Update Your Notifications

Notifications are emails or texts sent from Canvas to your email or phone number, which alert you to activity in your course, including messages from the teacher, discussion points, grade deadlines, assignments that have been graded, and other information.

Each Canvas user can adjust the Notification Preferences in his or her personal Settings to fit his or her needs. Some users will want to be notified of course events on a more regular basis than others. Users can choose to be notified of course activity via email or text message.

Please make sure you are receiving Announcements and Conversations either "right away" or in a daily digest. Your instructors will be using these two communication tools to reach out on a regular basis.

You can also set Notification preferences by course. Courses have a Course Notifications button on the course Home Page.  Setting Course notifications overrides the notifications you set at the account level.  Learn more by reading the Guide to Setting Course-Specific Notifications Links to an external site..