Customizing Parent Notification Email Templates

[MrsLauraMetz]

The parent email notifications are not helpful with our log in set up to Canvas. When a parent clicks either link at the bottom of their email, they are redirect to our Microsoft single sign on page and the parents don't use that page to log in. I'd like to discuss how we can customize the links at the bottom of the page to help the parents feel like they actually do have access to Canvas as observers. 

[chriscas]

Hi @MrsLauraMetz,

I don't believe you can customize the language of Canvas notifications at all.  If you have multiple login methods (perhaps one for teachers/students and a different one for parents), setting up a discovery page in your authentication settings will help to solve the problem.  Basically you'll create a webpage with all of the different login links your school has (school.instrucure.com/logic/saml, school.instructure.com/login/canvas, etc).  You'll put the URL of that page in as your discovery page, then any time someone clicks a link to Canvas, they'll see that page with the list of login choices if they aren't already logged in to Canvas.

As an example, our discovery page looks like this:

Hope this info helps!

-Chris