Objective: Understand various Canvas notifications.

Notes: Notifications can be modified by type in your settings. 

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Helpful notifications for teachers to use include:

• All Submissions to notify you when assignments are submitted or resubmitted.
• Late Grading to notify you when an assignment is turned in late.
• Discussion Post to notify you when a new discussion post is submitted in a topic you're subscribed to.
• Conversation Message to notify you when you've received a message in your Inbox.

Course Activities

• Due Date - notifies you when an assignment due date changes.
• Grade Policies - notifies you when a course grade policy changes.
  • Ex: change in assignment group grade weight or change in gradebook total point method
    (percentage versus point value).
• Course Content - notifies you when changes are made to course content, including page, assignment and quiz content.
  • If a user changes course content and checks the box to Notify users that this content has changed, users will receive a notification regardless of what they've selected here.
• Files - notifies you when a new file is added to your course.
  • If the Files tab is disabled within a course, students will not receive this notification.
• Announcement - notifies you when a new announcement is made in your course or group.
• Announcement Created By You - notifies you when you create a new announcement in a course or group.
  • If you allow replies to announcements, a notification will be sent for those replies.
• Grading - notifies you when grade changes are made in your course. 
  • Ex: entering or changing a submission grade and posting an assignment grade.
• Invitation - notifies you when you're invited to web conferences, collaborations, groups and peer reviews.
• All Submissions - notifies you when assignments (excluding quizzes) are submitted and resubmitted.
• Late Grading - notifies you when an assignment is submitted late.
• Submission Comment - notifies you when a submission comment has been added to an assignment.
• Blueprint Sync - notifies you when content is synced from a blueprint course to associated courses.
  • This notification is only enabled for schools using the Blueprint Course feature.

Discussions

• Discussion - notifies you when a new discussion topic is created in your course.
• Discussion Post - notifies you when a new discussion post is made in a discussion you're subscribed to.

Conversations

• Added To Conversation - notifies you when you're added to a conversation in your Inbox.
• Conversation Message - notifies you when you've received a message in your Inbox.
• Conversations Created By Me - notifies you when you created a conversation in your Inbox.

Scheduling

• Student Appointment Signups - notifies you when a student signs up for an appointment in Scheduler.
• Appointment Signups - notifies you when a user is signed up for an appointment by another user.
• Appointment Cancellations - notifies you when appointments are cancelled.
• Appointment Availability - notifies you when there is a change to appointment slots.
• Calendar - notifies you when there are new or changed Calendar events.

Groups

• Membership Update - notifies you when users are added to groups or users enroll in courses.

Alerts

• Administrative Notifications - notifies you when administrative tasks are completed.
  • Ex: report is generated, course exported, and new account users are created.

Conferences

• Recording Ready - notifies you when a conference recording is ready to view.