How to Adjust Notifications on the Canvas Parent App

If you don’t have a parent account be sure to call your students’ school or email your students’ teacher for a Canvas Pairing Code. Then create a parent account by going to elkhart.instructure.com and click on “Parent of a Canvas User”.

Open User Menu

Open the Canvas Parent App. In the Dashboard, tap the Menu icon.

Open Manage Students

Tap the Manage Students link.

Open Student Alert Page

Tap the name of your student.

Set Alerts

You can enable or disable missing assignment, course announcement, and institution announcement alerts. To manage a toggle alert, tap the alert toggle button [1].

You can also receive course and assignment grade alerts. To manage grade alerts, tap the grade criteria link [2].

Set Grade Percentage Criteria

Enter a number in the Percentage field [1]. Then tap the Save link [2].

Note: You can disable a grade percentage alert by re-opening the alert and tapping the Never link [3].