Link contact email
- Go to “settings” under your account icon
- The “ways to contact” section defaults to sending notifications to the email address on file with Harvard
- Click “Add Email Address” to register and confirm a new email address.
- To set the newly email address as the default email- hover over the email address and star it.
Change account-wide notifications
- Go to “notifications” under your account icon
- The notifications settings chart is split into different categories, such as course activities and alerts.
- Hover over the text for more information on each item. Change the settings for each item by clicking its corresponding icon
- You have the option to get notified immediately, receive daily or weekly summaries, or turn notifications off for an item completely
- Notifications you do receive will appear in your email addressed from “Canvas for Harvard”
Change specific course notifications
- Notification preferences apply just to you. Your account-level preferences apply across all of your courses.
- To adjust preferences for a particular course, click the “view course notifications” button on the course’s home page. These preferences override your account-level preferences, but still only apply to your account.
This article is part of Teaching & Learning's Canvas "How-to" video series.