Forget massive tuition costs. Let Prodeus catalog the hours you spend learning on Youtube and all the work you do along the way.

Latest Version

Version
2.1.0
Update
May 19, 2022
Size
10.05MiB
Developer
prodeus.co
Category
Users
3,000+
Rating
4.25806 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
Https://www.youtube.com/
Https://api-js.mixpanel.com/*
Https://www.prodeus-api.herokuapp.com/*
Https://prodeus-api-staging.herokuapp.com/*
Https://www.prodeus.app/*
Https://www.prodeus-web-staging.herokuapp.com/*
*://mandrillapp.com/*
ActiveTab
Tabs
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Prodeus Extension

👋 Hi friends!

Prodeus is a free chrome extension that cleverly tracks the time you spend watching educational videos on Youtube so that you can earn a digital degree no matter your financial situation.

We built Prodeus because we believe that everyone regardless of wealth, status or nationality deserves equal access to higher education, as it’s the single most important factor in upward social mobility. In these past few years we’ve seen a dramatic rise in remote learning as universities continually raise their prices or close their doors from COVID.

📃 How it works
1. Add the extension to your Chrome browser, pin it to the toolbar and create your Prodeus profile.
2. Connect classes from Youtube📺 to the Prodeus library by hovering over an active youtube video and clicking \"Track my time\". You will also include the category, skill and difficulty of the class.
3. Prodeus tracks your time spent watching classes and accrues your hours categorically, allowing you to earn degrees in Art & Design, Computer Science, Business, or Academics.
4. As you accrue more hours, you build up your expertise and level up your ProDegree.

In our 2.0 launch we added a series of learning tools to provide more structure, better retention and hastened mastery of new skills. We also let you use the extension outside Youtube...whether your on Wikipedia, Coursera, Codeacademy or Medium you can use the learning tools Prodeus provides.

🤔 Quizzes: You and the community can easily create short answer or multiple choice quizzes to help practice your knowledge. Prodeus will ask you to retake these quizzes regular intervals to ensure retention.

📝 Notes: You can take notes while you learn inside the Prodeus widget, easily organizing your notes inside dedicated sections.

🛣️ Pathways: These sections form the building blocks for your own custom learning pathways. Learning pathways allow you to collect and organize educational resources that you find helpful and important (videos, web links, conversations and quizzes).

🎓 What’s a ProDegree?
ProDegrees mirror traditional university degrees. For instance a Bachelors degree requires 3600 class hours, whereas the reflective ProDegree ‘Master’ requires 2000 class hours.

In our first release of our platform we focusedd on time watched as the single indicator of effort. In our 2.0 release we've brought in quizzes as a second indicator of effort alongside credit for adding value to the community with class/quiz reviews.

📚 Learner-Led Education
Studies show that learner-led education can yield great outcomes for many students. Prodeus helps you measure your self-education process in a Montessori-style approach, letting you decide what and when to learn.

You can choose each individual class you take or you can follow curated pathways from user-generated Courses, collections of classes that can take users on a complete journey through a particular topic, skill or an entire field. As users try and accrue large quantities of time they will be confronted with diverse and unique viewpoints and learn various ways to attack any one skill or task.

🚨 Quality Control
All of the classes on Prodeus require peer reviews which ends up determining the eligibility of that class to provide credit to students. If classes earn below a 3.5 star rating they will not be eligible to provide credit.

On Our Roadmap
🕹️ Integration with Other Platforms: Soon we will allow our users to track their time on Skillshare, Coursera, Udemy, Lynda.

📦 Project-Based Classes: Course creators will be able to add a project to their youtube class so that students can immediately apply the knowledge they’ve gained in a practical way.
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install Prodeus extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Prodeus extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Prodeus extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Prodeus extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Prodeus extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Prodeus extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Prodeus Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Prodeus extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Prodeus extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Prodeus extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Prodeus extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Prodeus extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Prodeus extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Prodeus extension file

Select and download the Prodeus extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Prodeus extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Prodeus extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Prodeus extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Prodeus extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Yasser Hawass (ID: 00000054e2472d6a) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 06/19/2022 great idea, but for some reason whenver i download it on Chrome current version, it uses all my CPU & disk and i have to terminate chrome and have to disable it, hope it's just a bug and not some kind of scheme.

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Suvi (ID: 0000004959bcd205) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 04/05/2022 I've been using Prodeus for moths now and I really like it! But sadly with few of latest updates to Chrome the extension has started to have some serious problems. I re-installed an older version of Chrome, but that's not really a sustainable solution in the long run. I really hope they fix the problems soon.

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FallenLegEND (ID: 0000008ef75caf94) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 03/29/2022 The app sounds very promising and helpful but i cant get it to work, the extension requires me to log in and upon pressing log it it takes me to log in web page, i am logging it and the extension still requires me to login :(

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Devakinandan K (ID: 0000003136b6b441) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 02/02/2022 there is no settings in this extension, to stop push notifications please some costimasize and edit options.

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tjtechi “tjtechi” (ID: 00000083b22f8c7d) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/12/2021 Nice app, please I forgot my current password. How do I my reset my old forgotten password? I cannot see this functionality anyway. So I cannot login right now.