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Blackboard Ultra: Student Orientation: Notifications

 

Blackboard Ultra Orientation

Notifications

Choose How and When you Receive Notifications

You can choose the types of notifications you receive and how they're delivered to you—two options where you can access notification settings.

Option 1:

Select the Stream Settings icon to open the Notification Settings panel on your Activity Stream page.

Option 2:

You can also access these settings from your profile page.

Activity Stream Notification Settings


Activity Stream Notifications

Notifications for due dates and items ready to grade always appear in your stream.

You can choose to receive all or some notifications of a certain type.  A checkmark appears when you select all notifications.  A dash appears when you select some notifications.

  • Institution announcements                                                                              
  • Course announcements
  • Graded items due
    • Graded item due soon
    • Graded item past due
  • New content
    • Assessment added
    • Content added
  • Grades posted
  • New discussion
  • My grades and activity
    • No recent activity
    • Grade low or at risk
    • Grade dropped
    • Low course activity
    • Grade increased
    • Course activity in top 10%
    • Grade in top 10%
  • New calendar event
  • New course or organization

Email NotificationsEmail Notification Settings

  1. Select the Email Notification Settings tab to open the panel.
  2. Choose how often you want to receive emails for activities in all your courses:
  • Email me right away: Receive individual notifications for each activity you choose from the list.
  • Email me once a day: All notifications are collected and sent once a day at a time set by your institution.
  1. In the Notify me by email about these activities list, choose which notifications you want to receive:
  • New gradable items
  • New messages
  • New discussion messages
  • New content added
  • New and upcoming due dates
  • Past due items
  • New courses available

Clear all the checkboxes if you don't want to receive emails about the activities on the list.

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