Title: Assignment: Personalize Canvas
Course: CIS 205 Part 1: T&I Preparation

Personalize Canvas

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your ability to:

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.

To accomplish this demonstration, you will:

- Update your Notification settings
- Add a short bio

Update your Notification settings

- Open your personalized Canvas settings in a new instance of your browser window.
- Select Notification from the left hand navigation menu.
- Set your notifications for each area of Canvas. It is strongly suggested that you set this to a minimum of Weekly (the calendar icon).
- After setting your notifications, take a screen capture of the Course Activity section and paste it into a Word document.

Add a short bio

Write a short bio about yourself.

- If needed, open your personalized Canvas settings in a new instance of your browser window.
- Select Profile from the left hand navigation menu.
- Select Edit Profile from the right hand options.
- Write your bio.  You should include within your bio:
  - Your name, this should be how you would like to be addressed by your coach and class mates
  - The certification that you are pursuing
  - Your career goals
  - Why you chose to be a part of PACE-IT
  - What you like to do when you are not studying
- If you would like, you may also add a picture of yourself or something important to you in your life.

What to turn in:

- Your Word document with your screen capture of your notification update.  (Only files with a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf extension are allowed.)
- Your document should include:
  - Your name
  - Your student identification number

Where to turn it in:

  - Upload your completed Word document