Guide to Moodle

Adjusting all email notifications from Moodle

1. Log into Moodle
2. Hover your cursor over your name in the top right
3. Preferences> Message

Then you will see a long list of events that Moodle can send email notifications for. Choose which of them you wish (or don't wish) to receive by email, by using the check boxes.

When you are done, click "Save"

About email notifications from Moodle

Moodle is not an email platform. If you wish to email your students, please email them! Moodle does sometimes send email notifications of events that happen on Moodle such as:

• a Moodle message has been received while the user is offline
• a forum post to a subscribed forum (such as a news forum)
• an upcoming event

These notifications sometimes fail, so they are not a reliable way of emailing your students. To email your students, send them an actual email.

Adjusting forum email digest settings

1. Log into Moodle
2. Click on your name "You are logged in as Firstname Lastname" in the top right
3. Administration block > My profile settings > Edit profile
4. Email digest type:
   • No digest (single email per forum post) - you will be emailed a separate email notification for every single forum post to a forum you are subscribed to. This can spam your email if you are subscribed to a busy forum, or many forums.
   • Complete (daily email with full posts) - you will receive one email per day with all that day's forum posts compiled on it, in full.
   • Subjects (daily email with subjects only) - you will receive one email per day with all that day's forum posts compiled on it in list format, showing only the subject lines. Click the subject lines to go to that forum post to read it (you may be required to log into Moodle to see the forum).
5. Click "Update profile" at the bottom.