Profiles give students the ability to add information about themselves (ex: Bio, Website, etc.) that will be visible to the people (students and instructors) in their courses. Because other people in your courses will be able to see anything you post on your profile page, please be cautious about the personal information you share on your profile.
Notification Preferences allows you to select how and when you want to be notified when various events occur within your course, such as a grades, change in a due date, an updated assignment, or a message sent from within Canvas.
Canvas supports notification through e-mail, SMS text message, Twitter, and Facebook. Canvas users can choose to receive notification alerts immediately, daily, weekly, or never.
In Canvas each student has a place where they can upload their own personal files. These files are visible only to the student; instructors and other students cannot see them. Students may also use this personal storage space to upload rough drafts of assignments that are not ready to be submitted yet, or save extra files that they might want access to at a later time.
Important Note: Each student has 1 GB of file space for their personal files in Canvas. Most people never get close to using this much, but if you are trying to upload a file and have problems, check to make sure you have not reached your maximum amount.
To learn more about how to access and use your personal files, see the following video.
Canvas allows you to add other ways to receive notifications about course updates, announcements, etc., in addition to your Richland Student E-mail (Zimbra). You can add another e-mail address, or set up to receive text messages.
Canvas is integrated with a number of third party Web services like Google Docs, Facebook, & Twitter. Most of these services can be configured from your User Profile page. Registering other Web services with Canvas creates different ways to be contacted.