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The following is not an exhaustive list of all settings,(see this PDF for a complete listing and explanations), but rather highlights that faculty members may choose to change from their default state to something else, as well as recommend their students set in a certain way.
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= recommended for faculty member’s own notifications ✏️ = recommended notifications for students to enable, as directed by faculty member(s).
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Course Activities
✏️ Due Date — Basically means any time a due date is added or changed to anything (new or existing)
✏️ Course Content — Notifications generated when you (faculty member) make a change to an Assignment, Quiz, or Page AND you check “notify users” when you do so. (There are a few limited exceptions where a notification will go out, but most of the time, you’re in control)
✏️ Announcements and Announcements Created by You — self-explanatory
Grading — (Differs from “Grading Policies” notification). Addresses grade availability for students for individual assignments, quizzes, etc, faculty members can have the notifications include the actual grades.
Invitations — Alert you to invitations to collaborate on something in a course, e.g. Collaboration (Google Doc), Conference, Peer Review etc.
All Submissions — Notify faculty member that an individual student has submitted something to you. By default, this notification is turned off.
Late Grading — Notifies faculty members— a student has submitted a late assignment.
✏️Submission Comments — Notifies student that there are comments on an assignment (and what the comments are), or notifies them that an instructor has re-uploaded their submission.
Discussions
All settings in this area
Conversations
✏️ Added To Conversation — Someone in the course added you to an existing Conversation. You can reply to it from your email account as long as you don’t have attachments associated with it.
✏️ Conversation Message — You have been sent a conversation
Scheduling
All settings in this area
Alerts
Administrative Notifications — Includes accepted course enrollments, generated reports, context export, migration export, new account users, and new student groups. Applies only to instructors
Content Link Error — A student clicks on a link that is “broken” (because the content is unpublished, because they don’t have permission to view it, or because its just broken). This notification is for instructors.