Audience: Franklin University faculty accessing courses in Canvas.
Disclaimer: The results and functionality of the following article only apply to the audience listed above.
Disclaimer: The results and functionality of the following article only apply to the audience listed above.
Topics
- Canvas Notifications Overview
- How to Change Notifications in Canvas
- How to Add Additional Emails/Phone Numbers for Notification
Canvas Notifications Overview
Canvas offers instructors plenty of customization regarding notifications. These notifications can be adjusted to send you emails, push notifications to your devices, or text messages. You can even add multiple email addresses or phone numbers to your account as additional places to receive notifications. For a brief overview of how this works, read the article below. For a more detailed explanation, you can also view Canvas's article here.
How to Change Notifications in Canvas
To find your notifications in Canvas:
- Login to https://franklinu.instructure.com/ (for help on logging in, see our article ________ )
- From the global navigation menu on the far, left-hand side of the screen, click on Account -> Notifications:
- This will open up the notifications menu. This menu automatically has a column designated to notification settings for your account email address. To add another email address or phone number to send notifications to, click here to jump to the instructions for this below.
- Now you will see a list of topics to adjust your notifications for, including course activity, discussions, conversations and much more.
- Notice the icon key at the top of the page, which explains how often you will receive a notification.
- Notice the icon key at the top of the page, which explains how often you will receive a notification.
- Click through and choose which options best fit you and your students' needs.
- While there are no requirements for notification settings, we highly recommend that all instructors set all course notifications to be at least a weekly summary. You may want to choose notify me right away for more important things like chat conversations, messages, and global announcements just so you don't miss anything urgent.
- We do NOT recommend turning off any course-related notifications, as this could easily lead to missing submissions, discussion posts, or other ways students may reach out for help.
Tips:
- Notifications cannot be set for each course, but only for your account.
- Each time you click on an icon, Canvas automatically saves your new preference.
- If you hover your mouse over the text for each setting, you can view a more detailed explanation of what each notification means.
How to Add Additional Emails/Phone Numbers for Notification
If you would like to receive notifications to an additional email address or phone number, Canvas makes this extremely easy to do:
- In the global navigation menu, click on Account -> Settings.
- On the far, right-hand side of the screen, you will see a little menu that allows you to click either +Email Address or +Contact Method to enter your additional contact information.
- After entering your method, make sure you click Register Email/SMS. This will then cause each contact method to show up under the notifications menu so that you can edit the settings for each one.