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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Notification settings

You can access your Notification settings through the Notifications link found in your user menu found through 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.

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 as a text message, enter it in the Confirmation Code field.
5. Click Confirm.
6. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

Customize Notifications

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 has been made inactive, students will not be able to access the course.

Exclude Some Courses

This section will allow you to customize the courses you receive notifications for.

1. Under Exclude Some Courses heading, click Manage my Course Exclusions.
2. Either browse the list or use the search box to locate a course you wish to disable, and click the 'X' button next to the right of the course title to stop notifications.
3. Repeat this for each course you wish to disable.

To enable a course that has been excldued, repeat the steps above but instead of the 'X' to exclude the course a RestoreCourse.gif restore button will be shown to click on.

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 .2121 will display all of your enrolled courses for Fall Quarter 2012 (2121).

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 [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.