The notification settings help manage how you can stay up to date with everything happening in your courses. You can choose when you are alerted about important updates, such as course announcements, messages, assignment due dates, and scores.
Open User Settings
Click the drop-down icon [1], then click the User Settings button [2].
Open Notifications
In the User settings page, click the Notifications link.
Manage Notifications
On the Notification Settings page, you can manage how you receive notifications for your Canvas Career account and/or manage how you receive notifications for individual courses.
A banner describes the settings you are managing [1]. Another banner indicates the times when daily and weekly notifications will be delivered [2]. To dismiss a banner message, click the Close icon [3].
By default, the Settings for drop-down menu displays the Account option [4]. Account-level notification settings apply to all of your Canvas Career courses. However, any course-specific notification settings override account notification settings.
You can view your current account-level settings [5].
View Notification Types and Methods
Account-level notification types are listed by category [1]. There are notifications for course activities, discussions, conversations, groups, scheduling, and conferences.
You can also view your contact methods such as email addresses [2].
Each notification has a default delivery frequency setting. To view the current notification delivery frequency for a notification type and contact method, hover over the notification icon [3].
To manage notification frequency for a course notification, locate the notification and contact method. Then, click the Notification icon [1]. You can select one of four delivery frequency types:
- Notify immediately [2]: receive these notifications right away for this course. These notifications may be delayed by up to one hour in case an instructor makes additional changes, which prevents you from being spammed by multiple notifications in a short amount of time.
- Daily summary [3]: receive a daily summary for this notification type.
- Weekly summary [4]: receive a weekly summary for this notification type.
- Notifications off [5]: no notifications sent for this notification type.
Notes:
- Each set notification setting automatically applies to all of your courses. However, if you manage notification settings for a single course, notifications for that course must continue to be managed in the course.
- Although unregistered contact methods display in notification settings, they will not receive notifications until you confirm the registration.
