Grading plan → Edit), or use Report a problem at the bottom of the sidebar.

Click Set up grading on the class page. Then:

• Class in the class library? Its plan is filled in for you, checked by hand against the syllabus.
• Not in it? DoreScore reads your syllabus, with AI or on your computer (choose in Settings → Syllabi), and you check the plan before it counts.
• Rather do it yourself? Type the parts and weights.

Scores are matched to the parts of the grading plan by their names.

• One score fits no part? It’s listed at the top of the class page, with a menu to choose where it goes.
• A whole kind of score in the wrong place? Edit the grading plan, or tell us so the class library’s plan gets fixed for everyone.

To change one, click any score on the class page. The change stays in DoreScore: the row says Edited by you, with Reset to go back to Brightspace’s.

To add one (a paper test, or a grade that isn’t posted yet), use Add a grade. A letter like B+ works as the score. After you add one, the next is ready to type: Quiz 1, then Quiz 2.

Open the class and look at What I need. Pick a letter, and it shows what the rest of the class takes to get it.

Yes. Try scores on the class page sets your average on what’s left in each part and shows the grade you’d end with. Saved grades don’t change.

The sidebar shows your term GPA, projected from the classes graded so far. Try letters lets you pick a letter for each class and see the GPA it makes.

To include earlier semesters, add your GPA and credits so far in Settings → GPA so far.

To-do in the sidebar lists everything due, from every class, with work you’ve turned in checked off. Add task puts your own things on the same list.

1. Open Settings → Calendars.
2. Choose Connect Google Calendar. For Apple, Outlook or another calendar, add it by its link.

Your events then show beside your due dates.

Yes. Reminders are off until you turn them on in Settings → Notifications. They come the evening before and 3 hours before:

• an assignment, quiz or discussion is due,
• an exam on your Brightspace calendar starts, or
• one of your own to-dos is due.

Before each reminder about work, DoreScore checks with Brightspace, so it won’t remind you about work you’ve already turned in, or anything you’ve checked off.

Study timer sits at the top of Brightspace. It keeps running as you move between Brightspace pages.

Use the level button at the top right of Brightspace:

• Full: the DoreScore home, your colors, and your grades all through Brightspace.
• Widget: Brightspace’s own home and colors, plus the DoreScore widget.
• Minimal: Brightspace exactly as it is, with a small ⚓ button for your grades.

Customize at the bottom of the sidebar has the themes (six Games, the four seasons, the holidays, seven everyday ones and any you make), plus colors, patterns, decorations and layout. In Widget or Minimal, it’s in the level button’s menu.

Make your own

1. Open Design in Customize.
2. Pick a background, a sidebar and an accent, then a pattern. DoreScore adjusts any color that would make words hard to read, and says what it changed.
3. Save as a theme keeps it under Yours.

Share one

Open its menu under Yours and copy its link. Anyone with DoreScore can open the link, try the theme on their Brightspace and keep it. The whole theme is in the link: nothing is stored, and your photos stay on your computer.

Hide grades at the bottom of the sidebar blurs every grade until you point at it. Click it again to show them.

Open Customize and choose Tour at the bottom.

Click him to ask about your grades, due dates or calendar, like “What’s due this week?” He answers in plain words.

If you’d rather not have him around, Hide Skipper is in his menu.

Press ⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows) on any Brightspace page. It finds assignments, grades, and any file or module in your classes’ Content.

In your browser, on your computer. There’s no account and no password. Settings → Your data deletes it all, and the privacy page has the details.

DoreScore syncs when you open Brightspace, so sign in there first. To sync right away, open the ⋮ menu at the top of the DoreScore home and choose Sync now.

Not yet. DoreScore is an extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc on a laptop or desktop.

Go to chrome://extensions and choose Remove under DoreScore. Everything it kept on your computer goes with it.

Free, always: your real grade in every class, grading plans and the class library, what you need on the rest (and on each final), Try scores and your GPA, due dates, your to-do list, Skipper’s answers about your due dates and grades, search, the built-in themes and the study timer.

Pro adds asking Skipper about your syllabus (“What’s the late policy in CHEM 1601?”, answered from that syllabus with the lines it came from), practice questions from a class’s lecture PDFs and readings (on its page), splitting an assignment into work sessions, grade alerts when a class’s letter changes, a Sunday-evening look at your week, study stats and breathing breaks in the study timer, your semesters and GPA over time (GPA & Credits), downloading your grades as a spreadsheet, grade notices even when Brightspace is closed, reminders, your Google, Apple or Outlook calendar, Gradescope scores, saving your own themes, and AI syllabus reading as often as you like (without Pro, two a semester; reading on your computer has no limit).

Everything is free for everyone until January 8, 2027. After that, new students get Pro free through their first semester. The Pro page has Free and Pro side by side.

$5.99 for a semester or $9.99 for a year (this semester and the next), paid once. Until January 8 there’s an early price, $3.99 and $6.99, and a pass bought early starts January 8. It never renews by itself, so there’s nothing to cancel. Get it on DoreScore’s Pro page (the Pro button on the DoreScore home); you pay on Stripe’s checkout page, and Pro turns on when you come back.

When Pro ends, its features pause and keep their settings, and your grades and everything free carry on as before.

On DoreScore’s Pro page, choose Already paid? Check again. Pro belongs to DoreScore on the computer you bought it on; if you reinstalled DoreScore or moved to another computer, write to hello@dorescore.com from the email you paid with.