Setting up email and text notifications for myCourses


OVERVIEW

Target audience: Students

You can set up Notifications to receive text or email messages about activity in your courses, such as announcements, discussion postings, and assignment or quiz due dates. You can also receive a daily summary of activities in all your courses.

In this article:

Accessing the Notifications page

To access the Notifications page from any page of myCourses:

  1. Click your name or profile picture at the top-right.
  2. Select Notifications from the drop-down menu.

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Changing your email contact method

To change your email contact method:

  1. Under Contact Methods, click Change your email settings.

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  2. Your default email address is your McGill email address. If you select Use custom email, enter your email address in the custom email field.
  3. Click Save.

Setting up a mobile contact method

To set up a mobile contact method:

  1. Under Mobile Number, click Register your mobile.
  2. Select your Country, your Mobile Carrier, and enter your Mobile Number.

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    NOTE:

    If your Mobile Carrier is not listed, it means that carrier is unable to receive SMS text notifications from myCourses..

  3. Click Save. A confirmation code is sent instantly to your mobile device.
  4. Enter the Confirmation Code that was sent to your mobile device in the Confirmation Code field and click Confirm.

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Subscribing to an activity summary

To subscribe to an activity summary:

  1. Under Summary of Activity select Daily from the How often? drop-down list.
  2. Select the time from the At what time? drop-down list.
  3. Click Save.

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NOTE:

You must set up your email contact method to subscribe to a summary of activity. To stop receiving the summary, select Never.

 

Excluding courses from notifications

If you do not wish to receive notifications from specific courses, you can exclude them.

To exclude a course from notifications:

  1. Under Exclude Some Courses, click Manage my course exclusions.

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  2. Do one of the following:
    • Click the X beside each course you do not want to receive notifications from.
    • Click Exclude All Courses to stop all current course notifications.
  3. Click Close.

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Restoring excluded course notifications

To restore a course that you previously excluded from notifications:

  1. On the Notifications page, click Manage my course exclusions.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Restore icon Restore icon beside each excluded course you want to resume receiving notifications for.
    • Click Restore excluded courses to resume receiving notifications from all courses.
  3. Click Close.

references

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:

Index of documentation for students using myCourses