Brightspace: Customize Notifications (Students)

Overview

This article details how to customize your notifications in Brightspace. 

What activities generate notifications?

Typically, notifications are sent when you have new content, grades, assignments available, an upcoming due date, and when you have unread discussions. By default, Brightspace also sends a weekly Summary of Activity notification to your email (Sunday).

These notifications can be customized.

How to customize notifications

  1. In the upper-right corner of Brightspace, click your Name. Then click Notifications.

    Image of the menu that appears when you click on your name, where Notifications is located.
     
  2. You can change the following Notifications settings:

    Summary of Activity
    To control how often you receive notifications about course-related activities, open the drop-down menu under How often? and select Daily, Weekly, or Never.

    Instant Notifications
    To set individual notifications for course-related components, select the preferred notification type beside each component.

    Customize Notifications
    Select whether to receive grade value notifications from the Grades tool or receive future course–related notifications.

    Exclude some courses
    To exclude receiving notifications from specific courses, click the Manage my course exclusions link and select the courses you want to exclude.
     
  3. After reviewing all the details, click Save. Your notification settings are updated and saved.

Learn more about Brightspace Notifications (Brightspace Community)

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