Canvas Student Orientation Updating Your Notification Preferences

Introduction

Canvas includes a set of default notification preferences you can receive for your courses. Notifications are sent to Canvas contact methods (Links to an external site.) as specified in your account. You can adjust the Notification Preferences based on how you would like to be informed of changes in your courses. Do you want to be notified immediately of course events, daily, weekly or not at all? These notifications can come to you via email, SMS or other methods. The notifications are divided up into six categories: Course Activities, Discussions, Communications, Scheduling, Groups, and Alerts.

Notifications are sent as one of four delivery types:

course activities notification options

Notify Immediately
Daily Summary
Weekly Summary
Notification off

Viewing/Editing Notifications

In Global Navigation, click the Account link [1], then click the Notifications link [2].

Open Notifications

Setting Notification Preferences

Each notification is set to a default preference. To change a notification for a course activity, locate the notification and click the icon for your preferred delivery type.

course activities notification

Note:

Each set notification preference will automatically apply to all of your courses. They cannot be set individually.

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