Google Apps for Education provides an Institution Email Account to those institutions participating in the program. To learn more, visit the website. This lesson goes through the steps on how to subscribe to the Calendar Feed in Canvas using Gmail via Google Apps for Education.

Once you click the Calendar Feed link, copy the link and paste it into any calendar app that takes iCal feeds.

Starring Conversations allows you to see important messages at a glance.

You can filter the Conversations in your Inbox for easier organization, especially if you are enrolled in multiple courses. Filtering Conversations allow you to selectively view Conversations based on who is involved.

You can delete Conversations from your Inbox when you no longer need them.

You can only add new people to an existing Conversation with three or more people involved and if the This is a group conversation... checkbox was selected when the Conversation is first created.

Archive old messages to hide them from the Inbox and clean things up a bit.

You can delete individual messages within a Conversation in Canvas.