How do I set my Notification Preferences?

You can set notification preferences to receive updates about your Sublime LMS ™ courses. These steps apply for all users.
Note: These settings apply to all of your courses.

Open Personal Settings

Click the Settings link.

View Settings

Within your personal Profile, you can:

  • Add ways for your fellow classmates to contact you
  • Link to web services
  • View and set notifications preferences
  • View approved integrations

Add Ways to Contact

Before you can set your Notification Preferences, you will need to set the ways you want to be notified.

Your account will already display the email associated with your account. However, if you want to add an additional email address, and If you want to add any other type of contact method such as Twitter or text messages, click the Add Contact Method .

Edit Contact Methods

Sublime LMS ™ will ask to verify your additional contact methods. Once they have been verified, a checkmark will appear next to the method type . You can delete additional contact methods at any time by clicking the trash icon [1].

Link to Web Services

The Web Services portion on your settings page is divided into two columns. Services you have already registered, such as through the Ways to Contact section of your settings, or through course Collaborations and assignments, appear in the left column under the Registered Services heading [1].

Other services that are available for registration appear in the right column under the Other Services heading [2]. Register for any of these other services by clicking one of the [ServiceName] buttons [3]. Once you have registered for that service properly, the service name will move from the right column to the left column. Repeat this process to add additional services.

View Notification Preferences

You can view and set notification preferences within your course. In the navigation menu, click the Notifications link.

View Notification Preferences

Your notifications preference page will display all of the contact methods you have created across the top of the page. You will need to specify how you want to be notified for each contact method.
The notifications are divided up into seven categories:

  1. Course Activities
  2. Discussions
  3. Communications
  4. Scheduling
  5. Groups
  6. Conferences
  7. Alert

View Notification Descriptions

When you hover over the name of the notification, you can view the details of the notification and adjust your preferences.

Note: Some notifications are for instructors and admin only as noted in the hover descriptions:

Course Activities:

Due Date: Assignment due date change
Grading Policies: Course grading policy change
Course Content: Change to course content including WikiPage, Assignment, and Quiz content
Files: New file added to your course. Sublime LMS ™ will only notify you of new files in a course once they have been updated.
Announcement: New announcement in your course
Grading: Includes assignments/submission grade entered/changed, un muted assignment grade, grade weight changed. Check Include scores when alerting about grade changes checkbox if you want to see your grades in your notifications. If you aren't using your institutional email address, be aware that sensitive information will be sent outside the institution.
Invitation: Includes invitations to web conferences, collaborations, groups, course, peer review and peer review reminders
All Submissions (Instructor & Admin only): Assignment submission/resubmission
Late Grading (Instructor & Admin only): Late assignment submission
Submission Comment: Assignment submission comment.

Discussions:

Discussion: New discussion topic in your course
Discussion Post: New discussion post in a topic you're subscribed to

Conversations:

Added to Conversation: You are added to a conversation
Conversation Message: New Inbox message

Scheduling:

Student Appointment Signups (Instructor & Admin only): Student appointment signup using Scheduler
Appointment Signups: New appointment on your calendar
Student Appointment Cancellations: Appointment cancellation
Appointment Availability (Instructor & Admin only): Change to appointment time slots
Calendar: New and changed items on your course calendar

Groups:

Group Membership Updates: Group enrollment, accepted/rejected membership; (Admin only) pending enrollment activated

Alerts:

Administrative Notifications (Instructor & Admin only): includes course enrollment, report generated, context export, migration export, new account user, new teacher registration, new student group

View Set Notification Preferences

For email white list purposes, notifications will be sent from an email address.

By default, your notifications will be set as follows:

Course Activities

Due Date: Emailed weekly
Grading Policy changes: Emailed weekly
Course Content: Emailed never
Files: Emailed never
Announcements: Emailed right away
Grading notifications: Emailed right away
New Invitations: Emailed right away
All Submissions: Emailed never
Late Grading: Emailed daily
Submission Comments: Emailed daily

Discussions

Discussion: Emailed daily
Discussion Post: Emailed never

Conversations

Added to Conversation: Emailed right away
Conversation Messages: Emailed right away

Scheduling

Student Appointment Signups: Emailed never
Appointment Signups: Emailed right away
Appointment Cancellations: Emailed right away
Appointment Availability: Emailed right away
Calendar changes: Emailed never

Groups

Membership Update: Emailed daily

Alerts

Administrative Notifications: Emailed daily

View Weekly Notification Time

At the bottom of the page, Sublime LMS ™ will let you know when you can expect to receive each notification. The date and time will vary between users.

Edit Notification Preferences

To change a notification for a contact method, hover over the notification type you want to change. Select one of four options.

  1. Select the Checkmark icon to be notified immediately of any change for the activity.
  2. Select the Clock icon to be notified daily of any change for the activity.
  3. Select the Calendar icon to be notified weekly of any change for the activity.
  4. Select the X icon to remove the notification preference so you won't be notified of any change for the activity.

Note: Each set notification preference will apply to all of your courses. They cannot be set individually.

View Approved Integrations

When you allow third-party integrations to access your account, the Approved Integrations section will appear and display the authorized integrations. Each integration will show you the name of the application, the purpose (if one is noted), the date the application was last used, the date the application expires, and a link to view further details.