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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)

Notification settings

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

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 Save.

Set up a mobile contact method

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.

  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 Save.
  4. After you receive a registration confirmation code on your mobile device, enter it in the Confirmation Code field.
  5. Click Confirm.

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 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.

Available Notifications

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

SMS

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

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