Sprig helps your child stay on top of what’s due and hand in better work — without you having to ask whether it’s done.
It works with Canvas only. If your child’s school uses a different system, Sprig can’t see their assignments and there’s nothing here for you yet.
It reminds them days ahead, so work starts early instead of at 11pm. Then it reads their draft and asks questions that make it stronger. It never supplies the answer, so what improves is their understanding, not just the page.
There is no parent login yet. Sprig accounts belong to students. You can’t sign in and look at your child’s work, and we’d rather tell you that on the first screen than let you find out later.
A parent view may come. It hasn’t yet, partly because the first question to settle isn’t technical: a student who knows a parent reads their drafts uses a tool like this differently, or stops using it. We’d rather get that right than ship it fast.
Before deciding, read how Sprig works, the academic-integrity boundaries, and the plain-language privacy summary. About Sprig Study explains its current beta and Canvas-only scope.
Your child pastes in the calendar link Canvas already gives them. Sprig reads their due dates from it and reminds them — two days before, the day before, and the morning of.
They can also submit a draft, a photo of handwritten work, or a document, and get up to three questions back about it. The aim is straightforward: fewer things forgotten, and work that gets a second look before it’s handed in.
This is the part worth being precise about, because “AI homework helper” can mean almost anything. Sprig will not state an answer, rewrite a sentence, work through the steps on your child’s own numbers, or confirm whether a guess is right. If asked directly, it declines and reframes. If asked again, it declines again.
What it does instead is ask. “You’ve only accounted for the iron ore’s weight — what happens to the coal?” The student still has to do the thinking; they just find out where the gap is while there’s still time to fix it.
Each question allows five follow-ups. After that Sprig stops and says to go change the work — a conversation that runs longer than that has usually stopped being about understanding.
One link: the private calendar feed under Canvas → Calendar → Calendar Feed. It is read-only by construction. Sprig cannot submit work, change a grade, or edit anything in Canvas — not as a policy, but because that link does not carry the ability to.
Drafts submitted for feedback, and the feedback itself, are deleted two weeks after the work is over — two quiet weeks with no new draft and no questions, or two weeks after the assignment is marked done, whichever comes first. Your child can delete their whole account at any time, from the menu, and everything goes with it.
If your child chooses to report a problem or share an idea, they can write a short note and optionally add up to three screenshots or photos. Those are read only inside Sprig’s protected Admin area, are never sent to Anthropic or included in email, and are removed 30 days after submission. Sprig never captures a screen automatically.
Ask them to open Sprig and link their Canvas calendar. It takes about two minutes and needs no password — just an email address they can check.
Sprig is being tested with a small number of families and is free. If that changes, nobody gets charged without being asked first.