When are course notifications sent out to students?

Course notifications are sent out to all members of a course. Notifications are sent out when a specific action has been completed which will trigger a notification to be sent out. For instance, if a new graded assignment was created and saved and published all at once, this would trigger a notification to be sent out to members of the course.

Note that before a notification can be sent out, the following conditions must be met:

1. Course must be published.
2. User has not disabled notifications either globally, for the course, or for that particular action.
3. Email address is working and does have a block or spam filter on emails from Instructure.
4. Specific action has been met to trigger the notification.

For default settings and advice on notifications, please review this document from Instructure: Canvas Notifications | Instructure