What are Profile and User Settings?
Profile and User Settings are user account options that let you control your personal information in Canvas.
To learn more about managing profile and user settings, watch the User Settings video.
You can also learn more about managing profile and user settings in lessons for students, lessons for instructors, and lessons for observers/parents.
Note: Your institution may restrict one or more settings options.
What can I do in my user account?
In Global Navigation, you can click the Account link [1], then use the Account Navigation links [2] to do any of the following:
- Manage notification settings as an instructor, as a student, or as an observer/parent
- Upload personal files
- Access user account settings
- Create and manage ePortfolios of your course work
- Preview and import content shared with you
- Share a QR code for logging into the Canvas mobile app as an instructor, as a student, or as an observer/parent
- View account-wide global announcements as an instructor, as a student, or as an observer/parent
- Manage your profile
You can also enhance the color contrast in Canvas [3] or log out of Canvas [4].
When would I use my user settings?
Depending on your user role, you can click the Settings link to:
- View and edit your user settings, such as your full name, display name, personal pronouns, language preference, and time zone
- Add or change your profile picture
- Change your default email address or add an additional email address for notifications
- Change your password as an instructor, as a student, or as an observer/parent
- Set up multi-factor authentication for added account security
- Connect to and manage web services outside of Canvas such as Google Drive
- Manage user feature options, such as celebration animations (confetti)
- Manage approved integrations (third-party applications that are authorized to access Canvas through API access tokens)
- Download your assignment submissions from current and previous courses as a student
- Generate a pairing code to share with a parent/observer as a student
- Link a student to your user account as a parent/observer
- Download course content as an ePub file
When would I use my profile?
If your institution has enabled the Profiles feature, you can do the following:
- Add profile information such as a biography and custom links
- View profile information for other users
- View your enrollments
- View enrollments you share with other users
Learn more about editing your profile as an instructor, as a student, or as an observer/parent.
Note: You can only edit your profile if an admin allows profiled editing through Account Settings.
