Is Tasks for Canvas – now supporting Blackboard, D2L Brightspace safe?
Tasks for Canvas sends the institution hostname, platform type, and usage metrics to the developer's server roughly once every 30 days.
When the extension runs on Canvas, Blackboard, or D2L Brightspace, it reads the current institution domain and usage streak from browser storage and POSTs them as JSON to tasksforcanvas.onrender.com/analytics. Separately, task-creation and platform-visit events are sampled (10% and 0.1% respectively) and reported as short beacons to the same server. No user disclosure about this data collection is surfaced within the extension.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itBetterCampus - 2 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
BetterCampus - 2 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
2 other listings published from this account, 2.1M+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 2 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed tasks-for-canvas-%E2%80%93-now-su contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- tasksforcanvas.onrender.com
tasks-for-canvas-%E2%80%93-now-su sends data to tasksforcanvas.onrender.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.