Tech Tips

You can change your notifications in Canvas at the course level, so that you receive useful notifications about actions in any of your courses. You can customize your notifications in a number of ways, so that you get an email when your grades are posted or new materials are added to the course.

The Canvas Resource Site’s calendar feature – on your left-hand Global Navigation menu ­– is a great tool to manage all of your course meeting times and due dates in one place. Students can use the calendar to view their upcoming course events and assignments. They can also create personal events such as study groups.

The Canvas Resource Site is a great first stop any time you have a question about how to use Canvas for your courses. There are loads of documentation on features there, and links to access help if you need more assistance.

Your course lectures and recorded live sessions are available for you to watch any time once they are released. It can be very useful to watch your course videos from the full screen Media Library view. From either the Modules or the Media Library tab, you can click on the arrow icon (pointing up and right) at the bottom of any video screen in order to watch videos from the Media Library view. This will provide a larger viewing screen, transcripts, the option to bookmark moments in the video, the ability to take notes while watching, and allow you to leave public comments on the videos. You can also search from this view, and the tool will search both the presentation and spoken content for your terms. If you are having any trouble watching videos from your Media Library, you can see some instructions to get logged in properly here.

Course lectures and recorded live sessions are available to watch once they are released. Watching from the full screen Media Library view will provide transcripts, the option to bookmark moments, the ability to take notes, and allow you to leave public comments on the videos. You can also search the presentation and spoken content for your terms.

Learn more: Authorizing Embedded Media Library (Panopto) Videos to View in Canvas (Student Guide).