Managing Your Canvas Notification Settings

The Notification Settings screen allows you to configure your personal notifications about specific actions that happen within Canvas. You can configure notifications for your overall Canvas account and for individual courses.

NOTE: Notification settings are configured by the individual user. Instructors cannot configure personal notification settings for students…nor can students configure personal notification settings for instructors.

1. In Global Navigation, click the Account link.
2. Select Notifications, and take note of the blue outlined information boxes at the top of the screen.
3. Near the top of the Notifications screen, use the Settings for drop-down list to select whether you would like to configure notification settings for your overall Canvas account or for a specific course.
   • Account-level notifications apply to all courses. Notifications for individual courses can be changed within each course and will override these notifications.
   • Course-level notifications are inherited from your account-level notification settings. Adjusting notifications for this course will override notifications at the account level.
4. In the Email column, click the icon for a given row to select how you want to be notified about a specific item. Your options are: Notify immediately, Daily summary, Weekly Summary, or Notifications off.
   • If you had added additional e-mail addresses under the Ways to Contact section of your personal Settings screen, you will have additional Email columns to configure.
5. In the Push Notifications column, click the icon for a given row to select how you want to be notified about a specific item. Your options are: Notify immediately or Notifications off.
   • Not all notifications are available for Push Notifications.

All changes are saved automatically.

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