COMMUNICATIONS

Communications in Canvas work a little differently than what you may be accustomed to from Blackboard. In Canvas, it is preferred to keep all communication about the course within Canvas. This way you can easily track your conversations with your teachers or your classmates. The inbox is like many social media platforms, and acts as a pipeline, so that you can receive communications about your courses at your chosen destination (e.g text, email, Facebook, twitter) and respond to them from that location. You can have private conversations, or group conversations.

If you keep communications within the course, anyone you send a message to (including your instructor!) will get your message sooner, by their preferred mode of delivery. And you will receive a response at your chosen delivery site--so be sure to set up your notifications... :)

Take a quick peek at the tutorial below, then simply click on the "inbox" to get started with communications.
Inbox_as_pipeline.mp4