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Penn State students: turn your Canvas syllabus into Apple Calendar

Stop manually copying semester deadlines from Penn State's Canvas at psu.instructure.com. Paste your syllabus or drop in your Canvas iCal URL — every exam, assignment, and quiz syncs to Apple Calendar on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in seconds.

Paste your Penn State Canvas syllabus →
How it works

Three steps. Done.

No account. No setup. Two ways to import — paste the syllabus text or use your Penn State Canvas iCal URL. Either way it ends up in Apple Calendar.

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Grab your Penn State Canvas content

Log into Canvas at psu.instructure.com with your Penn State Access Account. Copy the syllabus text from your course page, or go to Calendar → "Calendar Feed" in the lower right to copy your iCal URL.

Paste and parse

Drop the syllabus text or iCal URL into SyllabusAI. Every exam, assignment, quiz, and due date gets pulled out and tagged in seconds.

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Subscribe in Apple Calendar

Download the .ics file, then open Apple Calendar → File → New Calendar Subscription and paste the URL. Shows up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac instantly.

Two ways to import

Pick whichever takes less effort.

Both paths end up at the same place — your Penn State Canvas deadlines in Apple Calendar, synced across every Apple device.

📄 Paste syllabus text

Open your course at psu.instructure.com, go to the Syllabus tab, select all and copy. Paste it into SyllabusAI. Works with table-format and narrative-format syllabi.

Paste text →

🔗 Use Canvas iCal URL

In psu.instructure.com, open Calendar. Look in the lower-right corner of any Calendar view (Month, Week, or Agenda) — you'll see a "Calendar Feed" link. Copy that ICS URL, paste it here, then subscribe in Apple Calendar.

https://psu.instructure.com/feeds/calendars/user_XXXX.ics
FAQ

Penn State Canvas + Apple Calendar questions.

Straight answers. No fluff.

Does this work with Penn State's Canvas at psu.instructure.com?

Yes. Two ways: paste the syllabus text you copied out of psu.instructure.com, or grab your Canvas iCal feed URL from the Calendar section and paste that instead. Either way you get a .ics file you subscribe to in Apple Calendar — and it shows up on every Apple device.

I'm a Penn State World Campus student — does the ICS export work for online courses too?

Yes. World Campus courses live in the same Canvas instance at psu.instructure.com, so the iCal feed URL works exactly the same way. Every dated event — discussion boards, exams, project submissions — gets a VEVENT entry in the ICS file and syncs to Apple Calendar on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Where do I find my Canvas calendar feed URL?

In Canvas, go to Calendar. In the lower-right of any Calendar view (Month, Week, or Agenda), you'll see a "Calendar Feed" link. Click it and copy the ICS URL. Paste that URL into SyllabusAI.

How do I subscribe to a calendar in Apple Calendar?

On Mac: open Apple Calendar, go to File → New Calendar Subscription, paste the .ics URL, hit Subscribe. On iPhone or iPad: Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar, then paste the URL.

Will my iPhone sync the calendar automatically?

Yes. Subscribe once on any Apple device and iCloud pushes it to all of them. Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac all show the same Penn State deadlines without any extra steps.

Is this free?

Yes — free to start, no credit card. The free plan includes 3 syllabus parses, 5 Google Calendar syncs, and 25 AI study queries every rolling 30 days, which covers a typical semester setup. Power users can upgrade to Pro at $6.99/month for unlimited parsing and syncs. Apple Calendar itself is free and built into every Apple device.

Is my Canvas syllabus stored anywhere?

No. Your syllabus text is processed to extract dates and events, then discarded. We don't store, log, or sell your content.

Get started

Penn State Canvas syllabus in. Apple Calendar out.

Takes about 10 seconds. No account, no setup. Every semester deadline on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Paste your Penn State Canvas syllabus →
Prefer a different calendar? Penn State Canvas → Google Calendar Canvas → Outlook Calendar Canvas → .ics file