Setup Your Notification Preferences

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Notification preferences allow users to select how and when they want to be notified about events and activities in each of their courses in MyClasses. Watch the video below for more information about how to set up notification preferences.

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Setting Your Preferences:

From the top right-hand corner select the Settings link.
On the left side of the screen, in the User Navigation menu, select Notification. From here you will be able to specify how you want to be notified for each contact method.

View Notification Preferences

The Notification Preferences are split into six sections. Under each of these categories, separate notification types may be adjusted as follows:

Course Activities

Due Date: Assignment due date change
Grading Policies: Course grading policy change
Course Content: Change to course content including WikiPage, Assignment, and Quiz content
Files: New file added to your course. Canvas will only notify you of new files in a course once they have been updated.
Announcement: New announcement in your course
Announcement Created By You: You can see what announcements you have sent. Also, if you allow replies, a notification will be sent for announcement replies.
Grading: Includes assignments/submission grade entered/changed, unmuted assignment grade, grade weight changed. Check Include scores when alerting about grade changes checkbox if you want to see your grades in your Notification. If you aren't using your institutional email address, be aware that sensitive information will be sent outside the institution.
Invitation: Includes invitations to web conferences, collaborations, groups, course, peer review and peer review reminders
All Submissions (Instructor & Admin only): Assignment submission/resubmission
Late Grading (Instructor & Admin only): Late assignment submission
Submission Comment: Assignment submission comment.

Discussions

Discussion: New discussion topic in your course
Discussion Post: New discussion post in a topic you're subscribed to

Conversations

Added to Conversation: You are added to a conversation
Conversation Message: New Inbox message
Conversations Created By Me: You created a conversation

Scheduling

Student Appointment Signups: Student appointment signup using Scheduler
Appointment Signups: New appointment on your calendar
Student Appointment Cancelations: Appointment cancelation
Appointment Availability: Change to appointment time slots
Calendar: New and changed items on your course calendar

Groups

Group Membership Updates: Group enrollment, accepted/rejected membership; (Admin only) pending enrollment activated

Alerts

To change a notification for a contact method, hover over the notification type you want to change.

Select one of four options:

Select the Checkmark icon to be notified immediately of any change for the activity.
Select the Clock icon to be notified daily of any change for the activity.
Select the Calendar icon to be notified weekly of any change for the activity.
Select the X icon to remove the notification preference so you won't be notified of any change for the activity.

Course Activities notification options for due dates, files, annoncements, etc. There are arrows numbered one through four pointing to icons in the notification setting opion menu correcpsonding to a checkmark, a clock, a calendar and an X.

Notification Preferences

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