Academic Dashboard — Development skill for Claude Code

Academic Dashboard

A private dashboard for your **Purdue Brightspace** courses that runs on your own PC and opens in your browser at **http://localhost:4321**.

• To-do list: overdue, due today, tomorrow and this week, with a checkbox to mark things done. Submitted assignments tick themselves.
• Calendar (month or week): every due date, color-coded by course, plus when quizzes open
• Exams stand out in gold: exam quizzes, and exam dates your instructors post in announcements, are found automatically
• Your own tasks: homework on other sites (WebAssign, Achieve…), exams, anything Brightspace doesn't track
• Announcements tab with unread counts
• Windows notifications: when your PC starts and every 3 hours, one notification lists what's due today and early tomorrow morning

It refreshes from Brightspace **every 3 hours and at midnight** by itself. Everything stays on your computer; the dashboard never sees your password.

**Windows 10/11 only.** Works in any browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox).

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Install with an AI agent (easiest, ~10 minutes)

Works with **Claude Code** (https://claude.com/claude-code) or **OpenAI Codex** (app, CLI or IDE extension). Either needs an account with that company.

1. Download academic-dashboard.zip from the latest release, right-click it → Extract All, and put the folder somewhere like your Desktop.
2. Open the folder in your agent:
   • Claude Code desktop app / Codex app: start a new session in the academic-dashboard folder.
   • Terminal: open Command Prompt, cd into the folder, then run claude or codex.
3. Type:

   Set up the academic dashboard

The agent follows the step-by-step instructions in `AGENTS.md`. It installs Node.js if you don't have it, installs and self-tests the dashboard, connects your Brightspace account, sets it to start with Windows, and opens it.

**What you do yourself:**

• Approve the commands it asks to run. Codex ask