UltraBox

A Chrome extension for the SchoolBox LMS with integrations for the Box of Books (BoB) platform.

Features

• Launcher: A search bar for quick access to news articles and classes, as well as textbooks from Box of Books.
  • You'll need to manually provide the RSS feed for your news headlines.
  • (New in 1.0.1) Search through book headings in Box of Books.
• Dark theme: Dark theme for the SchoolBox website and its pages (still a work in progress)
• News Chips: Replaces boring SchoolBox tabs in the news section with much more elegant chips and a search bar.

In progress

• Frequently viewed pages: quick access for pages and resources you commonly access, separated by your class periods.

Upcocming

• Add automatic detection for the news headlines RSS feed.
• Announcement / Post / News Item Edit history.

Manual installation (via pre-built package)

Builds for this extension are coming soon

For chrome and chromium based browsers

1. Download the latest release (or a specific version you wish to install)
2. Unzip the file
3. Open your browsers extensions page (For chrome it's chrome://extensions)
4. If not already enabled, click the toggle in the top to enable developer mode.
5. A new ribbon should appear underneath the top navigation bar. Click the "Load Unpacked" button.
6. Select the folder that was extracted earlier.

Development

Install dependencies using Bun:

# install dependencies
bun install

# build
bun run build

For development mode with file watching:

bun run dev

Load the dist/ directory as an unpacked extension in Chrome to test.

1. Open Google Chrome and go to chrome://extensions/.
2. Enable the Developer Mode toggle in the top right.
3. Click on "load unpacked" in the toolbar that appears.
4. Navigate to the dist/ folder in the repository. If you don't see one, follow the instructions above to build the extension.

License

• MIT license. Do whatever you want idrc