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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New since last week
Create a free account, link your computer and choose your AI.
Free, with your email address. Or: install UGSearch and ask Claude “open my dashboard”. Your account is created right away, no email needed.
Install UGSearch and sign in to Ghent University once.
One click per app, in your dashboard.
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.
You're on your phone. UGSearch installs on your laptop. Send yourself the link, or create your account now.
On claude.ai and in the Claude app on your phone. You paste one personal link; your dashboard shows you how.
ConnectOn chatgpt.com, with a paid plan and Developer Mode. Your dashboard shows you the steps.
ConnectIn Mistral's Le Chat, with the same personal link.
ConnectThe Gemini app doesn't allow custom connectors; use Gemini CLI. Your dashboard shows you how.
Connect Gemini CLIYour 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.
Your AI reads along in your own courses. Ask the way you would ask a classmate.
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"Do I have a deadline this week?"

"Which document explained Taylor's theorem again?"

"Sign me up for a group work Q&A session for Organisational Management."
Asks for your permission first from 27/10
"What did the professor say about the Microeconomics exam?"

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

"What did I get on the Statistics midterm?"

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

"What are others asking on the forum about assignment 2?"
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 27/10Always check deadlines and exam arrangements yourself on Ufora. Why?
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.
You sign in on the real Ghent University page, with your second factor, as always. We never see your password.
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.
Your Ufora session is stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) on your computer. The key is kept in your system's keychain.
Ask your AI "delete everything from UGSearch" and confirm in the window, or delete the .ugsearch folder in your home folder. How it works.
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.
Yes. UGSearch is free. You do need an AI assistant that supports custom connectors (MCP), such as Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UGSearch shows the grades that lecturers publish on Ufora, such as midterm tests. Your official exam results are in Oasis.
UGSearch quietly renews your session in the background. Only if that fails does the Ghent University login window open again.
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.
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.
UGSearch is a product of Hellebuyck Adventures, the company of Thibault Hellebuyck, a student who hates the Ufora and Oasis user experience.
The Ghent University login window opens in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Install either one (both are free), then restart Claude Desktop.
No problem. Just ask your AI a question about Ufora; the login window will open again by itself.
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 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.
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.
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.