Activity Stream

Activity Stream Feed

The up-to-the-minute activity stream lets you jump directly into course actions.  You don't need to dig through the system, search for deadlines, or miss assignments and tests.

Receive reminders.  View pending deadlines or overdue assignments, tests, and graded discussions.

Check your grades.  Whenever your instructor grades an assignment, test, or graded discussion, you can access the grade in your stream.  If your instructor updates a grade, the grade is also updated in the stream.

Learn to juggle.  Get a bird's eye view of your tasks across all your courses—then, prioritize!

Filter your view.  Use the Filter menu and choose Show All, Assignments and Tests, or Grades and Feedback.

Activity Stream Categories

Activity stream items are grouped into four categories to make a list easier to scan:

Important: See overdue assignments, tests, and graded discussions.  The number of items in this section makes up the count shown by Activity Stream in the list where your name appears.  If you dismiss an item in this section, you won't be able to view it again even if you sign out and sign in again.  When you dismiss a stream item, the original content isn't affected.  You just remove the notification from the activity stream.

Upcoming: View your top five events that will happen in the next seven days.  Select Show More for a complete list.  This section doesn't appear if no upcoming events are available.

Today: See everything happening and due in the next 24 hours, including institution-wide announcements about emergency notifications and updates.  If your instructors added announcements, they appear here or in the Recent section.

Recent: If you haven't checked in for a bit, view stream items that were previously in the Today section over the last seven days.

Customize Your Activity Stream

Select the Stream Settings icon to open the Notification Settings panel on your Activity Stream page.  You can also access these settings from your profile page.

You can choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your courses:

• Activity stream: Choose which activities appear on your Stream page.
• Email: If you want to receive email notifications, add an email address to your profile page.  Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.

Events that Appear if Your Activity Stream

The activity stream shows what's happening in your courses.  These events trigger notifications in your activity stream:

• New courses available
• Your instructors added content to your courses, such as assignments and tests
• You added a new blog, journal entry, or wiki page
• Your instructors posted grades for your work
• Your instructors added events to your courses
• Items that are due today
• Items that are due soon
• Items that are past due
• Events that are happening today
• Events that are happening soon

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