Alamo Colleges District

Requesting a Change to Your Canvas Display Name

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Canvas offers users a variety of ways to personalize their account profiles, including adding a profile picture, biography, and links to your personal website, blog, or portfolio. You can even edit the settings for your account which allows you to select your personal pronoun to display next to your name in Canvas. Your profile information can be viewed by all users in your courses as long as your instructor has enabled that feature for the course.

The Alamo Colleges District permits users to list their preferred first name in their Canvas display name.

The Canvas display name is what instructors or other students in your class see in discussions, announcements, group work, and communication through Canvas. Your full legal name will still be associated with your full/sortable names on your Canvas profile, but it will only be seen by instructors for the purposes of attendance, Census reporting, and grading. LMS administrators will also be able to see your full name when they access your account to provide technical support.

Please select your classification from the links below and follow the process for requesting a change to your Canvas display name.

To minimize confusion with LMS integrations, District IT allows a user to request a change to their Canvas display name once.

Visit the Canvas Guides for additional information about Canvas profile settings, or contact CanvasSupport@alamo.edu for additional assistance.

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