Canvas has ability to notify you through email and text for a variety of class interactions, including when you receive an email or when announcements are posted. Snow College recommends that you adjust these settings so that you receive updated information from your instructors and peers. You can set your notifications to come immediately, daily, weekly, or not at all. You can also personalize when different activity types are delivered so that you get the more important notifications sooner.
Notification settings apply to all of your courses unless you change the settings for an individual course. Text notifications are only available for course announcements and graded items.
Notification Settings (3:43)
This video from Canvas walks you through the steps of changing your notification preferences in Canvas.
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.
If you have additional questions about notifications in Canvas, visit the How do I set the notification settings? guide from Canvas.