How can I search my sent emails for a specific email or email topic?

[ColtonSwapp · Accepted solution]

Hello @DeborahToscano 

When you say 'Email' are you talking about the Canvas Inbox? Or specifically about your school specific email system outside of Canvas? 

• For the Canvas inbox, you can use the search feature to filter by user names, or subjects pertaining to the inbox message. 
• The inbox on Canvas also allows you to search by filters such as Favorite courses, course you have not favorited, Concluded courses, groups, unread, Starred, Sent, and Archived. 

If it is with your institutional email, you would want to check with their helpdesk or IT team to see if they have any specific information on this. 

Hopefully this helps! 

-Colton

[DeborahToscano]

Hi @ColtonSwapp 

Thank you so much for the response and links. I did learn a few things about the functions in Canvas' email that I did not know. However, I didn't see anything about searching or filtering by subject or topic. Perhaps that is not possible? 

Thanks again, 

Deborah 

[Ron_Bowman]

@DeborahToscano 

I am with you.  The canvas inbox is easy enough to search by student.  However, I would like to know how you search by subject or topic as @ColtonSwapp indicated.

I checked the manual and did not see that particular featured covered anywhere.  

the inbox is one of the top things I do not like about Canvas.  It is such a pain to use effectively.  Searching for a particular subject being one of them.  So, I am really looking forward to what @ColtonSwapp has in the way of an explanation.  A link to the manual page would be nice as well.