Wiki Page, Welcome to Canvas 101: Edit Your Profile, Notifications and Courses Menu

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2016-04-25T09:32:48-06:00

Tips

One thing you should do to make your navigation more efficient is to customize your Course drop-down menu (Links to an external site.) so that you can see only the courses that you are currently enrolled in as a teacher or student.

When students register their school provided Google Accounts, it makes it easy for them to submit assignments stored in Google Drive.

Guides

Customize Canvas Guide by Janetta: How to edit your profile, notifications and courses menu.

Notification Preferences

Connect Web Services

Profile
You can edit your profile pictures, add a biography, and personal links.

Connect Web Services

When you register other web services with Canvas, you can integrate your account with services you already use like Google, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Courses Menu
You can customize the courses you want to show in your Courses drop-down menu. This is something you may want to do each semester or at the start of each school year.

Notifications

Notification Preferences allow users to select how and when they want to be notified when various events occur within a course. Notification settings are applied to all courses.

Anytime changes or updates occur in the following six areas, you will receive a notification.

Course Activities

Discussions

Communications

Scheduling

Groups

The frequency of each notification can be set to ASAP, daily, weekly or never.

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