Canvas

Setting Notifications - Global and for a Single Course

Canvas includes a set of default notification preferences you can receive for your courses. However, you can change the default settings by setting your own notification preferences. These preferences only apply to you; they are not used to control how course updates are sent to other users.

Setting Global Canvas Notifications
Setting Course Level Notifications

Setting Global Canvas Notifications

Set your default notification settings for all courses through the Account Notification Settings.

In the left Global Navigation menu, click on Account.
In the menu that appears, click Notifications.

The Account Notification Settings page loads. These settings apply to all courses, but course level notifications will override these account level notifications. For each notification type, select the delivery frequency for each of your contact methods. As shown here, you may wish to use one email address as your primary contact method, but also have a second email address associated with your Canvas profile.
Delivery frequency options include:
1. Notify immediately
2. Notifications off
3. Daily summary
4. Weekly summary
Click on the notification icon to change the notification delivery frequency preference.

For more details on each of the individual Course Activities, hover over each line item name.
To set push notifications, enable push notifications in the Canvas Student or Teacher app in the Push Notification column. Push notifications can only be sent to your mobile device right away or not at all. There is no option for daily and weekly notifications.

Setting Course Level Canvas Notifications

Override default notifications settings by modifying Course Level notifications.

In the home page sidebar of the course for which you would like to override the default notification settings, click the View Course Notifications button.
By default, course level notifications are enabled. When course notifications are enabled, the toggle will display a green checkmark icon (A). When course notifications are disabled, the toggle will display an X icon (B). You can select to enable or disable notifications for specific courses.
Manage your course notification preferences in the same manner as you did with the global notification preferences. You may, for example, set your secondary email address as the contact method for a specific course.
To view the status of your course notification, go to your course home page. The View Course Notifications button icon shows if course notifications are enabled (A) or disabled (B).

For more information:

UBC Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning Canvas Directory

Updated September 2021