TILLING THE SOIL

The Canvas Parent App enhances the potential for parents and guardians to engage in their children's education. Parents and guardians can review upcoming or past assignments, check on grades, and receive alerts for student activity.

Parents and guardians can use the Canvas Parent App on Android devices using Android 6.0 or later and iOS devices using iOS 12.0 or later.

The Canvas Parent App can be used by any Canvas user with an existing Observer account. Thus, parents and guardians need to create their initial Canvas account via a web browser before they can access the app.

As a teacher, the more you can encourage your students' parents and guardians to use the Canvas Parent App to stay engaged in their children's education, the better. You are encouraged to share the information from the page below with your students' parents and guardians .

PLANTING AND PRUNING

Please begin by watching the video below, which is also available at this link, which you can share with your students' parents and guardians.

The Courses tab displays the list of courses that their students are enrolled in. For each course, parents and guardians can see course grades, syllabus, assignments, and events. Grades display according to the course grading scheme.

Assignments and events can be viewed by course or week. Parents and guardians can set reminders for a specific assignment or event, which are sent to mobile devices as push notifications.

Parents and guardians can set alerts for specific assignment and grade activity. Alerts are displayed in the Alerts page in the app.

DIGGING DEEPER

Need more information? Check out these Canvas Guides!