Update your notification preferences
When something happens in your course, (e.g. your instructor adds an assignment, makes an announcement or changes a due date) Canvas will send a notification to you. By default, Canvas notifies your SAIC email address, but you can add another email address, your cell phone number, or other accounts (see previous step) to this notification list. You can then decide how Canvas sends notifications and how often. This will allow you to receive notifications from Canvas via the channels that are most convenient for you.
Set your notification preferences
1. Choose Account and click Notifications on the left.
2. Set Notification Preferences
On the left you will see the list of reasons Canvas would send a notification. On the right in columns, you will see your SAIC email address and each contact method you added. You can decide where each notification goes and when you receive them.
When you hover over a cell, four buttons appear.
- By selecting the Checkmark icon, you will be immediately notified of any change for the activity.
- By selecting the Clock icon, you will be notified daily of any change for the activity.
- By selecting the Calendar icon, you will be notified weekly of any change for the activity.
- By selecting the X icon, you will remove the notification preference and will not be notified of any change for the activity.
Note: Each set notification preference will apply to all of your courses.