After a bit of a break, I'm pleased to announce the upcoming release of a new feature for myUMBC: Group Notifications.

One thing we've heard from group members is that once they join a group, they have to repeatedly go back to the group page to see what's new.  To make life easier, whenever new content is posted to a group, myUMBC will send a short email to all group members with a link to the new post. In addition to an email, when you log in to myUMBC, you will see a summary of new posts in the Activity dashboard in the upper-right of myUMBC next to your name.

Notification Settings

There will also be new page under your personal settings that will allow you to configure when and from whom you receive notifications:

• You will have to option of when to receive email notifications: immediately (the default), daily, or never. Even if you choose "never" you will still see the notifications in the Activity dashboard.
• You will be able to choose which groups you want to receive notifications from.  If you uncheck a group, you will receive no emails or entries in your Activity dashboard.

We hope this will make it easier for people to remain engaged with their groups, while providing an easy way to prevent yourself from being overrun with email.

We expect to enable group notifications some time this weekend.

We look forward to your feedback.

Collier