Your Notification Preferences

By default, Canvas notifications (including those regarding course activities, discussions, and administrative alerts) will be sent to your UW email address using their default frequency (immediate, daily, weekly, or not at all). You can customize both of these to your liking.

Adding Another Email Address and/or Text Message Number

To have notifications sent to an additional email address and/or via text message, you  need to modify your Notification Preferences:

1. Click Account and choose Settings.
2. On the right of the Settings screen, click +Email Address to add another email or +Contact Method to add your phone number for text messages.

For more on modifying your contact methods as an instructor, see the Canvas guide: How do I add contact methods to receive Canvas notifications as an instructor? Links to an external site.

Changing Notification Frequency

1. Click Account and choose Notifications.
2. Use the controls to the right of each notification type to set that notification to Immediate, Daily, Weekly, or None.

Don't worry if you don't yet know what some notifications mean. You can adjust these at any time!

Watch the video below for a demonstration of setting notification preferences.

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