Using the Calendar & Notifications

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Find and navigate the calendar

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Global Calendar

From the global calendar in the list where your name appears, you can see all your upcoming due dates and meetings across your courses—all in one place.

In your calendar, find this event information:

• Office hours. These appointments appear automatically on the calendar when an instructor adds them to a course.

• Due dates. Assignment due dates appear automatically on your calendar.

   

Blackboard Original Course calendar

You can access the calendar from your course’s Tool Panel or Calendar tool link.

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Notification settings

If you see a list where your name appears, your courses appear in the Ultra experience. The notification system is always on.

On your activity stream's Notification Settings panel, you can choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your Original and Ultra courses:

• Activity stream: Choose which activities appear on your Streampage.

• Email: If you want to receive email notifications, add an email address to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.

• SMS: If you want to receive SMS text messages on your mobile phone, add a phone number to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.

• Push notifications: Messages pop up on your mobile device if you have the Blackboard app for students installed. You can select which notifications are sent to your device.