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Canvas Accessibility Features
Canvas Accessibility Features
Canvas is our district’s Learning Management System, a platform where students can access class materials, complete assignments, and communicate with teachers. To ensure every student can thrive, Canvas includes a range of accessibility features, making it easier for students with diverse needs to engage with their learning. On this page, you’ll find information about these features and tips on how your child can use them effectively.
Canvas Immersive Reader Tool
Canvas Immersive Reader Tool
What is Immersive Reader?
What is Immersive Reader?
Immersive Reader is a learning tool that uses proven techniques to improve reading for people, regardless of their age or ability. Key features include "read text out loud," "break it into syllables," and "increase spacing between lines and letters." It offers text-decoding solutions for students with learning differences such as dyslexia, and it encourages independent reading and helps teachers support students’ unique learning needs.
How to Use Immersive Reader in Canvas
How to Use Immersive Reader in Canvas
When viewing pages, assignments, course home pages, and the syllabus in Canvas, open the Immersive Reader by clicking the Immersive Reader button.
View Immersive Reader
View Immersive Reader
Canvas Pages store educational resources that can include text, video, links to files, and other content.
You can manage text, grammar, and reading preferences using the toolbar [1]. To expand the reader display, click the Full Screen button [2].
To hear the page text read aloud, click the Play button [3]. To adjust audio settings, click the Voice Settings button [4].
To close the reader and return to Canvas, click the Exit button [5].
Canvas User Settings
Canvas User Settings
Some Canvas features are optional and can be turned on or off in the user settings. Students may choose to turn on the following features to support their learning needs. These settings can be accessed through the User Account Settings in the Global Navigation Menu.
Canvas Notification Settings
Canvas Notification Settings
Access your Notification Settings through the Account link in your Global Navigation Menu. When you open your Notification Settings, you will notice that there are default preferences already selected for you. You can change these options to meet your needs. Note: These settings apply only to you; all users can set their own notification preferences.
If you change a setting, the change is made immediately to your account. Notification settings apply to all of your courses unless you set notification settings for individual courses.
View Account Notification Settings
View Account Notification Settings
On the Account Notification page, a banner describes the settings you are managing, another banner indicates the times when daily and weekly notifications will be delivered. To dismiss a banner message, click the Close icon in the top right corner. By default, the Settings for drop-down menu displays the Account option . Account-level notification settings apply to all of your Canvas courses; however, any course-specific notification settings override account notification settings.
Manage Email Notification Frequency
Manage Email Notification Frequency
Each notification is set to a default setting. To change a notification for a contact method, locate the notification and click the icon for the contact method [1].
To receive a notification right away, select the Notify immediately option [2]. These notifications may be delayed by up to one hour in case an instructor makes additional changes, which prevents you from being spammed by multiple notifications in a short amount of time.
To receive a daily notification, select the Daily summary option [3]. The date and time of your daily notifications are posted in a banner at the top of the Notification Settings page.
To receive a weekly notification, select the Weekly summary option [4]. The date and time of your weekly notifications are posted in a banner at the top of the Notification Settings page.
If you do not want to receive a notification, select the Notifications off option [5].
Unsupported notification types display the Unsupported icon [6]. You cannot manage unsupported notifications.
Set Push Notifications
Set Push Notifications
If you have enabled push notifications in the Canvas Student mobile app on an Android device or on an iOS device, you can manage your settings in the Push Notification column. Push notifications can only be sent to your mobile device right away or not at all. Daily and weekly notification options are not supported.
Some categories include limited availability for push notifications. For full details about supported notifications for push notifications, refer to the Canvas Notifications resource document. Note: Managing notification settings inside the Canvas Student mobile app will override settings selected in the Notification Settings page of the browser version of Canvas.
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