Setting Up Message Settings
Your Messaging settings include your personal preferences regarding
how communication from within Moodle is sent to you. By default,
all Moodle messages are sent to your Moodle Messages tool.
You can choose to have those messages be sent to your personal
email account as well as add additional notifications.
- To set your Message Settings, find the Settings
block in your course (often on the left side).
- Click on the My profile settings link to display the drop-down list.
- Then click on Messaging.
- You will see a list of the
type of notifications you can choose to receive--both with a logged in and an
offline option.
- You should
see a column labeled Popup notification. If you
have a checkmark in that column, the notification on that row will be
sent to the Moodle Messages tool.
- To the right of that column is
an Email column. If you have a checkmark in that
column, the notification in that row will be sent to your personal email
account.
- You can check and uncheck boxes as desired. Don't check
too many boxes, however, because then you will get so many messages that
it will become difficult to pick out things that are more important.
You'll notice a few options that are set as Forced
- this means that the site administrator has forced that option on (such
as for Moodle Messages to go to the Messages tool). You cannot uncheck
those items.
If you want to set your Moodle messages to also be sent to your
personal email account:
- Scroll down to the Personal messages
between users section.
- You have the option to checkmark both
when you are logged in to Moodle or offline (not logged in to Moodle).
It is recommended that you check both boxes if you want your Moodle
messages forwarded. This will forward all Moodle messages
regardless of whether you are logged in to Moodle or not.
- After making changes, scroll down and click the Update
profile button. You should never check the boxes to
temporarily disable notifications or to prevent non-contacts from
messaging you. Doing so, could cause you to miss important
information from your instructor.
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