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Ask your AI,
not Ufora.

UGSearch lets your AI read your Ufora, so you can simply ask what's new, when your next deadline is, or what's in this week's slides.

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Your AI assistant UGSearch
What do I need to do this week? Did I miss anything?
Read Ufora: overview of 12 courses
This needs your attention this week:

Deadlines

  • Thu 9 Oct, 23:59 · Statistics I: exercise set 3 (not submitted yet)
  • Mon 13 Oct, 12:00 · Business Economics: group assignment, part 1

New since last week

  • Private Law: Friday's lecture moves to the Leon De Smet auditorium.
Summarise the Statistics slides from week 4
Works in Claude, ChatGPT and Le Chat and through Gemini CLI

Connected in 20 seconds.

Create a free account, link your computer and choose your AI.

Welcome to UGSearch
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Create an account

Free, with your email address. Or: install UGSearch and ask Claude “open my dashboard”. Your account is created right away, no email needed.

5 s
UGSearch.mcpbFree · macOS and Windows · 3.4 MB
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Link your computer

Install UGSearch and sign in to Ghent University once.

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ClaudeConnected
ChatGPTConnect
Le ChatConnect
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Choose your AI and connect

One click per app, in your dashboard.

5 s

Download UGSearch, double-click it and click Install in Claude Desktop. You sign in to Ghent University once. Then ask Claude “open my dashboard”: your account is created right away.

Free · macOS and Windows · 3.4 MBHelp with installing
What do you need?

You're on your phone. UGSearch installs on your laptop. Send yourself the link, or create your account now.

Create an account

Your login and your knowledge base stay on your computer, which must be switched on for online use. Your AI app only sees what you ask and the answer to it.

Everything on Ufora. In plain language.

Your AI reads along in your own courses. Ask the way you would ask a classmate.

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Deadlines

"Do I have a deadline this week?"

Documents

"Which document explained Taylor's theorem again?"

Group work

"Sign me up for a group work Q&A session for Organisational Management."

Asks for your permission first from 27/10
Exams

"What did the professor say about the Microeconomics exam?"

Studying

"Make ten practice questions from Private Law lecture 5."

Grades

"What did I get on the Statistics midterm?"

Summaries

"Summarise this week's slides, per course."

Forum

"What are others asking on the forum about assignment 2?"

20 questions that save you time

Casual language, typos and abbreviations are fine. Even "wen is my OM exam" or "whos in my group" works.

  • "What's new on Ufora since Monday?"

    Instead of opening every course to check the announcements.

  • "Do I have a deadline this week?"

    Instead of comparing the calendar, assignments and announcements of every course.

  • "I was sick for a week. What did I miss?"

    Instead of scrolling back through announcements and new files, course by course.

  • "When is my Organisational Management exam?"

    Instead of hunting down the right announcement or info page.

  • "How much does the group work count for in Organisational Management?"

    Instead of reading through the course info page or course sheet.

  • "Is the Statistics exam open book, and can I bring a calculator?"

    Instead of searching through a semester's worth of announcements and exam info.

  • "What did the professor say about the Microeconomics exam?"

    Instead of opening all of the course's announcements one by one.

  • "Which document explained Taylor's theorem again?"

    Instead of guessing which course and folder it was in.

  • "Where are the solutions for exercise session 4?"

    Instead of clicking through folders inside folders.

  • "Download all the Mathematics slides to my laptop."

    Instead of opening and saving every file separately.

  • "Summarise this week's slides, per course."

    Instead of paging through all the new slides yourself.

  • "Make ten practice questions from Private Law lecture 5."

    Instead of coming up with questions for 60 slides yourself.

  • "Explain chapter 3 of Statistics in simple words."

    Instead of trying to decode slides that come without explanation.

  • "Have I submitted my paper for Academic English yet?"

    Instead of finding and opening the course's assignments page.

  • "What did I get on the Statistics midterm?"

    Instead of opening the grades page of every course.

  • "What was the feedback on my last assignment?"

    Instead of opening each assignment to find the feedback.

  • "Who is in my group for Organisational Management?"

    Instead of looking for the course's groups page.

  • "What are others asking on the forum about assignment 2?"

    Instead of scrolling through every forum thread.

  • "Submit my report.pdf to the Business Economics assignment."

    Instead of finding the assignment, uploading and confirming.

    Asks for your permission first
  • "Sign me up for a group work Q&A session for Organisational Management."

    Instead of finding the groups page and a free time slot.

    Asks for your permission first from 27/10

Always check deadlines and exam arrangements yourself on Ufora. Why?

We never see your password. And nothing happens without your click.

Your login and your knowledge base stay on your computer. Your AI app only sees what you ask and the answer to it. We don't store your study data.

Uses your own account, just like your browser

You sign in on the real Ghent University page, with your second factor, as always. We never see your password.

Reads by itself, writes only when you click

Posting on a forum or submitting an assignment only happens when you click Allow in the window. You can switch writing off completely. Answering quizzes is deliberately not possible.

Stored encrypted

Your Ufora session is stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) on your computer. The key is kept in your system's keychain.

Delete everything whenever you want

Ask your AI "delete everything from UGSearch" and confirm in the window, or delete the .ugsearch folder in your home folder. How it works.

Questions

What is UGSearch?

UGSearch is a free tool for Ghent University students that connects Ufora to an AI assistant such as Claude. You ask about your deadlines, exams, announcements, course documents, grades and group work in plain language, across all your courses at once. UGSearch is a product of Hellebuyck Adventures and is not an official Ghent University service.

Is UGSearch free?

Yes. UGSearch is free. You do need an AI assistant that supports custom connectors (MCP), such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.

What happens to my data?

UGSearch runs on your own computer: your Ufora login, your password and the knowledge base of your courses stay there. What you ask your AI app, and what UGSearch looks up in Ufora to answer it, goes to that app (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral) and falls under that app's terms. Online, this passes through our relay server, which stores and logs nothing. With an account, we only store your email address, your name and technical details about your linked computer, in the EU; never content from Ufora. Everything is in the privacy policy.

Do I need a terminal or Node.js?

No. Online, you paste your own link from UGSearch into your AI app. For Claude Desktop, you download one file and click Install; you do need Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for that, because the Ghent University login window opens there.

Does it work with ChatGPT, Claude online and Gemini?

Yes. You connect Claude online, ChatGPT and Le Chat with your own personal link from UGSearch; your dashboard shows the steps for each app. ChatGPT requires a paid plan with Developer Mode. The Gemini app doesn't allow custom connectors; use Gemini CLI. For online use, your computer must be switched on, because UGSearch runs on it.

Can my AI submit or post anything in my name?

Only if you allow it. Reading happens automatically, but every forum post or submission opens a window, and it only goes through after you click Allow. You can also switch writing off completely. Answering quizzes is deliberately not possible.

Where do my exam grades come from?

UGSearch shows the grades that lecturers publish on Ufora, such as midterm tests. Your official exam results are in Oasis.

What if my session expires?

UGSearch quietly renews your session in the background. Only if that fails does the Ghent University login window open again.

Is this a Ghent University service?

No. UGSearch is a product of Hellebuyck Adventures and is not supported by or affiliated with Ghent University. It only reads what you can already see on Ufora yourself.

Can I blindly trust what my AI says?

No. UGSearch is a tool, not a replacement for Ufora. Your AI can miss something, misread it or show outdated information. Always check deadlines, exam arrangements and grades yourself on Ufora and Oasis. If you miss a deadline because UGSearch didn't mention it, we are not liable for that.

Who makes UGSearch?

UGSearch is a product of Hellebuyck Adventures, the company of Thibault Hellebuyck, a student who hates the Ufora and Oasis user experience.

Help with installing

I don't have Chrome or Edge.

The Ghent University login window opens in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Install either one (both are free), then restart Claude Desktop.

I closed the login window by accident.

No problem. Just ask your AI a question about Ufora; the login window will open again by itself.

My AI says "Not signed in".

Your Ufora session expired and couldn't be renewed quietly. Ask your AI to sign in again, or ask a new question: the Ghent University window appears, and once you've signed in everything works again.

Windows warns about an unknown file.

Windows shows this message for new files that haven't been downloaded often yet. Only download UGSearch from this site. Click More info and then Run anyway, or open the file from Claude Desktop.

How do I get a new version?

Download UGSearch again with the button on this site and double-click it: Claude Desktop updates the extension, and you stay signed in. UGSearch tells you when a new version is available.

How do I remove UGSearch?

In Claude Desktop: Settings › Extensions › UGSearch › Uninstall. That doesn't delete your data automatically. So first ask your AI "delete everything from UGSearch" and confirm in the window, or delete the .ugsearch folder in your home folder. The steps are in the privacy policy.