Title: Canvas Settings
Course: CIS 205 Part 1: T&I Preparation > Section: Module 3: EDCC LMS

Course Objective: Successfully navigate both global and course level features of Canvas, such as calendars, tasks, settings, Canvas Mail, syllabi, outcomes, modules, discussion boards, grades, and assignments.

Canvas Settings

Canvas allows you to personalize your settings.  This allows you to:

- Change your displayed name
- Add your birthday
- Select a default language
- Select your time zone
- Add a profile picture
- Update how you are notified of course announcements, upcoming and graded course tasks
- Determine what social media through which you want others to be able to contact you
- Add a bio
- Add additional email addresses

During your first meeting with your Academic Coach, you should discuss these settings, particularly the notifications and email settings.
To access your settings, click on the "Settings" link in the upper right hand corner of the Canvas Screen.
To modify your personal settings, you will click on the Edit Settings.

Notification Settings

It is very important to your success that you promptly receive notifications. Review your notifications settings to ensure they are set properly.

On the left side of your settings screen, you will have a new menu.

Select Notifications.

You are able to set how often you see notifications to your email by hovering over the the column under your email address.

Your options are:

1. Notify me right away (the check mark) - You will receive an email as soon as the activity happens.
2. Send daily summary (the clock) - You will be notified daily of any change for the activity.
3. Send weekly summary (the calendar) - You will be notified weekly of any change for the activity
4. Do not send me anything (the X) - You will remove the notification preference and will not be notified of any change for the activity.

It is strongly suggested for this program that you set your notifications at a minimum to weekly.  A daily summary would be much better, discuss with your mentor your study times and days.

Profile Settings

Your profile on Canvas should be very important to you.  This is how course mentors and your student mentor will initially get to know who you are.  One of the PACE-IT programs' goals is for you to be successful in your education and career. This is a good place to practice and present a professional demeanor to the world.

To edit your Profile settings:

- Click on your name in the upper left hand corner navigation.

- Toward the upper right, click on the Edit Profile.

- If you would like, or need to, change the display of your name to what you would like to be called.  This should be kept to legal names or semi-formal nicknames.
- You may manage the ways that you would like people to contact you.  This is a way to add social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, or LinkedIn accounts to your profile.
- Links allow you a way to publish or directly link from your Canvas profile to another web page.

Conclusion

I hope that this quick overview of Canvas Settings will help you be successful throughout your studies.  If you need further help with Canvas, you have a number of resources.  They are:

- START - Student Technology Advice and Resource Team: get help with technology from this student led group.
- Canvas Guides - Canvas Student Guide You can access these through the Help link in the upper right of your Canvas screen.

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