Student Orientation: Change My Account Settings
Jump to Topic: Change Your Password | Add New Email Address | Change Default Email Address | Change Your Notification Preferences

You may make changes to your personal user settings, such as your password and email address, by clicking on the Settings link in the Help Corner.

Personal Settings

To change your settings, click the Edit Settings button on the Sidebar.

Edit Settings

Change Your Password

To change your password, follow the steps below:

  1. Check the Change Password checkbox.
  2. Enter your Old Password and select a New Password at the designated prompts.
  3. Enter the new password you selected again at the Confirm Password prompt.
  4. Click Update Settings to save your changes.

    Change Password

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Add a New Email Address

To add a new email address to your account, follow the steps below:

  1. Click the Add Email Address link in the Ways to Contact area of the Sidebar.

    Add Email
  2. Enter the email address you want to add in the text field [1]. Select the check box, if you would like to use this email address to log into your account on the course site [2]. When you are finished, click the Register Email button [3].

    Change Password
  3. A confirmation will appear indicating that an email will be sent to the newly registered email address. Click OK,Thanks after viewing this confirmation.

    Confirm Email Message
  4. If you did not receive the confirmation email, click the Re-Send Confirmation link to resend the confirmation link to the newly added email address.
  5. Access the email account just added and open the confimation email. Click the link in the email to finish registering the new email address. Once you have completed this process, the new email address will show up under the Ways to Contact Sidebar under Email Addresses. To delete an email address, click the Trash icon.

    Delete Email

    Please Note: If the email address is italicized and gray, that means that you have not finished registering it. You will know the email address is registered when it turns into a blue link.

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Change My Default Email Address

The default email addess associated with your account serves as the primary method of contact between you and your instructor and your classmates. Your default email address is also used to reset your password, if you have forgotten it.


You may change the default email address associated with your account, by following the steps below:

  1. Access the the Ways to Contact area of the Sidebar to view the Email Addresses associated with your account . If multiple emails exist, you may change the default email associated with your account.

    Please Note: The default email address for your account will have a bold star icon displayed to the left of the email address.

    Default Email
  2. To change the default email account, hover over the email of your choice. (A faint star icon will appear to the left of the selected email account.)

    Faint Star
  3. Click the faint star icon to make the email address the default.
  4. Note the new default email address will then display a bold star to the left of it to indicate it is now the default.

    Default Email With Star


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Change Your Notification Preferences

You can set Notification Preferences to receive updates about your course. Notifications can be sent right away, daily, weekly, or never. These settings will apply to all courses you are taking on the course site.

For email whitelist purposes, notifications will be sent from notifications@connect4education.com.



To view and set Notification Preferences for your account, follow the steps below:

  1. In the Navigation menu, click the Notifications link.

    Notifications

    Your Notification Preferences page will display all of the contact methods you have created across the top of the page [A]. You will need to specify how you want to be notified for each contact method.

    At the bottom of the page, the course site will let you know when you can expect to receive each notification [B]. (The date and time will vary between users.) Notifications are divided up into six categories:

    1. Course Activities
    2. Discussions
    3. Communications
    4. Scheduling
    5. Groups
    6. Alerts
    Notification Types

    When you hover over the name of the notification, you can view the details of the notification and adjust your preferences.

    Notification Detail

    Please Note: Some notifications are for instructors and administrators only, as noted in the hover descriptions.

    For a description of each of the Notification Preferences, please refer to the Notification Preference Descriptions section below.


  2. Locate the category you would like to adjust [1] and set the Notification Preference for the category by clicking the appropriate icon [2].

    Notification Edit

    To change a notification for a contact method, hover over the notification type you want to change. Select one of four options:

    Notification Options

    1. Select the Checkmark icon to be notified immediately of any change for the activity.
    2. Select the Clock icon to be notified daily of any change for the activity.
    3. Select the Calendar icon to be notified weekly of any change for the activity.
    4. Select the X icon to remove the notification preference so you won't be notified of any change for the activity.

  3. Verify that the Notification Preference was correctly set. Your preference will be automatically saved. The column indicator should reflect the selection made in the previous step.


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Notification Preference Descriptions

Below is a brief description of each of the Notification Preferences available:


Course Activities

Discussions

Conversations

Scheduling

Groups

Alerts



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Notification Preference Default Settings

By default, Notification Preferences will be set as follows:


Course Activities

Discussions

Conversations

Scheduling

Groups

Alerts











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