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You can select when you would like to receive notifications from Canvas (immediately, daily, weekly, or none). Listed below are UWF's recommended notification settings.

Please note: As of May 2, 2020, Canvas will only allow users to enable SMS Notifications for announcements and grading.
We highly encourage users to transition to the Canvas Mobile App for push notifications as these notification types are more consistent and reliable.

Keep in mind:

These settings are applied to all courses and organizations across Canvas; you cannot adjust notification settings for an individual course or organization.
If you are forwarding your emails to another email account, these addresses MUST be added to your Canvas account in order to successfully reply to a Canvas email notification using that email account. Otherwise, your reply won't actually send.
If there is a Canvas organization or an old class that you no longer want to receive notifications from, you can disable all notifications for that course or organization. We do not recommend switching off notifications for any courses that you are currently taking otherwise you may miss important information from your instructors.

We strongly recommend that you select the following settings for your Canvas notifications:

COURSE ACTIVITIES
	Email Notification	Push Notification
Due Date	Immediately	On
Grading Policies	Send weekly summary OR do not send me anything	Off
Course Content	Send daily summary	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
Files	Send daily summary	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
Announcement	Immediately	On
Announcement created by you	Immediately	On
Grading	At your discretion: choose your preferred option	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
Invitation	Immediately	On
Submission Comment	At your discretion: choose your preferred option	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
DISCUSSIONS
	Email Notification	Push Notification
Discussion	Distance students: Immediately, or send daily summary Face-to-face students: send daily summary	Distance students: On Face-to-face students: At your discretion - choose your preferred option
Discussion Post	Distance students: Immediately Face-to-face students: Immediately, or send daily summary	Distance students: At your discretion - choose your preferred option Face-to-face students: At your discretion - choose your preferred option
CONVERSATIONS
	Email Notification	Push Notification>
Added to conversation	Immediately	On
Conversation message	Immediately	On
Conversations created by me	Immediately	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
SCHEDULING
	Email Notification	Push Notification
Appointment signups	At your discretion: choose your preferred option	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
Appointment cancellations	At your discretion: choose your preferred option	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
Appointment availability	At your discretion: choose your preferred option	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
Calendar	Immediately, or send daily summary	At your discretion: choose your preferred option
CONFERENCES
	Email Notification	Push Notification
Recording ready	Send daily digest	Off
ALERTS
	Email Notification	Push Notification
Global Announcements	Immediately	On

Only announcement and grading notifications can trigger SMS notifications. For more information about what each of these notification preferences entails, see Canvas's Notification Preferences PDF.

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