Canvas

Canvas notifications can be personalised based on your individual preferences. You can choose for Canvas to send personalised notifications as email or text message alerts so you don't miss out on important course information and keep track of updates or activity from each of your courses, such as, due dates, announcements and grades.

Your notification preferences will determine:

• What Canvas notifies you about 
• When it will notify you and how often 
• How Canvas updates you - via email, text message or both. 

It’s important you understand how to manage Canvas notifications to ensure you receive important messages quickly, while limiting others to avoid being inundated. 

How to set up your notification settings

The table below shows the types of Canvas notifications that exist, and how RMIT recommends you set up your notification preferences.

Change your notification preferences by logging in to Canvas, then, in the left-hand navigation menu, click Account > Settings > Notifications.

Check out this Canvas Community post for more information about notifications.

Please note: these settings apply to all your courses. If you would like to set your notifications for individual courses, you can find out how by watching this course-level notification preferences instruction Canvas video.

Recommended notification settings

Can I change my notification settings from the recommended settings?

Yes, the above information is a recommendation only. You can change your notification settings at any time. It is each student’s responsibility to ensure the settings are appropriate for their course.

Courses should appear in Canvas seven days before the officiual course start date. If your course has already started, it will appear in Canvas 24 hours after you add it in Enrolment Online. 

If you can’t see your course on your Canvas dashboard, click on Courses in the navigation panel to the left of your dashboard. Scroll down and select All courses at the bottom. If your missing course is in the All courses list, click on the star symbol next to it to make it appear on the dashboard. 

If you still can’t see your course, this might be because it's still being prepared. Your teachers have been working hard to get your course content ready. It’s a big process, so we are being careful to make sure we get it right, but rest assured, they’ll be up there soon.

If you have any concerns about your course not being on Canvas, then please contact your teacher/Course Coordinator.

If you need technical support, there is a 24/7 live chat function available in the navigation bar under Help > Canvas Support on your Canvas dashboard.

Add an image and fill out your profile so that teachers and other students can quickly identify you in course discussions.

You can also check your ‘Display name’ in Canvas (under ‘Settings’) reflects your preferred name and update this if desired. Learn more about Canvas and your preferred name at Update your personal details.

Find each of your course assignments by going to your Canvas Dashboard, clicking on a course, then selecting Assignments. Familiarise yourself with your assignments and when they’re due.

Please note: normally, you can submit your assignment an unlimited number of times up to the due date (there will be a 24-hour delay if you resubmit more than three times). However, your instructor may choose to limit the number of times you can submit an assignment. Limiting the number of submissions applies to all students who must complete the assignment.

Download the Canvas Student app via the App Store or Google Play Store for mobile devices and allow notifications. This is important as teachers may communicate room changes to you through Canvas announcements.

Turnitin will accept the following file types:

• Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx)
• OpenOffice (.odt)
• Google Docs via Google Drive
• WordPerfect (.wpd)
• PostScript (.ps/.eps)
• Adobe PDF (.pdf)
• Rich text format (.rtf)
• Plain text (.txt)
• Hangul Word Processor file (.hwp)
  
• HTML

Files can be submitted directly from your computer or via non-RMIT Google Drive or Dropbox accounts. You will need to log-in to these services to authorise the submission.

The assignment being submitted must contain more than 20 words, must be under 40MB, must not exceed 400 pages in length, and must not contain spaces in between every letter.

1. Log in to Canvas and select the course you want from your Dashboard
2. Navigate to Assignments from the course navigation menu on the left of your screen
3. Click the relevant assignment
4. Click Submit assignment
5. Click Choose file, find the file you wish to upload from the pop-up box that appears. Double click or click Open to select the file. If you have multiple files to upload, then click on + Add another file
6. If you have any comments relevant to the assignment, then enter them in the comments box
7. Check that the file and its details and everything you have entered is correct
8. Check the submission pledge box to acknowledge that the submission you’ve just uploaded is your own, original work
9. Click Submit.

You can resubmit an assignment using the same steps listed under Submitting an assignment (see above). Resubmitting your assignment will replace the original submission with the new file. 

By default, assignments can be submitted an unlimited number of times in Canvas. However, your teacher/Course Coordinator can choose to limit the number of times you can submit an assignment. If there is a limit applied, the number of attempts is displayed on the assignments page. Limiting the number of attempts applies to all students assigned to the assignment.

When you submit an assignment, Turnitin generates an originality report by scanning your work and comparing the text against sources in its database. The report shows where matches have been found with an overall percentage of how much of the text is original. Your submitted assignment is also added to the database to reduce plagiarism.

If your teacher has provided access for you to view the Similarity Report, you can view your assignment's 'similarity score' from the View/Complete link for the assignment. To view your submission click on the View button on the Assignment Inbox page. Your Turnitin Paper will open in Feedback Studio in a new window.

A Turnitin digital receipt confirming your submission will be available from Turnitin for download. The digital receipt contains the file name, assignment title, author, date and time the assignment was submitted.

To download your digital receipt, click the download button in the submission tools area of the Turnitin toolbar. In the pop-up that appears, select Digital receipt. 

More information on how to obtain your digital receipt is available in the Navigating Turnitin Student Guide (PDF, 412 KB).