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What Are Notifications?
Users can select On your activity stream's Notification Settings panel, you can choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your Original and Ultra courses:
- Activity stream: Choose which activities appear on your Stream page.
- Email: If you want to receive email notifications
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General Notification Settings
This page displays:
Edit General Settings: Defines the general notification settings such as email format and reminder schedule for courses and organizations.
Edit Individual Course Settings: Displays the current notification settings for courses in which a user is enrolled. Changes to the notification settings for a specific course can be made.
Bulk Edit Notification Settings: Select a set of courses or organizations to update and change the notification settings for them in one step.
Edit Individual Organization Settings: Displays the current notification settings for organizations in which a user is enrolled. Changes to the notification settings for a specific organization can be made.
Choose Email Notification Type
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Decide Upon Notifications and Email Notifications
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About the Notifications Dashboard
The notifications dashboard is available as a sub tab of the Blackboard @ SU
The Notifications Dashboard contains four basic modules that give information to users based on their enrollment and their role in the system. Users with multiple enrollments will receive information in modules for all their classes and organizations. Users can navigate to individual items to take action.
For all users, each Course contains a Notification Dashboard specific to that Course.
The page displays these modules:
Needs Attention: Displays all items in a course that require some type of interaction. Instructors, TAs, and Graders see assignments, tests, and surveys that have been submitted.
Alerts: Displays past due and early warning notifications for all courses. Instructors, TAs, and Graders see the users in each course that have past due items and who have generated early warning messages. Links are provided to email students and view early warning system rules. Students see any assignments, tests, or other items that are past due and any early warning messages received.
What's New: Displays a list of new items in all relevant courses and organizations. Instructors, TAs, and Graders see any new assignments that have been submitted, tests that have been submitted, new discussion board posts. Students see new discussion board posts, new grades posted, new content that is available.
To Do: Displays the status (Past Due/Due) of relevant course work and tasks. Students see any grade items that have listed due dates in two categories, what is past due and what is due in the future. Links to relevant course items are provided.
Mobile Column
There is a column for mobile in the notifications settings. This controls a yet to be released feature that will push notifications to your phone. For now this option has no effect even if enabled.
Sources and Relevant Links
- , add an email address to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.
- SMS: If you want to receive SMS text messages on your mobile phone, add a phone number to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.
- Push notifications: Messages pop up on your mobile device if you have the Blackboard app for students installed. You can select which notifications are sent to your device.
Choose how and when you get notifications
You can choose the types of notifications you receive and how they're delivered to you.
On your Activity Stream page, select the Stream Settings icon to open the Notification Settings panel. You can also access these settings from your profile page.
Stream notifications
You can control which activity appears in your stream. Select the Stream Notification Settings tab to open the panel.
Notifications for due dates, grades, and feedback always appear in your stream.
Choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your Original and Ultra courses:
- Institution announcements
- Course announcements
- Graded items due
- Graded item due soon
- Graded item past due
- New content
- Assessment added
- Content added
- Grades posted
- New discussion
- My grades and activity
- No recent activity
- Grade low or at risk
- Grade dropped
- Low course activity
- Grade increased
- Course activity in top 10%
- Grade in top 10%
- New calendar event
- New course or organization
- Blog activity
- Blog entry posted
- Blog entry edited
- Journal activity
- Journal entry posted
- Journal entry edited
- Wiki activity
- Wiki page created
- Wiki page edited
- Wiki comment posted
You can choose to receive all or some notifications of a certain type. A checkmark appears when you select all notifications. A dash appears when you select some notifications.
Email notifications
Select the Email Notification Settings tab to open the panel.
If you haven't added an email address to your profile page, you won't see any options in the Email Notification Settings tab.
Choose how often you want to receive emails for activities in all your Original and Ultra courses:
- Email me right away: Receive individual notifications for each activity you choose from the list.
- Email me once a day: All notifications are collected and sent once a day at a time set by your institution.
In the Notify me by email about these activities list, choose which notifications you want to receive:
- New gradable items
- New messages
- New discussion messages
- New content added
- New and upcoming due dates
- Past due items
- New courses available
Push notifications
If you have the Blackboard mobile app installed, you can receive push notifications on your mobile device. You can manage which push notifications are sent in these ways:
- Blackboard on the web: Log in to Blackboard on a web browser and navigate to your Activity Stream. Select the Stream Settings icon. From the Notification Settings panel, select the Push Notification Settings tab.
- Blackboard app: In the app's main menu, tap Settings. Manage push notifications in the app.
Choose which push notifications you want to receive for activity in all your Original and Ultra courses:
- New content
- Discussion posts and replies by your instructor
- Discussion replies in a thread you authored
- New grades and feedback
- Due dates for these content types only
- Tests
- Assignments
- Discussions
- Manual grade columns
- Additional due date reminders - you can set up more reminders for a specific number of days prior to due dates
Due date push notifications always appear one day before the due date and can't be turned off like other push notification types.
When an instructor changes a due date, a new Test Due push notification is generated. The push notification doesn't state that it's a changed due date.
Sources and Relevant Links
OCV - Edit Notification Settings