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
• 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
• View account-wide global announcements
• Manage your profile

You can also enhance the color contrast in Canvas [3] or log out of Canvas [4].

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, sortable 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
• 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 as a student to share with a parent/observer
• Link a student to your user account as a parent/observer
• Download course content as an offline ePub file

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.

Note: You can only edit your profile if an admin allows profile editing through Account Settings.