Notification Annoyances
Ecampus is a great way for those who work full time, parents wanting to further their education, and those who have a harder time learning in a class room environment. Our phones are part of most daily tasks, the luxury of having your education at your fingertips is a great convenience, yet can be overwhelming with all the notifications and alerts.
The Canvas mobile app is a great tool to be able to not only access your classes but to connect with your professor and communicate with your classmates. It can be very useful to check in on due dates, quizzes, and stay up to date on reading. Although there can be some issues with always being connected. Depending on the way professors have the classes set up you can get notifications for many different things.
(Main page on Canvas) (Specific Class Layout)
Discussion Boards
Are a platform where the professor can state a topic they would like you to discuss, then students have the ability to post and communicate in that designated area.
Discussion boards can be very useful to communicate, the problem is the minute you post in one you are automatically registered to receive notifications. If you un-register for the notifications, the minute you comment it re-registers you. This can be very annoying, you shouldn’t have to continue to update your notifications.
Announcements
The announcement page is where the professor can update you on things that arise during the term.
I think it is important to be able to get notification for the announcements, but if you don’t have the notification on then you will not get those. I think it would be helpful if that notification was either automatically on or you can’t turn it off. The announcements are important for schedule changes, helpful tips from professors, or possibly just informing you of something important.
Grades
The grades tab is a where you can find your individual grades for each assignment, quiz or your total grade for the class.
The grades notification is the one I personally really like. Students can turn that notification on, it will alert when something has been graded. Although some students don’t like it because when they receive the notification, they may get upset by the grade itself or may affect the way your day is going.
Helpful Hints
- In the settings on the app you can edit some of the notifications. Most are not controllable by the student and are for the educator but the ones you can adjust are helpful.
- Editing the app in your phone settings can also be helpful and give you more control over what you are receiving.
- Making sure if you respond to discussion boards you unsubscribe right after so you don’t get overwhelmed with notification.
- Change the settings on canvas so you only receive emails about notifications instead of receiving them on your phone.
