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Support for Marian University's Learning Management System Canvas.

Setting up and Changing Notification Preferences

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00:07: How do I manage my canvas notification settings? 00:11: In Global Navigation, click the Account link, then click the Notifications link. 00:17: On the notification settings page you can manage how you receive notifications 00:21: for your canvas account and or manage how you receive notifications for individual courses. 00:27: A banner describes the settings you are managing another Banner indicates the 00:31: times when daily and weekly notifications will be delivered. 00:35: To dismiss a banner message. Click the close icon. 00:39: By default the settings for drop-down menu displays the account option. 00:43: Account level notification settings apply to all of your canvas courses. 00:47: However, any course specific notification settings override 00:51: account notification settings. 00:55: You can view your current account level settings. 00:58: Account level notification types are listed by category. 01:01: There are notifications for course activities discussions conversations 01:05: groups scheduling and conferences. 01:10: You can also view your contact methods such as email addresses and push notifications 01:14: for mobile devices. 01:17: Each notification has a default delivery frequency setting to view the 01:21: current notification delivery frequency for a notification type and contact 01:25: method hover over the notification icon. 01:29: To view details for a notification hover the cursor over the notification 01:33: name. View details such as the activities that trigger the notification. 01:38: Each notification is set to a default setting to change a notification for 01:42: a contact method locate the notification and click the icon for 01:46: the contact method. 01:49: To receive a notification right away select the notify immediately option. 01:54: These notifications may be delayed by up to 1 hour in case an instructor makes 01:58: additional changes which prevents you from being spammed by multiple notifications 02:02: in a short amount of time. 02:05: To receive a daily notification select the daily summary option the 02:09: date and time of your daily notifications are posted in a banner at the top of the notification 02:13: settings page. 02:16: To receive a weekly notification select the weekly summary option the 02:20: date and time of your weekly notifications are posted in a banner at the top of the notification 02:24: settings page. 02:27: If you do not want to receive a notification select the notifications off 02:31: option. 02:33: Unsupported notification types display the unsupported icon. 02:36: You cannot manage unsupported notifications. 02:41: If you have enabled push notifications in the canvas student mobile app on an Android 02:45: device or on an iOS device. You can manage your settings in the push notification 02:49: column. Push notifications can only be sent to your mobile 02:53: device right away or not at all. Daily and weekly notification 02:58: options are not supported. Some categories include limited 03:02: availability for push notifications for full details about supported 03:06: notifications for push notifications refer to the canvas notifications 03:10: resource document. 03:13: If your institution uses a third-party messaging application called slack and 03:17: has enabled slack as a contact method you can add slack as a contact 03:21: method and receive direct message notifications from canvas and Slack. 03:26: Slack notifications may vary depending on your slack notification settings. 03:32: This guide covered how to manage my canvas notification settings.