An intelligent, feature-rich Chrome extension designed to help students at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) never miss another deadline. This tool goes beyond simple reminders, offering a robust, automated system with progressive notifications, auto-login, and custom event management.
- 🎯 Smart Progressive Notifications: Don't just get one reminder. This extension sends increasingly urgent notifications as a deadline approaches:
1 Week Before:Time to plan.5 & 3 Days Before:Time to get serious.24 & 1 Hour Before:Critical final warnings.After Timeout:Motivational messages for recovery and support.
- 🛡️ Resilient Auto-Login & Refresh: Intelligently handles Moodle's session timeouts and login redirects.
- Auto-Restores Sessions: Automatically uses saved cookies to keep you logged in.
- Auto-Fills Credentials (Optional & Secure): Can securely store and fill your username and password for a seamless login experience.
- Tab Explosion Prevention: Built with robust mutex locks and emergency cleanup logic to prevent the infamous Moodle redirect loop from overwhelming your browser.
- ➕ Custom Activity Management: Your academic life isn't just on Moodle. Add your own custom events, assignments, or personal deadlines directly into the tracker.
- 📊 Informative Dashboard: A clean and modern popup UI that gives you a quick overview of your academic schedule:
- Quick stats on urgent, total, custom, and completed tasks.
- Tabbed view for "Upcoming" and "Completed" activities.
- A dedicated section to highlight your most urgent tasks.
- 🚨 Dynamic Urgency System: Activities are automatically color-coded and badged based on their urgency (
Overdue,Critical,High,Medium,Low), so you always know what to focus on first. - ⚙️ Granular Control: A comprehensive settings panel allows you to customize every aspect of the extension, from notification timings to auto-login behavior.
As this is a browser extension, the requirements are very simple.
- 🌐 A Chromium-based Web Browser:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Brave Browser
- Or any other browser that supports Chrome Extensions.
You do not need to install Python, Node.js, or any other software to use this extension.
- Download: Download this project as a ZIP file and extract it to a local folder.
- Open Chrome Extensions: Open Chrome and navigate to
chrome://extensions. - Enable Developer Mode: Turn on the "Developer mode" toggle in the top-right corner.
- Load Unpacked: Click on "Load unpacked" and select the folder where you extracted the files.
- Done! The "OUSL Activity Tracker" extension is now installed. Pin it to your toolbar for easy access.
- Initial Login: After installing, log in to the OUSL Moodle Portal one time. The extension will automatically save your session cookies.
- Background Operation: The extension will now work silently in the background, periodically checking for new activities and sending you notifications.
- View Your Schedule: Click the extension icon in your toolbar at any time to see your full list of upcoming and completed activities.
- Add Custom Events: Click the "➕ Add Event" button to add personal deadlines.
- Customize Settings: Click the "⚙️ Settings" button to configure notifications and auto-login to your liking.
If you find this tool useful, please consider making a small donation to support future development. Thank you!
- Core: Vanilla JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3
- APIs: Chrome Extension Manifest V3 (
storage,notifications,alarms,cookies,webNavigation) - Architecture: Resilient background service worker with a separate UI controller.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.