Student Documentation (K12)

Enable notifications in Announcements

Receive frequent and regular communications from your teacher by customizing notification preferences to receive important course updates.

To enable notifications in Announcements

Navigate to the course that you want to enable Announcements notifications for.
In the Announcements widget, click the drop-down menu and select Notifications.

Figure: Accessing Notifications through the Announcements widget.
Note: If the Announcements tool is not on your course homepage, you can locate it on the navbar or in the Course Tools menu.

A new page loads where you can enter your desired contact methods:
- Email Address: Click on the Enable email notifications hyperlink to add in your email address so that you can receive email notifications about your course.
Click the check boxes for your desired methods of communication when receiving Announcements notifications.
- Announcements – announcement updated: Sends you a notification if an existing announcement posted by your teacher was updated.
- Announcements – new announcement available: Sends you a notification if a new announcement was posted to your course.
  
  Figure: Set up email notifications for Announcements.
Notifications are enabled for Announcements.