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Discussion Forum: Notifications & Options

How to mute forum notifications, tag your instructor with a specific question, mark best responses and filter your search.

Written by Kate Porter
Updated over 2 weeks ago


Muting Notifications

You can mute email and platform notifications by forum and by post.
*Posts made by instructors or the University can not be muted.

Mute Forum

To mute notifications for all posts in a specific forum, navigate to the forum and click the bell icon. By muting, you will not receive any notifications for posts or comments by students in that forum. You can unmute anytime by clicking the bell icon again.

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Mute Post

To mute notifications for a specific post, navigate to the post and click the bell icon. By muting, you will not receive any notifications for comments by students on that post. You can unmute anytime by clicking the bell icon again.

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Questions & Responses

Instructor Questions

You have the option to tag your post as a specific question to instructors. By marking the checkbox (Instructor Response Requested), your instructor will be notified of your question when you create your post.

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Answered Questions

If a student or instructor replies to a student's post by answering the poster's question, you can mark that reply as a “best answer.” Doing so creates a tag on the post to indicate to everyone that the question asked in the post has been answered by the reply.

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Helpful Posts

Instructors have the ability to tag posts and comments as being Helpful. For example, an article a student shares from an outside source that is helpful to the module. Keep an eye out for posts that have been marked as helpful.

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Filters

You can filter on both the Author Type and the Post Type to more easily find what you’re looking for.

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