Faculty Guides and Documentation

Enabling Course Message Notifications

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This guide will demonstrate how to enable notifications for new messages to be sent to an individual's email account.

Accessing Notification Settings

Screenshot of profile

To edit notification settings:

  1. Click on your name to open your profile.
  2. Select Email notifiactions.

Editing Notification Settings

By default, Blackboard will send an email once a day if there is a new message.

Screenshot of notification settings

2. Instructors can choose to receive an email right away or once a day.

2. By deselecting New messages, instructors will not receive an email if there is a new unread message.

Notification Settings are individual to how instructors want to receive notifications, this does not change any settings for students.

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