Send Email (Conversations) in Canvas

Email messages are known in Canvas as "Conversations." Conversations can be found in the Canvas Global Navigation "Inbox" label. Composing emails to a participant in a course requires the course to be published first. In order to receive notifications for new email messages, the "Conversation Message" notification in "Account - Notifications" must be turned on. This is controlled at the user level, and therefore it is recommended that all Canvas users leave the Notifications settings at their defaults.  Conversations are internal to Canvas, therefore email can only be sent to participants within your courses.

 

 

• In Global Navigation, click the Inbox link.

• Click the Compose icon.

• In the Courses drop-down menu, select the course where you want to send your message. You can filter your courses by current favorite courses [1] or more courses [2].

  Note: When filtering by Concluded Courses [3], you can only reply to messages sent to you. You cannot send a new message to a user.

• To add a user, you can search for the user in the To field [1] or you can use the Course Roster [2].

• In the subject line field [1], enter a subject line for your message.

  If you are sending your message to multiple users, but you do not want each user to see who else was included in the message, click the Send an individual message to each recipient checkbox [2]. If your message includes over 100 recipients (including you as the sender), this checkbox will be selected by default.

• In the message field [3], type your message. All content is sent in plain text. Note that if you include a URL in your message, the URL will automatically become a clickable link after you send the message.

  If you want to include an attachment or media file, click the attachment or media file icons [4].

  When you are finished, click the Send button [5].

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