Your profile photo will appear when you interact with other users (in items such as Inbox, Discussions etc), changing your profile photo in your Canvas profile will help personalise your course as well as interactions with others on Canvas. You can also customise other basic settings associated with your Canvas account.

To change your photo, you should follow the below steps:

Go to Account on the left-hand menu.
Click the Settings link.
Click the profile picture icon.
Click the Upload a Picture tab, then click the choose a picture link. (You can also drag a picture from your desktop and drop it into the uploader).
Find the image you want to upload and click the Open or Browse button.
Use the selection boxes to crop your image. When you are finished, click the Save button. The Profile picture you selected will show up instead of the placeholder profile picture.

More detailed instructions are also available on this page.

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