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Managing your email notifications on the Moodle platform.

Moodle makes it easy to keep track of online discussions in your course using
email notifications when you are "subscribed" to a forum. This document shows
you how to control these notifications and prevent your inbox from being flooded
with too many messages.

There are two places where you need to keep track of your settings: a) User
Preferences controls settings for the forums on this course; b) and there is
another option to ley you ‘manage subscriptions to particular forums’ and
discussions in your Administration block.

In most cases, you should be able to choose whether or not to subscribe to a

forum and receive email notifications, but depending on the administrator’s
settings, you may not be able to change the subscription mode. For example, in
most courses you cannot opt out of receiving email when your tutor posts to the
News Forum (or ‘Course Noticeboard’ as it is called on this platform).

Manage Notifications through Your User Preferences

Every Moodle user has the ability to control how they receive email notifications
from Moodle. To customize these settings:

1. Click your name or user icon (at top right of your course page) and from
the User menu drop- down, select Preferences. Your Preferences page will
open. 


2. On the Preferences page, under User account, click Forum preferences.

The Forum preferences page will open. 


3. On the Forum preferences page, from the Email digest type drop-down
menu, select how Moodle will send notifications when you are following

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discussions. You have the following options: 


No digest (single email per forum post) (default); Complete (daily
email with full posts);
 Subjects (daily email with subjects only) 


Note: By choosing Complete or Subjects you will receive one email per day
with notifications from Moodle. If you choose No digest, you will receive an
email every time a classmate or instructor posts to discussions you are
following. 


4. From the Forum auto-subscribe drop-down menu, select how you will follow
discussion forums: No: don't automatically subscribe me to forum
discussions (default) Recommended. Yes: When I post, subscribe me
to that forum Not recommended; you will receive email notifications from
any forum you contribute to. 


5. At the bottom of the page, click Save changes to finish making changes. 


Manage Subscriptions to Particular Forums and Discussions

If the administrator has set subscription for a Forum to be optional, you can
choose whether or not to receive email notifications. You can also choose to
subscribe to individual topics in a forum discussion, as opposed to receiving emails
for all topics in that forum. This can be especially useful in forums with multiple
discussion topics where you only want to follow particular topics.

To change your subscription mode for an entire forum:

First, open the forum, and then in the Administration block

6. Click Subscribe to this forum to receive emails. 


7. Click Unsubscribe from this forum If you do not want to receive emails.

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To change your subscription mode for a discussion topic within a

forum: 
Open the forum. Discussion topics are listed on the forum page. 


• To subscribe to a discussion, click on the dot icon to the right of the discussion
name. The dot will change to an envelope icon.


• To unsubscribe from a discussion, click on the the envelope to the right of the
discussion name. The envelope will change to a dot.

Or, open the forum and then open a particular Discussion topic. Now go to the the
Administration block, and from there you can change subscription settings for the
entire forum, or the discussion topic you are viewing.

• Click Subscribe to this discussion to receive emails.

• Click Unsubscribe from this discussion if you do not want to receive emails.

To change your subscription mode from an email notification you

received:

At the bottom of an email message sent from Moodle, click Unsubscribe from
this forum (or Unsubscribe from all forums). You will be sent to Moodle (you
may need to log in) where you will be asked to confirm your choice. Click
Continue to unsubscribe and stop receiving email notifications.

Note: If you do not see a link to unsubscribe, the administrator has set
subscription for the forum to Forced subscription, and you cannot unsubscribe.

(Adapted from the University of Massachusetts Amherst http://www.umass.edu/it)

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