Tutorial walking students through setting up subscriptions, notifications, and settings in Falcon Online.

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DISCUSSIONS
Subscriptions, Notifications and Settings
in Falcon Online

2. 1. First Subscribe in Discussions
2. Choose what to Display in your Subscriptions
3. Choose how to be Notified of your Subscriptions
When you subscribe in Discussions: (to a Forum, Topic, Thread,
you select the Subscribe icon and subscribe within Discussions.
On the Discussions list page choose the second tab: “Subscriptions”
• select which subscriptions to display in Display options
• select your default Notification method
• select Notification frequency.
In the Minibar, in the Personal Settings dropdown settings,
choose Account Settings, select Subscriptions and choose how to be notified:
• Minibar alert
• mobile phone
• email
• in your ‘summary of activity’
• or all of the above.
OVERVIEW

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DISCUSSION
Subscriptions

4. Click on once to
Subscribe to a Topic.
Here it shows you are subscribed.
Click it again to Unsubscribe.
You can subscribe to
Discussions within
Discussions (shown
here).
There are two places
to select subscriptions
display options:
1. On the
Discussions page,
under the
second tab:
“Subscriptions”
2. In the Minibar
dropdown in
Account Settings,
you can select
subscriptions
and choose how
to be notified.

5. In the Customize Notifications pop-up window, select your
Notification Method.
Notifications are shown in the minibar and can be sent to your email
or phone. Your email address and phone number are entered in your
Personal Settings dropdown for Notifications in the Minibar.
Click Subscribe. Here, t also provides a link to Notifications.
(We’ll review Notifications soon).
When you Subscribe, the word
changes to “Subscribed”, and
the star icon is filled in.
GRID VIEW:
1. When you click the Subscribe
link within Discussions, a dialog
box pops-up asking how you
wish to be notified.

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In the Customize Notifications pop-up window, select your
Notification Method.
Notifications are shown in the minibar and can be sent to your email
or phone. Your email address and phone number are entered in your
Personal Settings dropdown for Notifications in the Minibar.
Click Subscribe. (We’ll review Notifications soon).
When you Subscribe, the word
changes to “Subscribed”, and
the star icon is filled in.
READING VIEW:
1. When you click the Subscribe
link within Discussions, a dialog
box pops-up asking how you
wish to be notified.

7. In the confirmation pop-up window, click Yes.
GRID VIEW or READING VIEW. When you select ‘UNSUBSCRIBE’
the same dialog box pops up asking you to confirm that you want to
stop ‘following’ (unsubscribe) to a Discussion topic or thread.

8. Welcome to the course. We’re very glad you’re here!Select the Discussions link in the Navbar
Subscription Display options in Discussions

9. On the Discussions page select the second tab, “Subscriptions.”
The second way to subscribe in Discussions.

10. Choose from the dropdown menu
which of your current subscriptions
to display then select ‘Apply’
(It does not let you subscribe here).
Note the blue underline slides over to the newly opened Subscriptions page.
These are your subscription
‘Display Options’

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Choose how you prefer to be notified.
Change your
Notifications settings.
How often do you wish to be notified?
This refers only to the
subscription(s) chosen:
“Discussion one – Introductions”.
Subscriptions page, continued
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But to receive Notifications of your
Subscriptions, you need to set up
your Notification alert system in
Notifications and Account Settings
in the Minibar dropdown.
Subscriptions page, continued

13. DISCUSSIONS Notifications

14. Welcome to the course. We’re very glad you’re here!Select Notifications in the
Personal Settings dropdown
Notifications

15. Choose Discussion Notifications,
but currently you can only be
notified through email.
The Notifications page opens
so you may choose how you
want to be notified.
“SMS”
refers to your
Mobile phone
Click “Save”.
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Notifications

16. DISCUSSIONS Settings

17. Select Discussions from the Navbar, select
Settings on the top left of the page.
Settings

18. If you change a setting,
select Save.
Here are three of the
‘question mark’
contextual help
clicked and
opened at random.
Settings

19. From Account Settings to DISCUSSION Settings

20. When you select Account Settings a
page opens that allows many different
Settings. Open the Discussions tab.

21. Selecting the tiny Question marks are contextual HELP and
when selected bring up an explanation for each setting.
Experiment to see which settings you prefer.
These are same settings whether from
the Discussion page Settings
or from the Minibar’s Account Settings on
Discussions from the personal dropdown menu.
If you change settings within a course it effects
all of your course’s Discussion settings.
If you change settings from your My Home page
it effects all of your course’s Discussion settings.
Settings

22. Experiment to see which settings you
prefer, and always select Save.
Yes, you’re back to the
same Discussion
Settings page.
Here are two
OTHER ‘question
mark’ contextual
help clicked and
opened at random.
Settings

23. In the Account Settings page that opens,
choose the Discussions.
Account Settings

24. If you change a setting,
select Save.
Settings

25. The End!
DISCUSSIONS
Subscriptions, Notifications and Settings
in Falcon Online