One benefit of your Canvas Observer Account is its accessibility. The mobile app allows you to access basic information from your smart phone or tablet. You can also use a url address to access the browser version of your account. For some functions, the browser is required. One of these is the setting of your Notifications, which will alert you (via email) to selected actions in Canvas.

Before you begin to use Canvas, you need to change your Notification settings. By default, Notifications are turned on. If you don't turn off some (most!) of these Notifications, you will be overwhelmed with emails. Don't let this happen to you!

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Considerations

Less is more! You can determine your own schedule (maybe with your student!) for Canvas viewing. Notifications provide additional alerts that something has changed in one of your student's classes. Most of these things are not important or even interesting for you to know.
Decide whether to have these notifications sent immediately, daily (at 6:00 pm), or weekly. You may also add an email for notifications in your Settings. Unlike Goldilocks, you can always come back to change your settings if you find that your initial selections are not just right.
Additional information on notifications can be found at the links below:

Canvas Notification Preferences as an Observer

Adding Contact Methods to Receive Notifications

If you would like more detailed explanations of each of these notifications you can find that here .
Se puede encontrar más información sobre preferencias sobre notificación en estos enlaces:

Preferencias de notificación de Lienzo como observador

Agregando métodos de contacto para recibir notificaciones