Managing Your Personal Settings

Canvas Student Orientation  Managing Your Personal Settings

Introduction

Your personal settings include your profile picture, language settings, contact information, and feature options. The Canvas Student guide Links to an external site. offers detailed instructions on the available Profile and User Settings.

How to Access Settings

  1. Click the Account link [1] in the Global Navigation menu
  2. Select Settings [2]

Personal Settings page, highlighting account in the global navigation and settings.

Setting Your Profile Picture

Adding a profile picture helps you connect more readily with your peers and instructors, as it's always helpful to put a name to a face when communicating online. 

  1. Click the personal picture icon [1].
    Personal Settings page, personal picture icon
  2. Click the Upload a Picture tab [1], then click the choose a picture link [2]. You can also drag a picture from your desktop and drop it into the uploader. You may also select the Take a Picture option to use your webcam to take a picture.

select profile picture dialogue box, highlighting 1 upload a picture, 2 choose a picture

Adding Contact Methods


Add Email Address

Your account will already display the email associated with your account.

    1. If you want to add an additional email address, click the Add Email Address link.
    2. If you want to add any other type of contact method such as Twitter or text messages, click the Add Contact Method.

add email address and contact method in canvas settings

Register Your Cell Phone

Registering your number will push text message notifications to your cell phone based on your Canvas notification preferences, such as when grades are released by your instructor or class announcements are sent. Alternatively, the Canvas Student mobile app can also push notifications to your smartphone while allowing you to access course materials on-the-go.

  1. Click on Contact Method.
  2. Click on the Text (SMS) tab and enter the 10-digit phone number you want to add in the Cell Number field.
  3. Select the Carrier drop-down menu to set your carrier.
  4. The SMS email will auto-populate depending on your provider.
  5. Click the Register SMS button.
  6. Confirm SMS Number. You will receive a text message on your cell phone with an activation code. Enter the code into the text field [1] and click the Confirm button [2]. Click the Re-Send Confirmation link to receive the confirmation code again [3].

Register SMS: United States Confirm SMS Number

Linking External Web Services


Canvas can make your life a lot easier by tying itself in with the web tools you already use. When you register other web services with Canvas, they will appear on the left under Registered Services [1]. Other services that are available for registration will appear in the right column under the Other Services [2].

Learn how to add web services (Links to an external site.) in Canvas.

Link to Web Services

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