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Change Your Display Name in Canvas

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Canvas allows you to update your account information and change your display name, which is how your name will be displayed to other Canvas users in announcements, Inbox messages, and discussion posts and replies.

To change your display name:

  1. In the global navigation menu, click Account. A pop-out menu will open.
  2. Click Settings. A page that displays your Canvas user settings will open.

Setting highlighted in the Accounts menu.

  1. Click Edit Settings in the Ways to Contact sidebar, which will appear on the right side of the page if you have a larger browser window or at the bottom of the page if you have a smaller one.

Edit Settings highlighted in the sidebar.

  1. Type your name in the Display Name field.
  2. Click Update Settings. Your new display name will now appear in your Canvas user settings.

Display Name text field populated and Update Settings highlighted.

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