One of the more basic functions of an LMS is to facilitate various types of communication between instructors and students. Below are a few tips for using the Conversations tool, also known as Inbox, in Canvas.
- Publish your course before trying to message students.
- Prior to the first day of the semester, you will also need to adjust your course settings so that the start date of your course is prior to the day you wish to send the message. You will need to check the box under the Start/End dates to select “Users can only participate in the course between these dates.”
- SVCC Canvas courses will conclude on the last day of final exams each semester; instructors cannot message students from the course after the course has concluded.
- If a student replies to an email notification, attachments will be stripped from the reply as it is passed back to Canvas. Please make students aware of this, and set up Assignment dropboxes in your course for students to send important files.
· See the following Canvas guides for step-by-step
instructions for using the Inbox.
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