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Users can choose to have some notifications sent to them by email, RSS, or SMS so they can be informed of course updates without being required to log in to myCourses.

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Current notification options:
* News (Email, RSS, or SMS)
* Dropbox deadline reminders (Email or SMS)
* Course updates (Email only)

h1. Use Warning
{warning:title=Configuration required to avoid significant message volume}By default the notification options will generate message for each course you are enrolled in, past and present. For example, if you are enrolled in 28 courses across the past two years you will receive 28 summary emails each day if you do not configure your preferences.

Once you have enabled your preferred notifications, you will want to use the Exclude Some Courses options to select only the courses you are interested in receiving notifications for.
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h1. Notification settings

You can access your Notification settings through the !NotificationsIcon.png!*Notifications* link found in the Welcome box on the My Home page, or through the !NotificationsIcon.png!*Notifications* link found anywhere you see the *News* tool.


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h2. Set up an email contact method

# On the Notifications page, click the *Enable email notifications* link.
# Select your email. If you select Use custom email, enter your email address in the custom email field.
# Click Save.

All notifications will be sent from the _twcnoreply@rit.edu_ address. Please make sure to whitelist this address in your email client to ensure your email notifications are not blocked as junk mail.

h2. Set up a mobile contact method

{warning:title=Carrier charges may apply for SMS messages}Charges may apply for SMS messages depending upon your mobile carrier and your service contract with them. myCourses and the Rochester Institute of Technology are not responsible for any charges you may incur by choosing to enable notifications.{warning}

# On the Notifications page, click the *Register your mobile* link.
# On the Register Your Mobile form, select your Country, select your Mobile Carrier, and enter your full Mobile Number.
# Click Save.
# You will receive a registration confirmation code on your mobile device, enter it in the Confirmation Code field.
# Click Confirm.

{info:title=Additional mobile carriers}If your mobile carrier is not listed and you know they offer an Email to SMS gateway, please feel free to supply a link to that carries gateway information to [Academic Technology Support|myCoursesHR:Support - Academic Technology Support] to get it added as an available option. The gateway must be in the format that an email may be sent to the the phone number as a recipient.{info}

h1. Available Notifications

h2. Subscribe to a Daily Summary (Email only)

The daily summary email will include most activity on a course, generally reflecting the information found in the Updates shown on the course home page of courses by default. 

{warning:title=Configuration required to avoid significant email}By default this This option will send deliveryou aan summaryindividual email message for each course you are enrolled in, past and present., Ifunless you are enrolled in 28 courses across the past two years you will receive 28 summary emails each day.
Please follow all of the instructions below to maintain a select list of courses for daily summaries.{warning}choose to Exclude Some Courses.

{note}You must set up your email contact method to subscribe to a summary of activity.{note}

# On the Notifications page, change the How often? drop-down list From Never to Daily.
# Select from the At what time? drop-down lists when you want to receive your daily digest.
# Click Save.



h2. Subscribe to Instant News Notifications (Email, SMS, RSS)

Users have two options available for News notifications. They can be notified whenever a new news item is available and when an instructor makes a major update to an existing news item.

h3. Email

Email notifications include the headline and full body of the news item, plus a link to access the News tool for the course and any attachments.

h3. RSS

For users who prefer to aggregate all their news into Google Reader, Outlook, etc. they can now subscribe to an RSS feed for News from all of their current courses or from individual courses.

Support can only assist you with getting the RSS feed from myCourses for your use, we are not able to assist with the configuration and use of all the third-party options to take advantage of the RSS Feed.

h3. SMS

These notifications include a course identifier and as much of the headline and news body text as fits in a short message.

h2. Exclude Some Courses
By default the notification options will generate message for each course you are enrolled in, past and present. This section will allow you to customize the courses you receive notifications for.

Our recommended approach is to disable all courses and then only enable notifications for the courses you are truly interested in. You will want to revisit this each quarter to manage your course preferences.

# Under Exclude Some Courses, click *Manage my Course Exclusions*.
# On the Manage Course Exclusions dialog, click *Exclude All Courses*
# Either browse the list or use the search box to locate a course you wish to enable and click the !RestoreCourse.gif! *Restore* button next to the course title.
# Repeat the restore steps for each course you wish to enable.

h3. Search Tips
h4. Quickly find a quarter
When searching for courses, you can quickly find courses for a specific quarter by searching on the quarter number with a leading period. For example, searching on _.20112_ will display all of your enrolled courses for Winter Quarter (20112).

h4. See all courses
If you have performed a search and wish to see all of your courses again you will have to clear the search field and then click the search icon again.

h3. Excluding an individual course
You may exclude an individual course by finding it in the list and clicking the 
!ExcludeCourse.gif! *Exclude* icon.

h3. Restoring all courses
# Under Exclude Some Courses, click *Manage my Course Exclusions*.
# Click on *Restore Excluded Courses*.