By default, pouako (teachers) and tauira (students) receive many notifications from eWānanga LMS. Notifications are important because they let users know when a specific action has taken place, or will take place and many of these could be important.
Notifications come in many forms and these are just some of them:
- Assignment submissions
- Assignment reminders
- Quiz submissions
- Forum digests
- Calendar events
- Announcements
- Personal messages
By default, teachers and students receive notifications both within eWānanga itself (via the notifications and messages menu), and via email. If you are enrolled on many courses or papers, you will no doubt get many emails, and you may wish to receive less of them.
NOTE: If you are a new user, we do not recommend you disable email notifications until you are confident you know how to check your notifications manually.
This is important, because Awanuiārangi cannot be held responsible if you have missed something important due to not receiving the notification.
The Notifications and Messages Menu
At the top of eWānanga, on the navigation bar, there are two icons like the ones pictured below. The bell-shaped one on the left opens the Notifications menu, and the speech-bubble-shaped one on the right opens the Messages menu.
1. Notifications
When you click the Bell the notifications are displayed in a pop-up menu.
If you click a notification from the list, you will be able to view the full notification and access action links. 
2. Messages
When you click the Speach bubble the messages are displayed in a pop-up menu.
If you click a message from the list, you will open the window where you can read the entire message and send a response. 
You can also access the Sender info and more options by clicking the three dots.
You cannot reply to a notification, only to a message.
Note: click the cog to check Notification preferences.
A little red number on either button means that you have that number of unread notifications or messages
To mark all messages as read, click the 'Mark all read' button in the popup menu as indicated below.
You also change your notification preferences by click the drop down button on the right of your profile picture then select Preferences.
Click Notification Preferences
Notification Preferences
(1) By default you will receive ALL notifications to your notifications menu in eWānanga. The majority cannot be turned off and are marked as 'Locked on' in the first column "Web". The visible toggle switch allows you the option to turn off a notification for specific preferennces.
(2) In the second column "Email", you can disable specific types of email notifications, simply by clicking the on or off button to change.
(3) In the third column "Mobile", you can disable specific types of mobile notifications, simply by clicking the on or off button to change
NOTE: You can only change notifications if the option is not locked. You cannot disable email notifications for personal messages or Message my teacher.