In-app notifications

Notifications tell you what happened while you were elsewhere: a message, a reply, a badge, a payout. The bell in the header shows your newest 20 and how many are unread. View all opens the Notifications page with the rest.

What's on it

The bell

Your newest 20, unread ones highlighted. Choose one to open it, which also marks it read. Mark all read marks every unread notification read.

The Notifications page

Everything you have not cleared, under Today, Yesterday, This Week and Earlier, with a tab for each category.

Mark read, Mark unread, Clear

On each notification. Clear deletes it.

Mark all read, Clear tab

For the tab you are on. Clear tab asks first, then deletes them.

The categories

Rules and limits

• Notifications are kept until you clear them or delete your account.
• A direct-message conversation, a thread and a forum question each keep one unread notification for you. A new message updates it, and once you have read it the next one sends a new notification.
• The dot on Dashboard in the sidebar lights for unread Academic notifications and new course material. The dot on Social lights for unread Social notifications and new messages in rooms you have not muted.
• The dot on Achievements lights for a new badge or level, and goes when you open Achievements.
• To stop a kind of notification, turn it off in Settings → Notifications. See Notification preferences.

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