Open Source · Local-First · Built for Monash Students

Courseware, deadlines, and AI synthesis,
unified into one desktop workspace

Sign in once via official Monash SSO. All enrolled lecture materials, campus announcements, and assignment deadlines are automatically indexed, ordered by calendar-day urgency, and securely cached on your local device. Zero cloud tracking, zero repetitive navigation.

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Windows 10 / 11 · macOS 12+ · Linux (AppImage, .deb, AUR) · No sign-up required

Muster dashboard: every deadline from every unit merged into one list, ranked by urgency

Get started in three steps

Zero extraneous setup or cloud accounts. Ready out of the box.

Download and install

Grab the verified installer for your platform. Transparent and open-source. If a routine SmartScreen prompt appears on Windows, choose “More info” → “Run anyway”.

Authenticate via official SSO

Sign in directly through Monash's official authentication webview with standard Duo MFA. Credentials stay strictly between you and the university.

Instant indexing & offline access

Course structures are organized immediately. Deadlines, syllabus files, and lecture notes are ready for one-click batch downloading and full offline review.

Engineered to eliminate academic friction

Purpose-built capabilities designed for real-world coursework demands.

Smart incremental sync & permanent cache

A 5-minute rolling window prioritizes active units for instant 3–5 second daily syncs. All course assets are cached locally with past semesters cleanly archived, eliminating Moodle's sluggish page-by-page loading.

FIT5046 · FIT5125 · FIT5032 · FIT4005 Incremental caching · Instant daily sync

All-in-one local AI cockpit

Grounded directly in your local courseware cache: stream structured interactive checklists, build daily study roadmaps, and run cited Q&A with slide confidence badges. Includes data-hash freshness verification. Connect your own API key or local Ollama with zero cloud relays.

Local slide context · Cited Q&A · Zero cloud relays

Calendar-day precision & grade weightings

Grouped strictly by natural calendar boundaries into Overdue, Due Today, Due Tomorrow, and Upcoming, avoiding misleading hour calculations. Displays exact assignment weightings towards your final grade to calibrate revision priorities.

Natural calendar boundaries · Explicit weights

Local-first architecture, physical isolation

Engineered strictly with local-first principles. Authentication is handled directly within official SSO webviews; your credentials never touch Muster. With zero external relay servers, all courseware and state remain isolated on your machine.

Direct official SSO authentication 100% local data isolation Zero intermediary cloud servers Open source · Zero tracking

A closer look at your core workspace

Purpose-built interfaces designed for assignments, announcements, downloads, and AI synthesis.

Assignments

Verified submission status with calendar-day accuracy

View real-time submission, grading, and score metrics synchronized directly with Moodle. Deadlines are measured against natural calendar-day boundaries with explicit grade weightings, keeping active coursework front and center.

Assignment list with submission status, weighting and days remaining

Announcements

Smart semantic tags with unread-first priority

Aggregate announcements across all enrolled units with unread notices pinned first. Intelligently tagged into assignments, quizzes, exams, syllabus updates, or grades — filter any category in a single click.

Notification centre with announcements grouped by unit and filtered by type

Downloads

Structured local hierarchies with live transfer metrics

Batch download lecture slides, readings, and assignment briefs in one pass, organized automatically by unit code and week. Monitor live transfer speeds and progress, backed by explicit error diagnostics.

Download panel showing live progress, transfer speed and open-folder action

AI Cockpit

Structured action cards & cited slide Q&A

Transforms courseware into interactive action cards with checkable tasks, urgency badges, and weekly priorities. Supports cited Q&A grounded in lecture slides, with a data-hash engine that flags outdated summaries when coursework changes. Runs 100% locally with multi-language support.

Live preview — streaming structured action cards

AI Cockpit with weekly action cards and cited slide Q&A streaming live

Engineered for uninterrupted academic focus

Refined around real student scenarios, from lecture halls to offline revision sessions.

Ultralight footprint, silent background presence

Built on a native Tauri architecture, consuming a fraction of the memory required by typical Electron apps. Runs effortlessly alongside Zoom and heavy developer tools even on older laptops.

Complete offline availability, anytime & anywhere

Synchronized course materials and schedules reside permanently on your local drive. Seamlessly review slides and deadlines on flights, trains, or during campus Wi-Fi outages.

Adaptive parsing and frictionless maintenance

Equipped with an intelligent leaky-bucket throttler and adaptive DOM parser. Frequent updates ensure seamless compatibility with university portal changes with one-click in-app updating.

Frequently asked questions

Clear, transparent answers to technical and security questions.

Is it safe if Windows SmartScreen or macOS Gatekeeper displays a warning?

Completely safe. As an independent student open-source project, Muster does not carry an expensive enterprise code-signing certificate, triggering standard OS warnings. On Windows, click “More info” → “Run anyway”. On macOS, grant permission under System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Does using Muster comply with university and faculty IT policies?

Muster authenticates via standard browser-level SSO and retrieves only the units and files your account is legitimately authorized to access. It incorporates an internal leaky-bucket rate limiter that restricts request frequency well below manual web browsing, causing zero server strain. Please observe your faculty's IT guidelines and copyright rules.

Are my Monash credentials or passwords intercepted or stored?

Never. Authentication runs entirely inside Monash's official login webview container. Your password and Duo MFA prompts communicate directly with Monash identity servers over encrypted HTTPS. Muster never sees, intercepts, or logs plain-text credentials, storing only secure session cookies locally for persistent login.

Does it support course structures across all faculties?

The vast majority of standard Moodle layouts across all faculties are supported out of the box. If a specific unit uses an unconventional structure and certain files are missed, submit the unit code on GitHub Issues and we will deploy parser updates promptly.

Is Muster completely free? Will it ever become paid?

100% free and open source forever, with zero plans for monetization. Created by Monash IT students to streamline coursework management, it requires no third-party account registration. The AI cockpit operates on a Bring-Your-Own-Key model directly connecting to your chosen API or local Ollama with zero middleware markup.

Eliminate administrative friction, reclaim your study hours

Designed to take the repetitive overhead out of coursework management so you can focus on mastering your subjects.

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