Setting Your Notifications  

Before you can receive text notifications, you must confirm your mobile device. Carrier charges might apply to text messages you receive. Check your phone/data plan.

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The Notifications tool enables you to:  

• Receive instant notifications about course events, such as Dropbox submissions, discussion messages, and news updates.  
• Subscribe to a summary of activity for each course and receive a daily email about recent news items and information updates from the Updates widget.  
• Receive a daily summary about quizzes, discussion messages, new emails, broken links, and Dropbox submissions.  
• Change the email and SMS notifications options for your courses.  

Access the Notifications tool  

Complete one of the following tasks:  

• From My Home or Course Home, click the Notifications link in the My Settings widget.  
• Click the Notifications icon in the News widget.  

Set up an email contact method   

1. On the Notifications page, click the Enable email notifications link.  
2. Select your email. If you select Use custom email, enter your email address in the custom email field.  
3. Click on the Save button.  

Set up a mobile contact method   

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

Subscribe to a summary of activity   

Students must set up your email contact method to subscribe to a summary of activity.  

1. On the Notifications page, select from the drop-down list How often? you want to receive a summary of activity. Select from the At what time? drop-down lists when to receive your daily email.  
2. Click Save.  

Subscribe to instant notifications   

1. On the Notifications page, beside each instant notification option listed beneath Dropbox, News, and Discussion Events:  
   • Select the Receive email notifications check box to enable email notifications.  
   • Select the Receive SMS notifications check box to enable SMS notifications.  
2. Click Save.  

Exclude courses from notifications   

1. On the Notifications page, click the Manage my exclusions link.  
2. Click the Exclude icon beside each course you want to exclude, or click Exclude All Courses to stop all course notifications.  
3. Click on the Close.  

Restore excluded course notifications   

1. On the Notifications page, click the Manage my exclusions link.  
2. Click the Include icon beside each course you want to receive notifications from, or click Clear course exclusions to restore all excluded courses.  
3. Click on the Close.