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NextStep Workspace
Try NextStep without leaving Canvas.
NextStep Workspace is a desktop app that runs your school’s Canvas beside an AI assistant that works on it with you. Grading passes, rubric feedback, deadline roundups, and course questions get handled next to the LMS you already use, not instead of it.
Free for macOS and Windows. Sign in to Canvas the way you always do.
Demo of the NextStep Workspace desktop app: assistant in the middle column with a task list, school Canvas gradebook on the right, drafts waiting for instructor approval.
NextStep Workspace
Grade argument essays
ENGL 101
Grade the argument essays against my rubric and draft feedback. Don’t post anything.
On it. Working through 12 submissions with your rubric now. Scores and comments stay drafts until you approve them.
Gradebook
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Student Name | Classical Argument EssayOut of 100 Manual | Midterm QuizOut of 50 | Discussion 4Out of 20 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avery Kim akim24 | 94 | 46 | 18 | 93.5% |
| Ben Ortega bortega | 87 | 42 | 17 | 85.9% |
| Maya Chen mchen19 | 48 | 19 | 92.9% | |
| Jordan Ellis jellis | 40 | 16 | 82.4% | |
| Priya Natarajan pnatarajan | 45 | 18 | 89.4% | |
| Sam Whitfield swhitfield | 38 | 15 | 77.1% |
An assistant that does the clicking
Ask in plain language. The assistant reads your courses and works Canvas alongside you, drafting feedback, filling in grades, and rounding up deadlines. You review everything it does.
NextStep, before the switch
Workspace is the NextStep experience on top of the LMS you already use. When your school is ready for the full platform, the move is ours to earn.
How a pass works
You direct. It does the busy work.
01
Ask
“Grade the argument essays against my rubric and draft feedback.” Plain language, straight into the composer.
02
Watch it work
The assistant opens the gradebook, reads submissions against your rubric, and works through a visible task list in your Canvas, right beside you.
03
Review and post
Every score and comment waits in a review queue. Accept, edit, or reject; the assistant posts only what you approve.
Same privacy guarantees
The assistant runs on NextStep inference, not someone else's API.
Everything the assistant reads and writes runs through our own inference, inside NVIDIA Confidential Computing. That enclave is locked down far enough that even we can’t see the responses. Your courses never train anyone’s models.
Read the Trust CenterStart with Workspace. Grow into the LMS.
Instructors use Workspace on Canvas today. Schools that want the full stack, tutoring, early intervention, and isolated infrastructure, talk to us about NextStep LMS.