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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Video Transcript: Notification Settings Student

00:07: How do I manage my canvas notification settings?

00:11: In Global Navigation, click the Account link, then click the Notifications link.

00:17: On the notification settings page you can manage how you receive notifications

00:21: for your canvas account and or manage how you receive notifications for individual courses.

00:27: A banner describes the settings you are managing another Banner indicates the

00:31: times when daily and weekly notifications will be delivered.

00:35: To dismiss a banner message. Click the close icon.

00:39: By default the settings for drop-down menu displays the account option.

00:43: Account level notification settings apply to all of your canvas courses.

00:47: However, any course specific notification settings override

00:51: account notification settings.

00:55: You can view your current account level settings.

00:58: Account level notification types are listed by category.

01:01: There are notifications for course activities discussions conversations

01:05: groups scheduling and conferences.

01:10: You can also view your contact methods such as email addresses and push notifications

01:14: for mobile devices.

01:17: Each notification has a default delivery frequency setting to view the

01:21: current notification delivery frequency for a notification type and contact

01:25: method hover over the notification icon.

01:29: To view details for a notification hover the cursor over the notification

01:33: name. View details such as the activities that trigger the notification.

01:38: Each notification is set to a default setting to change a notification for

01:42: a contact method locate the notification and click the icon for

01:46: the contact method.

01:49: To receive a notification right away select the notify immediately option.

01:54: These notifications may be delayed by up to 1 hour in case an instructor makes

01:58: additional changes which prevents you from being spammed by multiple notifications

02:02: in a short amount of time.

02:05: To receive a daily notification select the daily summary option the

02:09: date and time of your daily notifications are posted in a banner at the top of the notification

02:13: settings page.

02:16: To receive a weekly notification select the weekly summary option the

02:20: date and time of your weekly notifications are posted in a banner at the top of the notification

02:24: settings page.

02:27: If you do not want to receive a notification select the notifications off

02:31: option.

02:33: Unsupported notification types display the unsupported icon.

02:36: You cannot manage unsupported notifications.

02:41: If you have enabled push notifications in the canvas student mobile app on an Android

02:45: device or on an iOS device. You can manage your settings in the push notification

02:49: column. Push notifications can only be sent to your mobile

02:53: device right away or not at all. Daily and weekly notification

02:58: options are not supported. Some categories include limited

03:02: availability for push notifications for full details about supported

03:06: notifications for push notifications refer to the canvas notifications

03:10: resource document.

03:13: If your institution uses a third-party messaging application called slack and

03:17: has enabled slack as a contact method you can add slack as a contact

03:21: method and receive direct message notifications from canvas and Slack.

03:26: Slack notifications may vary depending on your slack notification settings.

03:32: This guide covered how to manage my canvas notification settings.

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