Review Your Canvas Settings and Profile

Community is a central component of this class, and seeing each other is one way to develop social presence. Please take a minute to update your Canvas profile information to include a picture or avatar of yourself, and to provide a meaningful bio. To learn more, please read the Canvas Guide: What are Profile and User Settings?

Set Your Canvas Notifications

Canvas offers users the unique ability to customize how and when you would like to receive notifications from the course. You can tailor their notification preferences so that feedback on assignments, grades, and other communication activities within the Canvas course are pushed out to their email or phone.

Watch Canvas Guides: Notifications - to learn more about setup or read notifications.

Announcements

This includes the option of having announcements sent directly to your email or texts, which I strongly suggest.

I will officially begin each week with an announcement, and will occasionally use announcements during a module to remind you of important due dates, events, or supplemental resources.

A few important details about announcements:

The announcements that come to you in email do not have videos and images that may be in the Canvas version of the announcement.
If you need to check a video or an older announcement, all course announcements are archived and can be accessed via the Announcements in the course navigation menu.
When you log-into our course, the most recent announcements will be listed at the top of our course homepage.