Bishop State Using Canvas as a Student

Adjusting Canvas Notifications

Course and user notifications can be adjusted in your Canvas user account. Review the tabbed menu below to learn more about how you can customize your account.

Video Overview

To make adjustments to your user and course notifications, click Account in the global navigation. In user account menu select Notifications. On the Notification page there will be a separate column for each way of contact. View the video tutorial and guides below:

Canvas Guides

Note: These guides are maintained by the Canvas Documentation Team and are available on the Canvas Community site (Links to an external site.). Some of the information in these guides may not apply to the Bishop State Community College instance of Canvas.

How do I set my Canvas notification preferences as a student? (Links to an external site.)
How do I set my Canvas notification preferences as an instructor? (Links to an external site.)

Starting with the June 20, 2020 Canvas release (Links to an external site.) all users will be able to refine course notifications per course. See the following guides for details.

Instructor guide: How do I manage notifications for a single course as an instructor? (Links to an external site.)
Student guide: How do I manage notifications for a single course as a student?

Other Notes

Notifications will change in the January 16, 2021 update. Please review this blog post from the Canvas Community to learn what will change.

Streamlining Canvas Push Notifications (Links to an external site.)

Starting with the October 17, 2020 Canvas release (Links to an external site.) the user account notification page design will change and appear similar to course level notifications page. On the notification page click the icon to display all of the options.

User Account Notification page with the Oct 2020 release changes