Vendor Documentation
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Users
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can
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choose
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to
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have
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some
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notifications
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sent
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to
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them
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by
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email,
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RSS,
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or
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SMS
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so
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they
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can
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be
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informed
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of
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course
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updates
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without
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being
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required
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to
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log
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in
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to
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myCourses.
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If you choose to enable Notifications you must take time to configure them properly to ensure they meet your needs. Misconfiguration can cause a large amount of messages to be sent out. |
You can access your Notification settings through the Notifications link found in your user menu found by clicking on your name on the minibar at the top of most pages, or through the Notifications link found through the action menu on any News tool.
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.
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Charges may apply for text 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. |
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If your mobile carrier is not listed and you know they offer an Email to SMS/Text Message gateway, please feel free to supply a link to that carriers gateway information to Academic Technology Support to get it added as an available option. The gateway must be a public method where an email can be sent to a user based on their phone number so they will receive it as a text message. |
The first checkbox, Include my grade value in notifications from Grades, allows you the option of including your actual grades in messages. You may wish to disable this if this is a privacy concern for a shared mobile device.
The additional options allow you to receive notifications for courses outside of the current academic term or courses that have been made inactive by the instructor. We recommend leaving these options unchecked. If a class is in a future term or it has been made inactive, students will not be able to access the course so notifications will not be useful in those cases.
Your notification settings allow you to exclude courses you do not wish to receive notifications for.
Exclude button next to the right of the course title to stop notifications for that course. To enable a course that has been excluded, repeat the steps above but instead of the 'X' to exclude the course a 
Restore button will be shown to click on.
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New course enrollments will be enabled by default. So if you are added to a new committee or enrolled in courses for an upcoming quarter you will receive notifications for those items unless you exclude them.
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 .2121 will display all of your enrolled courses for Fall Quarter 2012 (2121).
If you have performed a search and wish to see all of your courses again click the 'x' next to what you have typed in to the search field.
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This option will be performed without a confirmation at this time. Please do not click on this link unless you are sure you wish to reset your excluded courses. |
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.
This option will send you an individual email for each course you are enrolled in, past and present, unless you choose to Exclude Some Courses.
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You must set up your email contact method to subscribe to a summary of activity. |
Users can receive email notifications for discussion forums, threads, or messages that you want to follow. This option is enabled by default.
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In a busy course this may generate significant message volume. Please subscribe to Discussions wisely to make the most of this feature. |
Email column for Discussions - new message posted to a forum, topic or message for which I subscribed to instant notifications.Your Discussion Subscriptions are managed in the Discussion tool of each course. Please review the Discussions - User Documentation for instructions regarding these options.
Users can subscribe to receive email or SMS notifications on dropbox folders with approaching end dates. If users have already submitted files to the folder, they still get notified of the approaching end date in case there are additional files they want to add, or if they want to make some final tweaks to their essay and submit an updated version before the end date.
Email column and/or the 
SMS column for Dropbox - Dropbox folder end date is 2 days away.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.
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.
Email column for News - item updated and/or News - new item available.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 a course.
RSS Icon to launch your RSS Reader or right-click on the RSS Icon to be able to select to copy the link from the menu for your use.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.
These notifications include a course identifier and as much of the headline and news body text as fits in a short message.
SMS column for News - item updated and/or News - new item available.
