Canvas Parent App

Accessing the Canvas Parent App

While accessing Canvas via a web browser will give you the most complete Canvas experience, the free Canvas Parent App enhances the potential for parents and guardians to engage in their children's education. Parents and guardians can review upcoming or past assignments, check on grades, and receive alerts for student activity.

Parents and guardians can use the Canvas Parent App on Android devices using Android 6.0 or later and iOS devices using iOS 12.0 or later.

The Canvas Parent App can be used by any Canvas user with an existing Observer account. Thus, parents and guardians need to create their initial Canvas account via a web browser before they can access the app.

Using the Canvas Parent App

The Courses tab displays the list of courses that their students are enrolled in. For each course, parents and guardians can see course grades, syllabus, assignments, and events. Grades display according to the course grading scheme.

Assignments and events can be viewed by course or week. Parents and guardians can set reminders for a specific assignment or event, which are sent to mobile devices as push notifications.

Parents and guardians can set alerts for specific assignment and grade activity. Alerts are displayed in the Alerts page in the app.

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR the Canvas Parent App

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The webinar to the left was led by Canvas trainers to highlight some of the use cases and functionality of the Canvas Parent App. This goes into a bit more detail than the overview video above.

GETTING HELP WITH the Canvas Parent App