# Setting Up Your Course Email and Understanding Notifications

## The Notifications tool enables you to:

- Receive instant notifications about course activity, such as edited content, new discussion posts, dropboxes, grades, news items and upcoming quizzes.
- Subscribe to a summary of activity for each course and receive a daily email.
- Specify your preferred email address and mobile number for instant notifications. You can choose a custom email address rather than your system email address.

### Setting up an email contact method

1. Click Notifications from your personal menu on the Minibar.
2. In the Email Address section, click Enable email notifications (if no email is listed), or click Change your email settings (if an email is listed).
3. Do one of the following:
   - Select Use system email to use the email address linked to your account.
   - Select Use custom email and enter an email address in the field provided.
4. Click Save.

### Setting up a mobile contact method

1. Click Notifications from your personal menu on the Minibar.
2. In the Mobile Number section, click Register your mobile (if no phone number is listed), or Click Change your mobile (if a phone number is listed).
3. Select your Country, and your Mobile Carrier.
4. Enter your Mobile Number and click Save.
5. After you receive a registration confirmation code on your mobile device, click Confirm your mobile number and enter the code in the Confirmation Code field.
6. Click Confirm.

### Subscribing to instant notifications

You can enable notifications for content, dropbox, grades, quizzes, discussions, and news.
See Enabling notifications in content, Enabling notifications in Dropbox, Enabling Notifications in Grades, Enabling notifications in Quizzes, Enabling notifications in Discussions, and Enabling notifications in News for more information.

Note: You must set up your email contact method on the Notifications page to subscribe to instant notifications.

1. Click Notifications from your personal menu on the Minibar.
2. Enable instant notifications for specific course activity and updates by doing one of the following:
   - Select theEmail checkbox to enable email notifications.
   - Select the SMS checkbox to enable SMS notifications (if available at your campus).
   - Select the Campus Life checkbox to enable Campus Life notifications (if available at your campus)
3. When finished, click Save.