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Managing Your Canvas Notification Settings

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. You cannot configure personal notification settings for your students…nor can students configure your personal notification settings.

  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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Manage Notifications for Your Entire Canvas Account

How do I manage my Canvas notification settings?

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.

Manage Notifications for a Single Course

How do I manage notifications for a single course?

00:07: How do I manage notifications for a single course? 00:11: In global navigation, click the account link, then click the notifications 00:15: link. 00:17: You can manage notification settings for your canvas account and or four individual 00:21: courses. To manage notification settings. 00:24: For an individual course, click the settings for drop-down menu, then 00:29: click the course name. 00:31: Alternatively, you can access course notifications from the course home page 00:35: by clicking The View. Course, notifications button. 00:39: A banner display stating course, level notification settings, apply override 00:43: any account. Level notifications, you may have said to dismiss the message, 00:47: click the clothes icon. 00:50: To enable or disable all notifications. 00:52: For the course, click the enable notifications toggle 00:57: View the course, level notification types. 00:59: And you’re listed contact methods, 01:02: Each notification has a default delivery frequency. 01:04: Setting to view the current notification delivery frequency for a notification type 01:09: and contact method. Hover over the notification icon, 01:14: To manage notification frequency for a course, notification locate 01:18: the notification and contact method, then click the notification 01:22: icon. You can select one of for delivery frequency types. 01:27: Notify you immediately receive these notifications right away for this course, 01:31: these notifications may be delayed by up to 1 hour in case an instructor 01:35: makes additional changes which prevents you from being spammed by multiple notifications, 01:39: in a short amount of time. 01:43: Daily summary, receive a daily summary for this notification type. 01:48: Weekly summary receive a weekly summary for this notification type. 01:53: Notifications off. No notification set for this notification type. 01:58: You can view your course, notification status on your course. 02:00: Homepage The View course, notifications button icon. 02:04: Displays if course, notifications are enabled or disabled, 02:09: This guy covered how to manage notifications for a single course as a student.

Author Chris HoferPosted on September 18, 2024October 24, 2025Categories Canvas, Profile & User SettingsTags Canvas, Manage, Notification, Notifications, Settings

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