Diving into Mythology

Pinterest is such a cool website, if you have never been on the website you should definitely go check it out! I have been using pinterest for about two years now so I am pretty familiar with searching for different things and pinning things to different boards. One of my favorite things to search for is dinner recipes. There are so many easy things to make that show you step by step instructions on how to make them. I have a bunch of recipes under a board a named "food". There is so many different topics you can research on pinterest from educational to fashion. I can spend hours browsing through pages of pictures.

Before reading the information about configuring canvas notifications, I had already personalized them for my liking. What I like about canvas is you could have the notification text you or email you. Also, it is very easy to personalize what you like to get notified about. For me I have my canvas notifications only emailing me when grades are put into the grade book. I know some people like to set it where it reminds them when assignments are due and all of that, but I like to keep my email pretty clean and not full of canvas notifications! If you haven't looked into customizing your notifications on canvas, you definitely should.

Customizing your canvas profile is something that I suggest everyone to do. The reason I did it is because I saw one of my peer's tech tip on it and decided to look into what all you can do. The main thing that I did was change my canvas picture to an updated picture of me. I feel like this is really helpful for the professors who use the canvas site in order to get to know their students. Also, this my peers are able to see this image when click on the students in the class. I kept my display name the same because I only go by one name. However, this is a nice feature for people who go by their middle name or nick name! Overall, I think canvas is an awesome site and everyone should explore it a little bit.

Ever since the University started to use canvas, I have been exploring it and figuring out all of the details behind the dashboard page. One thing that I have done that has really helped me is changed the color card of my courses to match up with the color I write with in my planner for my course. This helped me to stay very organized and not mix up my classes and due dates. The tech tip did teach me that I can turn off the color on the cards that have an image. I did not know this and will be doing this right away. Overall, canvas dashboard is pretty easy to work. It also allows you to customize your dashboard, which I really like.

The canvas mobile app is actually very convenient, especially for a busy college student. I have actually had the canvas app downloaded since OU switched from D2L to canvas. I would say I use this app mainly for checking my recently recorded grades. I also use this app a lot when I decide I want to go to office hours or action center and I forget the time and room number. It is very easy to pull up class syllabi and look up all the information you need. I also think that the canvas app is very well designed. I will continue to use the app until I no longer need it anymore!