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.

Use Warning

Notification development

We are aware that the scope of notifications are limited at this time. The vendor has introduced this framework as their initial development. With this groundwork they will be adding additional notification options through future updates. We appreciate your patience while myCourses grows to meet all of our needs.

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 on the form.
4. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

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.

Set up a mobile contact method

1. On the Notifications page, click the Register your mobile link.
2. On the Register Your Mobile form, select your Country, select your Mobile Carrier, and enter your full Mobile Number.
3. Click Save.
4. You will receive a registration confirmation code on your mobile device, enter it in the Confirmation Code field.
5. Click Confirm.
6. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

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.

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

New Courses

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.

Search Tips

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).

See all courses

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.

Excluding an individual course

You may exclude an individual course by finding it in the list and clicking the Exclude icon.

Restoring all courses

1. Under Exclude Some Courses, click Manage my Course Exclusions.
2. Click on Restore Excluded Courses.

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.

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.

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.
4. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

Subscribe to Instant Discussion Notifications (Email Only)

Users can receive email notifications for discussion forums, threads, or messages that you want to follow. This option is enabled by default.

1. Check the box in the Email column for Discussions - new message posted to a forum, topic or message for which I subscribed to instant notifications.
2. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

Your Discussion Subscriptions are managed in the Discussion tool of each course. Please review the [myCoursesHR:Discussions - User Documentation] for instructions regarding these options.

Subscribe to Instant Dropbox Deadline Notifications (Email, SMS)

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.

1. Check the box in the Email column and/or the SMS column for Dropbox - Dropbox folder end date is 2 days away.
2. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

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.

1. Check the box in the Email column for News - item updated and/or News - new item available.
2. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

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 a course.

1. Visit the location of the News you wish to subscribe to.
2. Depending on how your web browser and RSS Reader are configured, you may either click on the 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.

SMS

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

1. Check the box in the SMS column for News - item updated and/or News - new item available.
2. Click Save at the bottom of the page.