Annotation of loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Prefs_Notification.tex, revision 1.7
1.1 raeburn 1: \label{Prefs_Notification}
1.6 lira 2: \noindent\textbf{Receive an external e-mail notifying you when a LON-CAPA message is sent to you}
3: \index{e-mail notifications}
1.1 raeburn 4:
5: LON-CAPA can send new message notifications to your conventional
1.7 ! raeburn 6: e-mail accounts. You can choose the specific types of messages
! 7: which will cause notifications to be sent to the e-mail addresses
1.1 raeburn 8: you provide. The specific types of message
1.7 ! raeburn 9: are: critical messages, standard messages or any message. The notification e-mail
1.1 raeburn 10: will include an excerpt of the text contained in the body of the original LON-CAPA
11: message.
12:
13: To receive notification email do the following:
14:
15: \begin{enumerate}
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1.7 ! raeburn 17: \item Either move your mouse pointer over your name at the top left of the page, and select \textbf{Preferences} from the displayed dropdown, or click \textbf{Main Menu} on the Inline Menu and
! 18: then select \includegraphics[width=0.03\paperwidth]{pref} \textbf{Set user preferences}
! 19: in the \textbf{My Space} group.
1.6 lira 20: \item At the \textbf{Set my user preferences} screen, click the
21: \underbar{Message Forwarding and Notification} link in the \textbf{Messages and Notifications} group.
22: \item In the \textbf{Forward messages to other account(s) in LON-CAPA} section, check the checkbox labeled \textbf{Add new address}
1.1 raeburn 23: \item Type a notification address into the text field
24: labeled \textbf{Notification address}. This should be an Internet email
1.6 lira 25: address like \texttt{user@example.com}
1.1 raeburn 26: \item Use the radio buttons to select which types of LON-CAPA message should
1.7 ! raeburn 27: cause a notification email to be sent to the specified address. (See the Critical Messages section \ref{Course_Critical_Message})
1.1 raeburn 28: \item Choose whether you want any HTML tags contained in the original message body
29: to be preserved in the excerpt included in the notification email.
1.6 lira 30: \item Click the \fbox{Save} button.
1.1 raeburn 31: \item Repeat this procedure to add more notification email addresses, one address at a time.
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33: \end{enumerate}
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