Home Access Center says 92%. Canvas says three assignments are missing — in the category that decides the whole grade. Neither one tells you both, so you find out at the report card, when it's too late to fix it. Know Before Zero checks both, every day, and tells you what actually matters — while there's still time to do something about it.
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The problem
One website shows the real grade, but not what's missing. The other shows what's missing, but not the real grade. No single place shows you both.
How it works
Your Home Access Center login, and your Canvas parent account. You already have both — nothing new to ask the school for.
Grades from Home Access Center. Missing and late homework from Canvas. We match them up, class by class, and count them the way your school counts them.
A weekly status for every kid, and a note the night before something's due. Quiet weeks stay quiet.
What actually arrives
This is a real report from the product — the same kind you'd get. The student isn't real, because a real kid's grades are nobody else's business.
Biology is the problem: the course average is 68%, and a 100-point Cell Transport Lab Report is sitting missing in a category that counts for 100% of the grade. A 50-point World Geography case study is also missing in a 100%-weight category. Everything else is at 84% or above.
| Course | What | Points | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology Adv S1 | Cell Transport Lab Report — marked missing, due 2026-09-08 | 100 | Assessment of Learning carries 100% of the Biology grade, which is already 68%. This is the single largest point total at stake. |
| World Geography S1 | Migration Case Study — marked missing, due 2026-09-05 | 50 | Assessment of Learning carries 100% of the World Geography grade (currently 77%). |
Excerpt. The full report also walks every course one line at a time, and plans the rest of the week around the evenings that are actually free.
The note your kid actually reads
District tools email students in the district's voice. Teenagers archive that unread. Know Before Zero drafts the note in a tone you set once, so it reads like it came from you — because it did.
Hey — quick look before Sunday.
Biology test Thursday, and the review notes are still untouched. Twenty minutes tonight beats an hour Wednesday.
Everything else is handled — turned in the algebra set early. Nice.
— DadYou write the greeting, the sign-off, and the tone once. Every note after that is generated from real data and sent in your name — never invented, never generic.
The weighted truth
Most schools don't count every assignment the same. Often, one kind of assignment decides almost the whole grade, and the rest barely matters. A list that just says "3 missing assignments" doesn't tell you which one can actually drop a letter grade.
| Category | Weight | Score | Missing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practice Work | 0% of grade | 61% | 1 zero |
| Assessments | 100% of grade | 88% | 0 |
| Course average | 88% | — |
Just counting missing work would call this course at risk. It's actually fine — the missing work barely counts. Know Before Zero checks how much each assignment really counts, instead of guessing.
Security
Pricing
Here's exactly what $99 gets you, for one kid, for the whole year:
Questions
No. Know Before Zero is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any school district, PowerSchool, or Instructure. Home Access Center and Canvas are the products of those companies; we simply connect to the accounts you already have permission to use.
It's encrypted at rest, decrypted only inside the automated job that fetches your data, and never stored in plain text or logs. It's erased within 24 hours of your subscription ending.
Rare, but possible. If it happens to your district, we refund the unused part of your year — the product stopped being deliverable, so you stop paying for it. You won't be asked to justify it.
Yes, from your own account — no email, no phone call. Billing is annual and there's no contract. You keep full access through the end of the year you've paid for, and within the first 14 days you can take a full refund instead, for any reason.
Yes. Most schools don't give kids a Canvas account until middle school. Until then, Know Before Zero tracks grades and schedule straight from Home Access Center. Once Canvas turns on for your kid, we start tracking assignments automatically — nothing for you to change.
Home Access Center, paired with Canvas. More school websites are on the roadmap — tell us yours when you sign up.
Who's behind this
Built by a Texas dad for his two daughters — a high-school freshman and a 5th-grade gymnast. He got tired of finding out about a missing assignment the same night it turned into a zero, so he built the page he actually wanted: one screen, both portals, the real story.
Know Before Zero is that page, opened up for other families running the same two portals.