Notification

Ame3

I am an instructor. Is there a setting so that students and instructor can be notified when someone asks a question on a discussion board? The goal is this: To set up one place for questions that the instructor can respond to universally instead of individually. Thank you.

Chris_Hofer

Hi @Ame3 ...

Users (instructors and students) can set up their notification settings for their entire Canvas account and per course.  There are three different notification settings for discussion topics: New Topic, New Reply, and New Mention (only available in the revised design of discussion topics ... not everyone has this just yet).  Users have to configure these notifications on their own.  For example, instructors cannot configure notification settings for their students.  Here are some Guides:

• How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as a student?
• How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as an instructor?
• How do I manage notifications for a single course as a student?
• How do I manage notifications for a single course as an instructor?
• Notification Settings (All Users)

Hopefully these Guides will help a bit.  Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!