Conversations is the messaging tool used inside of Canvas to communicate with a course, a group, an individual student, or a group of students. You can communicate with other people in your course or institution at any time.

When you receive a new message in a conversation, you are automatically notified of that message base on your personal notification preferences. This means you may start a conversation from your computer in Canvas, your student may then receive a notification of the new message on a text message, email, twitter private message, push notification from the mobile app, and of course inside Canvas.

Helpful Guides

How do I use Conversations?
How do I compose and send a message?
How do I attach media to a Conversation?
How do I reply to an assignment submission comment using Conversations?
Video: About Notification Preferences.
More Information About Conversations.

Things to Try

Send a message to someone using Conversations
Attach a file to a message
Attach media to a message
View and start a conversation on your mobile device