Canvas includes a set of default notification preferences you can receive for your courses. These can be set on a Course level or on a Global level. Notifications are sent to the contact methods as specified in your account settings. You can change the default settings by choosing your own notification preferences.

Note: Please do not turn off all notifications, as you will miss important information and updates about your courses.

Notifications are sent as one of four delivery types:

notify me right away
daily summary
weekly summary
Off (No Notification)

If you change a setting, the change is made immediately to your account.

Global Notifications

Click the Account link [1], then click the Notifications link [2].

Now you can set your Notification Preferences for each contact method.

Each notification is set to a default preference. To change a notification for a contact method, locate the notification and click the icon to set your preferred delivery type.

notifications settings

Note: Unregistered contact methods will appear in notification preferences but will not receive notifications until you confirm the registration.

Set Push Notifications

If you have enabled push notifications in the Canvas by Instructure app, the Notifications page displays a Push Notification column. Please be aware that push notifications can only be sent to your mobile device right away or not at all—daily and weekly notification options are not supported.

Additionally, setting preferences inside the app will override preferences set in the notifications page.

The tech tip below outlines how to customise your push notifications.

Notifications for Individual Courses

Notification settings adjusted from your account apply to all of your courses, to set notifications for your individual courses, navigate to the course and select 'View Course Notifications'.

View Course Notifications

Now you can choose how you wish to receive each type of notification:

choose course notifications

This tech tip shows you how to set your notifications of a course-by-course basis.