Confirming Your Email Address In Canvas

When creating an account within Canvas, users will be asked to confirm their email address in order to send you notifications which might include messages from faculty or course managers. Below are steps on that process. This ensures that your PSU email is confirmed in Canvas, allowing you to receive those notifications.

1. Log into your Canvas account and select the Account icon

2. Select Settings.

3. On the right side of the page there will be a section titled Ways to Contact with your email address underneath it.

   1. If your email address is confirmed and you do not need to do anything else.

   2. If your email address isn’t confirmed, then you need to select the Notification icon (an exclamation point within a circle) next to your email address so that it sends a confirmation email.

4. Once you select the notification icon, a pop-up a box that will email a confirmation link to your email. 

5. Select Ok, Thanks.

6. Open your email and find the confirmation email. 

7. Select Click here to confirm this registration.

   1. Once you return to Canvas, you may receive an Unauthorized error, but you can disregard this. 

   2. Within your account settings, verify that your email address matches the account that you would prefer email notifications sent to.

8. If it does, your email is confirmed and you should now receive Canvas notifications from your desired notification settings.