Manage notifications

This article is for teachers and students. Guardians, go to About guardian email summaries. 

By default, you get email notifications for some activities, such as when someone comments on your post or your teacher returns work. Students and teachers can change their notification settings at any time. If you use Classroom on a mobile device, you need to update the settings on your device as well.

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Turn email notifications on or off

You can decide if you want to get email notifications about updates to your classes. 

1. Tap Classroom .
2. At the top, tap Menu .
3. Scroll down and tap Settings   Notifications  Email.

4. Next to "Allow email notifications," tap the switch Off  or On .

Important: This control affects most, but not all notifications. Examples of notifications you’ll still receive:

• Course changes, such as ownership transfer and copying a course
• Drive quota exceeded errors
• Abuse alerts for customer accounts
• Any notifications related to guardians

Customize email notifications

You can choose which email notifications you want to get for your classes. For example, you can turn off invitation notifications for all classes but keep assignment notifications on.

1. Tap Classroom .
2. At the top, tap Menu .
3. Scroll down and tap Settings   Notifications  Email.
4. Turn on Allow email notifications.
5. Next to each type of notification you want to get, tap the switch  Off  or On . 
   Refer to the tables below for a description of each notification.

Teacher notifications

Notification	Description
Comments on your posts	Someone comments on your post.
Comments that mention you	Someone mentions you in a post or comment.
Private comments on work	A student sends you a private comment.
Late submissions of student work	A student submits work after the due date.
Resubmissions of student work	A student resubmits work.
Invitations to co-teach classes	A teacher invites you to teach a course as a co-teacher.
Scheduled post published or failed	A scheduled post published or failed to post.

 

Student notifications

Notification	Description
Comments on your posts	Someone comments on your post.
Comments that mention you	Someone mentions you in a post or comment.
Private comments on work	A teacher sends you a private comment.
Work and other posts from teachers	A teacher creates an assignment, question, or announcement.
Returned work and grades from your teachers	A teacher grades or returns work.
Invitations to join classes as a student	A teacher invites you to a new class.
Due-date reminders for your work	You have unsubmitted work that's due within 24 hours.

 

Turn device notifications on or off

You can decide if your iPhone or iPad can notify you of updates from your classes.

1. Tap Classroom .
2. At the top, tap Menu .
3. Scroll down and tap Settings    Notifications  On this device.

4. Next to "Allow device notifications," tap Enabled or Disabled.

Customize device notifications

You can choose the notifications that you get for all of your classes on your device. For example, you can turn off invitation notifications for all classes but keep assignment notifications on.

1. Tap Classroom .

2. At the top, tap Menu .
3. Scroll down and tap Settings   Notifications  On this device.
4. Make sure that "Allow device notifications" is Enabled.

   See the instructions above to Turn device notifications on or off.

5. Under Device notifications, next to each notification that you want to get, tap the switch On . Refer to the tables below for a description of each notification.

Teacher notifications

Notification	Description
Comments on your posts	Someone comments on your post.
Comments that mention you	Someone mentions you in a post or comment.
Private comments on work	A student sends you a private comment.
Late submissions of student work	A student submits work after the due date.
Resubmissions of student work	A student resubmits work.
Invitations to co-teach classes	A teacher invites you to teach a course as a co-teacher.
Scheduled post published or failed	A scheduled post published or failed to post.

 

Student notifications

Notification	Description
Comments on your posts	Someone comments on your post.
Comments that mention you	Someone mentions you in a post or comment.
Private comments on work	A teacher sends you a private comment.
Work and other posts from teachers	A teacher creates an assignment, question, or announcement.
Returned work and grades from your teachers	A teacher grades or returns work.
Invitations to join classes as a student	A teacher invites you to a new class.
Due-date reminders for your work	You have unsubmitted work that's due within 24 hours.

Turn all notifications on or off for a class

You can choose to get notifications for specific classes. For example, you can turn off notifications for your Math class and still get notifications for your other classes.

1. Tap Classroom . 
2. At the top, tap Menu .
3. Scroll down and tap Settings   Notifications  Your classes.
4. Next to the class name, tap the switch On  or Off .

Read notifications

You can read notifications in your email program or in your device's notification center.

Related resources

• Create rules to filter your emails
• Create labels to organize Gmail

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