Manage Brightspace Notifications

Manage Brightspace Notifications

Access Notification settings 

  1. Select your name in the upper right corner. Select Notifications from the drop-down menu. 

    Notifications link on the submenu.
  2. Under Contact Methods, it will list your CUNY MS365 email. 
    Note: This email cannot be changed. 
Notification page displaying Pulse App and Contact Method email.
  1. Under Summary of Activity, select when you want a summary for each course sent via email. 
Summary of Activity selection to set how often you get notifications.

  1. Under Instant Notifications, view which specific notifications you have selected. It is recommended to have all selections checked off, especially Announcement Notifications. 

    List of Instant Notifications.

  2. Under Customize Notifications, select Include my grade value in notifications from Grades and Allow future courses to send me notifications, to not miss important course information.

    Customize notification settings.

Exclude Some Courses

This setting lets you exclude courses from Brightspace notification emails.

Note: Do not exclude courses you are currently taking. This will result in missing important course notifications.  This setting is helpful if you are still receiving notifications from courses you have completed, and you no longer wish to get those notification emails. 

  1. On the Notification page, under Exclude Some Courses, select Manage my course exclusions. 

    Select Manage my course exclusions link to access courses to exclude.

  2. In the pop-up, use the search bar to enter the course name you want to exclude, or find the course in the list below.

    The Manage Course Exclusions page with course entered in the Search bar.
  3. Select the X next to a course to exclude its notifications. The course will be grayed out, with a circular arrow to restore notifications. To restore all excluded courses, select Restore excluded courses.
  4. Select Close. 

  5. On the Notifications page, it will then list the course(s) that have been excluded from notifications. Select Save to hold all changes. 

    Excluded classes listed, highlighting Save button to hold changes.

For more information or assistance, please email Office of Digital Learning - Learning Management System Support at: LMS.student@jjay.cuny.edu