Many faculty want to receive an emailed copy of messages they send out to students. You can turn this feature on and off from the Notifications settings in your Canvas Account area.
Account level notifications apply to all your courses.
If you want your students to be able to track their progress in your course, Canvas allows you to set up requirements in your modules.
Faculty can set up a “drop-box” style Assignment so that students may turn in a Google Doc or Drive file as their submission.
When you create a new Discussion in your course you are subscribed to it automatically. Being subscribed to a Discussion forum means being notified every time there is a new post added to the forum.
If you try to upload files and are not able to do so, you may have reached your storage limit. Your Canvas course has 1GB of file storage space, plenty of room for lots of files; however, a few very large files may easily fill your course quota pretty fast.
The default time zone in Canvas is the Central Time Zone. This means that when a totally new user views dates and times generated through Canvas tools like Due Dates in Assignments or in the Calendar—they will view these times as they appear in the Central Time Zone.
