Setting your notifications

The Notifications tool enables you to:

• Receive instant notifications about course activity, such as grades, new discussion posts, upcoming quizzes, dropboxes, and news items. You can also choose to receive instant notifications about ePortfolio feedback and subscription activity.
• Subscribe to a summary of activity for each course and receive a daily email about quizzes, dropboxes, and discussion posts.
• Specify your preferred email address and mobile number for instant notifications. You can choose a different email address than your system email address.

Table of contents

1. Access the Notifications tool
2. Set up an email contact method
3. Set up a mobile contact method
4. Subscribe to a summary of activity
5. Subscribe to instant notifications
6. Exclude courses from notifications
7. Restore excluded course notifications

Access the Notifications tool

Do one of the following:

• Click Notifications from your personal menu on the minibar.
• Click Notifications in the Announcements widget menu.
• Click Notifications in the My Settings widget.

Set up an email contact method

1. Click Change your email settings.
2. Select to Use system email or Use custom email, and enter the custom email address in the box.
3. Click Save.

Set up a mobile contact method

1. Click Register your mobile on the Notifications page.
2. Select your Country, your Mobile Carrier, and enter your Mobile Number in the form.
3. Click Save.
4. After you receive a registration confirmation code on your mobile device, enter it in the Confirmation Code field.
5. Click Confirm.

Note  Some mobile carriers will not allow a confirmation code to be sent in order to complete mobile registration.  If you are having difficulties setting up your mobile notifications, please read this article.

Subscribe to a summary of activity

Note  You must set up your email contact method on the Notifications page to subscribe to a summary of activity.

1. On the Notifications page, select the delivery frequency you want from the How often? drop-down list.
2. Select when you want to receive your summary from the At what time? drop-down list.
3. Click Save.

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Subscribe to instant notifications

1. On the Notifications page, enable instant notifications for specific course activity and updates by doing any of the following:
   • Select the Email check box to enable email notifications.
   • Select the SMS check box to enable SMS notifications.
2. Click Save.

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Exclude courses from notifications

1. Click Manage my course exclusions in the Exclude Some Courses section on the Notifications page.
2. Click the Exclude icon beside each course you want to exclude, or click Exclude All Courses to stop all course notifications. You can also use the Search field to find the course you want to exclude.
3. Click Close.
4. Click Save.

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Restore excluded course notifications

1. Click the Manage my course exclusions link in the Exclude Some Courses section on the Notifications page.
2. Click the Restart notifications icon beside each course you want to receive notifications from, or click Restore excluded courses to restore all excluded courses. You can also use the Search field to find the course you want to restore.
3. Click Close.
4. Click Save.

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