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Configuring notifications

Choose the type of activity on GitHub that you want to receive notifications for and how you want these updates delivered.

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Notification delivery options.

You can receive notifications for activity on GitHub in the following locations.

• The notifications inbox in the GitHub web interface
• The notifications inbox on GitHub Mobile, which syncs with the inbox in the web interface
• An email client that uses a verified email address, which can also sync with the notifications inbox in the web interface and GitHub Mobile

To use the notifications inbox on GitHub and GitHub Mobile, you must enable web and mobile notifications in your notification settings. For more information, see " Choosing your notification settings ."

Tip: If you receive both web and email notifications, you can automatically sync the read or unread status of the notification so that web notifications are automatically marked as read once you've read the corresponding email notification. To enable this sync, your email client must be able to view images from [email protected] .

Benefits of the notifications inbox

The notifications inbox includes triaging options designed specifically for your GitHub notifications flow, including options to:

• Triage multiple notifications at once.
• Mark completed notifications as Done and remove them from your inbox. To view all of your notifications marked as Done , use the is:done query.
• Save a notification to review later. Saved notifications are flagged in your inbox and kept indefinitely. To view all of your saved notifications, use the is:saved query.
• Unsubscribe and remove a notification from your inbox.
• Preview the issue or pull request where the notification originates on GitHub from within the notifications inbox.
• See one of the latest reasons you're receiving a notification from your inbox with a reasons label.
• Create custom filters to focus on different notifications when you want.
• Group notifications in your inbox by repository or date to get a quick overview with less context switching

In addition, you can receive and triage notifications on your mobile device with GitHub Mobile. For more information, see " Managing your notification settings with GitHub Mobile " or " GitHub Mobile ."

Benefits of using an email client for notifications

One benefit of using an email client is that all of your notifications can be kept indefinitely depending on your email client's storage capacity. Your inbox notifications are only kept for 5 months on GitHub unless you've marked them as Saved . Saved notifications are kept indefinitely. For more information about your inbox's retention policy, see " About notifications ."

Sending notifications to your email client also allows you to customize your inbox according to your email client's settings, which can include custom or color-coded labels.

Email notifications also allow flexibility with the types of notifications you receive and allow you to choose different email addresses for updates. For example, you can send certain notifications for a repository to a verified personal email address. For more information, about your email customization options, see " Customizing your email notifications ."

About participating and watching notifications

When you watch a repository, you're subscribing to updates for activity in that repository.

To see repositories that you're watching, go to your watching page . For more information, see " Managing subscriptions for activity on GitHub ."

You can configure notifications for a repository on the repository page, or on your watching page.

About custom notifications

You can customize notifications for a repository. For example, you can choose to only be notified when updates to one or more types of events (issues, pull requests, releases, security alerts, or discussions) happen within a repository, or ignore all notifications for a repository. For more information, see " Configuring your watch settings for an individual repository " below.

Participating in conversations

Anytime you comment in a conversation or when someone @mentions your username, you are participating in a conversation. By default, you are automatically subscribed to a conversation when you participate in it. You can unsubscribe from a conversation you've participated in manually by clicking Unsubscribe on the issue or pull request or through the Unsubscribe option in the notifications inbox.

For conversations you're watching or participating in, you can choose whether you want to receive notifications on GitHub or by email in your notification settings. For more information, see " Choosing your notification settings ."

For example, on your "Notification settings" page:

• If you don't want notifications to be sent to your email, deselect email for participating and watching notifications.
• If you want to receive notifications by email when you've participated in a conversation, then select email under "Participating".

If you do not enable "Notify me: On GitHub" for watching or participating notifications, then your notifications inbox will not have any updates.

Customizing your email notifications

After enabling email notifications, GitHub will send notifications to you as multipart emails that contain both HTML and plain text copies of the content. Email notification content includes any Markdown, @mentions, emojis, hash-links, and more, that appear in the original content on GitHub. If you only want to see the text in the email, you can configure your email client to display the plain text copy only.

If you're using Gmail, you can click a button beside the notification email to visit the original issue or pull request that generated the notification.

Choose a default email address where you want to send updates for conversations you're participating in or watching. You can also specify which activity on GitHub you want to receive updates for using your default email address. For example, choose whether you want updates to your default email from:

• Comments on issues and pull requests.
• Pull request reviews.
• Pull request pushes.
• Your own updates, such as when you open, comment on, or close an issue or pull request.

Depending on the organization that owns the repository, you can also send notifications to different email addresses. Your organization may require the email address to be verified for a specific domain. For more information, see " Configuring notifications ."

You can also send notifications for a specific repository to an email address. For more information, see " About email notifications for pushes to your repository ."

You'll only receive notification emails if you've chosen to receive email notifications in your notification settings.

If an organization you're a member of restricts email notifications to an approved email domain, you'll need to verify an email address in that domain to receive email notifications about activity in the organization. For more information, see " Restricting email notifications for your organization ."

Filtering email notifications

Each email notification that GitHub sends contains header information. The header information in every email is consistent, so you can use it in your email client to filter or forward all GitHub notifications, or certain types of GitHub notifications.

If you believe you're receiving notifications that don't belong to you, examine the X-GitHub-Recipient and X-GitHub-Recipient-Address headers. These headers show who the intended recipient is. Depending on your email setup, you may receive notifications intended for another user.

Email notifications from GitHub contain header information.

Choosing your notification settings

In the upper-right corner of any page, click .

In the left sidebar, under the list of repositories, use the "Manage notifications" drop-down to click Notification settings .

On the notifications settings page, choose how you receive notifications when:

• There are updates in repositories you're watching or in a conversation you're participating in. For more information, see " About participating and watching notifications ."
• You gain access to a new repository or you've joined a new team. For more information, see " Automatic watching ."
• There are new Dependabot alerts in your repository. For more information, see " Dependabot alerts notification options ."
• There are workflow runs updates on repositories set up with GitHub Actions. For more information, see " GitHub Actions notification options ."
• There are new deploy keys added to repositories that belong to organizations that you're an owner of. For more information, see " Organization alerts notification options ."

Automatic watching

By default, anytime you gain access to a new repository, you will automatically begin watching that repository. Anytime you join a new team, you will automatically be subscribed to updates and receive notifications when that team is @mentioned. If you don't want to automatically be subscribed, you can unselect the automatic watching options in your notification settings.

If "Automatically watch repositories" is disabled, then you will not automatically watch your own repositories. You must navigate to your repository page and choose the watch option.

For more information, see " Configuring notifications ."

Configuring your watch settings for an individual repository

You can choose whether to watch or unwatch an individual repository. You can also choose to only be notified of certain event types such as issues, pull requests, releases, security alerts, or discussions (if enabled for the repository) , or completely ignore an individual repository.

On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository.

In the upper-right corner, select the "Watch" drop-down menu, then click a watch option.

If you want to further customize notifications, click Custom , then select specific events that you want to be notified of, such as Issues or Pull Requests, in addition to participating and @mentions.

For example, if you select "Issues", you will be notified about, and subscribed to, updates on every issue (including those that existed prior to you selecting this option) in the repository. If you're @mentioned in a pull request in this repository, you'll receive notifications for that too, and you'll be subscribed to updates on that specific pull request, in addition to being notified about issues.

Choosing where your organization’s email notifications are sent

If you belong to an organization, you can choose the email account you want notifications for organization activity sent to. For example, if you belong to an organization for work, you may want your notifications sent to your work email address, rather than your personal address.

Under "Default notifications email", select the email address you'd like notifications sent to.

Customizing email routes per organization

If you are a member of more than one organization, you can configure each one to send notifications to any of your verified email addresses. For more information, see " Verifying your email address ."

Under "Default notifications email", click Custom routing .

Click Add new route .

Select the Pick organization dropdown, then click the organization you want to customize.

Select one of your verified email addresses, then click Save .

Dependabot alerts notification options

The notification options for your user account are available at https://github.com/settings/notifications . You can configure notification settings for each repository, in the repository watch settings.

To receive notifications about Dependabot alerts on repositories, you need to watch these repositories, and subscribe to receive "All Activity" notifications or configure custom settings to include "Security alerts." For more information, see " Configuring notifications ." You can choose the delivery method for notifications, as well as the frequency at which the notifications are sent to you. By default, you will receive notifications:

• in your inbox, as web notifications. A web notification is sent when Dependabot is enabled for a repository, when a new manifest file is committed to the repository, and when a new vulnerability with a critical or high severity is found ( On GitHub option).
• by email, an email is sent when Dependabot is enabled for a repository, when a new manifest file is committed to the repository, and when a new vulnerability with a critical or high severity is found ( Email option).
• on the command line, warnings are displayed as callbacks when you push to repositories with any insecure dependencies ( CLI option).
• on GitHub Mobile, as web notifications. For more information, see " Configuring notifications ."

Note: The email and web/GitHub Mobile notifications are:

Per repository when Dependabot is enabled on the repository, or when a new manifest file is committed to the repository.

Per organization when a new vulnerability is discovered.

Sent when a new vulnerability is discovered. GitHub doesn't send notifications when vulnerabilities are updated.

You can customize the way you are notified about Dependabot alerts. For example, you can receive a daily or weekly digest email summarizing alerts for up to 10 of your repositories using the Email weekly digest option.

For more information about the notification delivery methods available to you, and advice on optimizing your notifications for Dependabot alerts, see " Configuring notifications for Dependabot alerts ."

Secret scanning notification options

When a new secret is detected, GitHub notifies all users with access to security alerts for the repository according to their notification preferences. These users include:

• Repository administrators
• Security managers
• Users with custom roles with read/write access
• Organization owners and enterprise owners, if they are administrators of repositories where secrets were leaked

Commit authors who've accidentally committed secrets will be notified, regardless of their notification preferences.

You will receive an email notification if:

• You are watching the repository.
• You have enabled notifications for "All Activity", or for custom "Security alerts" on the repository.
• In your notification settings, under "Subscriptions", then under "Watching", you have selected to receive notifications by email.

For more information on how to configure notifications for secret scanning alerts, see " Configuring notifications for secret scanning alerts ."

GitHub Actions notification options

For repositories that are set up with GitHub Actions and that you are watching, you can choose how you want to receive workflow run updates.

On the "Notification settings" page, under "System", then under "Actions", select the Don't notify dropdown menu.

To opt into web notifications, from the dropdown menu, select "On GitHub".

To opt into email notifications, from the dropdown menu, select "Email".

Optionally, to only receive notifications for failed workflow runs, from the dropdown menu, select "Only notify for failed workflows", then click Save .

Organization alerts notification options

If you're an organization owner, you'll receive email notifications by default when organization members add new deploy keys to repositories within the organization. You can unsubscribe from these notifications. On the notification settings page, under "Organization alerts", deselect Email .

Managing your notification settings with GitHub Mobile

When you install GitHub Mobile, you will automatically be opted into web notifications. Within the app, you can enable push notifications for the following events.

• Direct mentions
• Assignments to issues or pull requests
• Requests to review a pull request
• Requests to approve a deployment

You can also schedule when GitHub Mobile will send push notifications to your mobile device.

GitHub Enterprise Server uses background fetch to support push notifications without sending your information to a third-party service, so you may experience a delay in receiving push notifications.

Managing your notification settings with GitHub for iOS

• In the bottom menu, tap Profile .
• To view your settings, tap .
• To update your notification settings, tap Notifications and then use the toggles to enable or disable your preferred types of push notifications.
• Optionally, to schedule when GitHub Mobile will send push notifications to your mobile device, tap Working Hours , use the Custom working hours toggle, and then choose when you would like to receive push notifications.

Managing your notification settings with GitHub for Android

• To update your notification settings, tap Configure Notifications and then use the toggles to enable or disable your preferred types of push notifications.

Configuring your watch settings for an individual repository with GitHub Mobile

You can choose whether to watch or unwatch an individual repository. You can also choose to only be notified of certain event types such as issues, pull requests, discussions (if enabled for the repository) and new releases, or completely ignore an individual repository.

• On GitHub Mobile, navigate to the main page of the repository.
• Tap Watch .
• To choose what activities you receive notifications for, tap your preferred watch settings. For example, choose to only be notified when you are participating or @mentioned, or use the "Custom" option to select specific events that you want to be notified of.

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Before You Start  

You need the following: 

• An active PennKey account (or authorized email address)
• Enrollment in a current course site

Canvas Global Notification Preferences & Recommendations

• Penn Canvas > Account > Notifications ( %20How%20do%20I%20set%20my%20Canvas%20notification%20preferences?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="steps for use in a web browser">steps for use in a web browser ) or 
• Canvas Student app top left menu > Settings ( %20How%20do%20I%20set%20notifications%20in%20the%20Student%20iOS%20app?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="steps for IOS">steps for iOS or %20How%20do%20I%20set%20notifications%20in%20the%20Student%20Android%20app?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="steps for Android">steps for Android )
• To add or manage emails where your notifications are sent, go to Account > Settings  and use the %20How%20do%20I%20add%20contact%20methods%20as%20a%20student?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Ways to Contact">Ways to Contact . Text messaging (SMS) notifications for announcements may also be enabled there.
• For best results with learning tools included in Canvas, set your How do I change my default email address in my user account as a student?">default (starred) email in Canvas to be the same as your primary email address in Penn Directory . 
• Frequency options are notify immediately, daily summary, weekly summary, or notifications off. These options pertain to all current courses.
• The specific score or grade you earn will not be included in a Canvas notification; however, availability to review a posted grade will be communicated.
• Push notifications must first be enabled in your Canvas Student app. If you do not see Push Notifications as an option under Settings, make sure you have enabled Notifications under your phone's General Settings, then close and open the app. Select Push Notifications and choose the fields you would like on your Push schedule. Once Push is enabled, further settings can be done either via web browser or in the app.
• We recommend that you set announcement, grading, invitation, files, submission comments, and appointment availability to  notify immediately.

Course Level Notification Preferences

You can set notification preferences by individual course, too:

• To do this, open a specific course and click the View Course Notifications button on the course home page.
• To override the global notification settings, set them on this page.
• To disable notification for a course, deselect the Enable Notifications for [course name] under Course Notification Settings.

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Manage Your Canvas Notifications

Canvas users at Illinois State University may manage their notification settings within Canvas in order to customize what, how, and when they are notified about certain types of activity in their Canvas courses.

Note: Default settings for Canvas Notifications are shown below under the heading  Default Notifications Settings .

Manage Your Notifications Settings

To manage your Notifications settings within Canvas , you will first set up your contact methods in Canvas Settings . Instructions for doing so may be found in the following article:

• Update Your Contact Methods in Canvas

If your contact methods have already been configured to your liking, you may manage your Notifications settings:

Select Notification Edit Scope

• Account: Selecting Account means that your Notifications settings edits will apply to all of your courses.
• Default Term: Selecting Default Term means that your Notification settings edits will apply to all of your courses for the current academic term.

Notification Methods:

• Email: The first Email column defaults to your ISU email address. Settings selected in this column determine if, and how often a notification for the activity will be sent to your ISU email account.
• Push Notification: This column controls settings regarding in-app push notifications sent on your devices (i.e. if you have the Canvas app installed and logged in on a mobile device).

Configure Notifications:

• Notify immediately: This will send an immediate notification to the Contact Method for the corresponding Course Activity.
• Daily summary: This will send one notification daily to the Contact Method summarizing daily activity for the corresponding Course Activity.
• Weekly summary: This will send one notification weekly to the Contact Method summarizing weekly activity for the corresponding Course Activity.

Default Notifications Settings

Default Notifications settings for Canvas users are as shown below:

• Administrative Notifications: Daily summary
• Content Link Error: Daily summary
• Global Announcement: Notify immediately

Course Activities

• Due Date: Weekly summary
• Grading Policies: Weekly summary
• Course Content: Notifications off
• Files: Notifications off
• Announcement: Notify immediately
• Announcement Created By You: Notifications off
• Grading: Notify immediately
• Invitation: Notify immediately
• All Submissions: Notifications off
• Late Grading: Daily summary
• Submission Comments: Daily summary
• Blueprint Sync: Daily summary

Conferences

• Recording Ready: Notify immediately

Conversations (Inbox)

• Added to Conversation : Notify immediately
• Conversation Message: Notify immediately
• Conversations Created By Me: Notifications off

Discussions

• New Topic: Notifications off
• New Reply: Daily summary
• New Mention: Notify immediately
• Reported Reply: Notify immediately 
• Membership Update: Daily summary
• Student Appointment Signups: Notifications off
• Appointment Signups: Notify immediately
• Appointment Cancellations: Notify immediately
• Appointment Availability : Notify immediately
• Calendar: Notifications off  

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Updating your notifications settings in brightspace.

You can modify your notification settings in Brightspace to get (or not get) email and/or SMS notifications for course updates in Brightspace.

Brightspace users will get notifications of course announcements, grade releases, discussion replies, and more through the  Notification Bell  near the top right of Brightspace (An orange dot on the bells means there are new notifications). Click the notification bell to see the notifications, which course the notification is for, and when the notification was sent:

In addition to seeing notifications in the bell, you can also choose to receive emails and/or SMS text messages with course updates by updating your notification settings.

Update Your Notification Settings

Update your notification settings to receive (or not receive) course update notifications by email or SMS:

• Log into Brightspace
• Near the top right, click your name/initials and select  Notifications
• Under Contact Methods , register your mobile phone number if you'd like to get any SMS notifications

• For any courses you don't want instant notifications for click the X to the right of the course to exclude it from notifications (the course will then be grayed out with a  circle arrow restart notifications icon)

• At the very bottom, click Save  to save your notification settings  

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Manage your notifications

You can change how often you receive email notifications for comments in Google Docs, Drawings, Sheets or Slides. In Google Docs and Sheets, you can also change notification settings for edits. You can choose whether to receive notifications through email or in your browser .

Important: Changes to notification settings will only apply to the file that you're on.

Manage notifications for comments

• On your computer, open a document, drawing, spreadsheet or presentation.

• All comments: You'll be notified about all new comments.
• Comments for you: You'll be notified about @mentions and threads involving you.
• None: Never receive emails about comments for that file.

Tip : You can also change your notification settings directly from the email notifications. When you receive an email notification for comments, click Notification settings within the email. Next to 'Comments', you can update your preferences for that file.

Manage notifications for edits 

On files in Google Docs and Sheets, you can change the settings to get notifications when others make changes.

In Google Docs

You won't get notifications when you make changes on your doc, but you'll get notifications when anyone adds or removes content.

• On your computer, open a Google Doc.
• Added or removed content : You'll be notified whenever anyone adds or removes content in that file.
• None: Never receive emails about edits for that file.
• You can also change your notification settings directly from the email notifications. When you receive an email notification for comments or edits, click Notification settings within the email . Next to 'Edits', you can update your preferences for that file.
• If there are too many edits or the document is too large, email notifications may not display all the changes. To find all of them, open the document.

In Google Sheets

You can only set up notifications for yourself. You won't get notifications when you make changes on your spreadsheet, but you'll get notifications when others make changes.

•  On your computer, open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets .
• Any changes are made : Set notifications when someone makes a change to a spreadsheet.
• A user submits a form : Set notifications when someone fills in a form.
• Email – daily digest : Send a daily summary of all changes.
• Email – right away : Send an email for every change.
• Click Save .

See who makes changes in Google Sheets

You can see who makes changes to your spreadsheet, depending on your level of access to a spreadsheet.

• If you're an editor: You can see the usernames of people who make changes.
• If you're a viewer: You can set notifications but can't see usernames.

If you want to set more specific notification rules, for example when someone modifies a certain range of cells, use Apps Script .

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How to edit and re-submit a peer-graded assignment, learner help center jul 31, 2023 • knowledge, article details.

If you want to make changes to a peer-graded assignment after you submit it, you can edit and resubmit your assignment. You should only resubmit a peer-graded assignment before your personalized deadline.

If you don't pass a peer-reviewed assignment:

• You can re-submit the assignment to be graded again
• If the deadline has passed, you might not get peer reviews
• If you've already completed peer reviews for other people's assignments, you won't need to do them again

What happens when you resubmit a peer-graded assignment

When you resubmit a peer-graded assignment, peer reviews and grades for your first submission will be deleted.

If you resubmit after your personalized deadline, you might not get feedback from your peers, and your assignment will be marked Didn't Pass. Learn how to solve problems with peer-graded assignments

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Edit and resubmit

To edit and resubmit a peer-graded assignment:

• Open the course you want to resubmit an assignment in.
• Click the Grades tab.
• Open the assignment you want to resubmit.
• Click Edit submission at the bottom of the submission page.
• If you have already gotten feedback, you'll need to confirm your choice to edit your project. Editing the assignment will delete any reviews you've already gotten.
• Make your changes, then click Preview to see the changes.
• Click Submit for review to resubmit your edited project.
• You can confirm that your updated assignment has been resubmitted by going to the GRADES page where the assignment will be marked as Submitted.

I can’t submit my assignment

If you can’t submit your assignment, make sure that your answers are all over the minimum word limit. Make sure to submit responses in full sentences so your peers are able to review your assignment.

You may not be able to submit your assignment if your answers are too similar to another learner’s submission. Please keep in mind that plagiarism is against the Coursera Honor Code. 

If you see a notification letting you know that your assignment answers are similar to another learner’s submission, you’ll need to update your response before submitting. 

Once you’ve updated your answers with original work, the Submit for review button will appear.

If you need more time to work on your assignment, you can click Save draft and come back to it later.

If you think you shouldn’t be seeing this error, you can click the link below the notification to let us know. You’ll be able to submit your assignment after you edit your answers.

If you aren’t seeing any error messages, but are still not able to submit your assignment, try these troubleshooting steps.

Attempt limits for peer-graded assignments

Some private courses (such as courses in a Degree or MasterTrack program) may have a limit on how many times you can submit a peer-graded assignment.

If there's an attempt limit for your assignment, you'll see an 'Attempts' section listed near the top of the page when you open the assignment.

If you meet the attempt limit and need help with your grade, you can reach out to your program support team. You can find your dedicated support email address in the onboarding course for your program.

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Change notification settings in Windows

In Windows 11, Notification Center is where you can find app notifications and Quick Settings—which give you quick access to commonly used settings and apps.

You can change your notification settings at any time from the Settings app.

Select  Start  , then select Settings  .

Go to System > Notifications .

Do any of the following:

Turn notifications, banners, and sounds on or off for some or all notification senders. To see all options, expand the notifications area.

Turn tips and suggestions about Windows On or Off .

Action Center in Windows 10 is where you'll find your notifications and quick actions.

Change your settings at any time to adjust how and when you see notifications and which apps and settings are your top quick actions.

Select  Start  .

Select Settings   > System > Notifications & actions .

To change notification settings for all senders, under Notifications , turn all notifications on or off, and change when and where you'll see your notifications.

To change notification settings for individual senders, under Get notifications from these senders , turn a notification sender either on or off—or select a sender's name and then turn on or turn off notification banners, lock screen privacy, turn notification sounds on or off, and set the priority of notifications.

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Adjusting assignment settings

Navigating to the assignment settings.

In your Learning Management System (LMS), launch the assignment you'd like to update. This will take you directly to the inbox.

If you forgot how to launch an assignment and get to your inbox in your LMS, check out Getting to an assignment inbox .

• In your inbox, click the gear icon on the right side of the header. This will take you to your Assignment Settings page. Your General Settings sections will be open first.
• General Settings (such as the assignment instructions, start or due date)
• Similarity Settings (such as when students get to see their Similarity Report)

Adjusting General Settings

• With the General Settings section open, you will notice that your Assignment Title is grayed out. Don't worry! This is because once you initially create the assignment you can only update the title through the settings in your LMS, not from within the Turnitin LTI tool.
• Instructions: These are the guidelines you'd like students to see to help them craft their submissions (2,000 character limit).
• Start Date: This is the calendar date and time you want to allow students to begin working. Students will only be able to submit once the start date and time have passed.
• Due Date: This is the calendar date and time by which students will have to submit their work. Students will not be able to submit anymore once the due date and time have passed.
• Once you’ve updated your General Settings , select the Save Settings button.

Adjusting Similarity Settings

Select Similarity Settings from the sidebar. This takes you to the Similarity Settings tab of your assignment settings panel.

Index Submitted Work

This setting is to set whether you want submitted works to be indexed. You may or may not be able to move the toggle and change this setting based on what your administrator has chosen.

Include searched repositories

Select or change the box next to each repository that you would like Turnitin to check for similarity. Turnitin will check submissions made to this assignment against every paper, article, website, etc. in the repositories you select.

Exclude from Similarity Report

Select or change the box next to the parts of a submission that you want Turnitin to ignore as it checks for similarity. Turnitin will skip over these aspects in all submission made to this assignment as it checks for similarity.

Exclude assignment template

If your students have been provided with a template document to follow or list of questions to be included within their submission, these can now be automatically excluded from the Similarity Report using this setting.

Upload the template or select Create Custom Template , copy and paste the text of your template into the field, then select Save Template .

Once a student has made a submission to the assignment, this feature can no longer be edited.

There are some requirements which must be met for a successful template exclusion. They are:

Uploaded file templates must be less than 100 MB. If your file exceeds 100 MB, you can reduce its size by removing any images or save the file as a rich text or plain text file. You could also copy the text from the file and paste it into the Create Custom Template text box.

Accepted file types for upload: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), and plain text.

Templates must have at least 20 words of text.

Display similarity score to students

Selecting the Immediately option will allow students to access their reports as soon as they are generated.

• Selecting Due Date will only allow students to access their reports after the assignment due date has passed.
• Selecting Never means you will see students' reports, but students will not .

Student Resubmission

This toggle will allow students to resubmit to the assignment an unlimited amount of times when On . Only the student's most recent submission will be shown within the inbox and previous submissions will be inaccessible. Set this toggle to Off if your students are to only submit once.

Save your changes

When you're happy with the settings you've chosen or changed, select Save Settings .

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Use automatic (Out of Office) replies from Outlook to tell people you won't be responding right away to their email messages.

Note:  If the steps under this New Outlook tab don't work, you may not be using new Outlook for Windows yet. Select the Classic Outlook tab and follow those steps instead.

On the View tab, select    View settings .

Select  Accounts  >  Automatic Replies . 

Select the Turn on automatic replies toggle.

Select Send replies only during a time period , and then enter start and end times.

Under Send automatic replies inside your organization , enter the message to send while you're away. (You can use the formatting options for text alignment, color, and emphasis.)

To set up automatic replies to other people, select  Send replies outside your organization , then add a separate message for that audience.

When you're done, select Save .

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There are two ways to send automatic out-of-office replies. The way you do it depends on the type of email account you have.

Select  File on the left end of the ribbon:

 ... then select the image below that matches your version of Outlook:

If you see the Automatic Replies button, follow the steps below.

If you don't see the Automatic Replies button, follow the steps to use rules to send an out of office message .

How to set up an automatic reply

Select File > Automatic Replies .

In the Automatic Replies box, select Send automatic replies .

Optionally, set a date range for your automatic replies. This will turn off automatic replies at the date and time you enter for the end time. Otherwise, you'll need to turn off automatic replies manually.

Note:  If you don't see Automatic Replies , use Rules and Alerts to set up your out-of-office message.

On the Inside My Organization tab, type the response that you want to send to teammates or colleagues while you are out of the office.

Note:  Sending automatic replies to anyone outside my organization will send your automatic reply to every email, including newsletters, advertisements, and potentially, junk email. If you want to send automatic replies to those outside your organization, we recommend choosing My contacts only .

Select OK to save your settings.

Turn off automatic out-of-office replies

When Outlook is setup to send automatic replies, you'll see a message under the ribbon with this information. Select Turn off to disable automatic out-of-office replies. If you want to modify the dates for your automatic reply or the message sent, use the steps above to modify your settings.

Update your Automatic Replies on the Outlook mobile app

Troubleshooting: i don't see automatic replies.

If you don't see Automatic Replies after selecting File , you're probably using a Gmail, Yahoo, or other POP or IMAP account that doesn't support the Outlook Automatic Replies feature. You can set up a rule that will reply to incoming messages—if you leave Outlook running while you're away. For more information, see use rules to send an out of office message .

At the top of the page, select Settings   > Mail > Automatic replies .

Select the Send replies only during a time period check box, and then enter a start and end time.

If you don't set a time period, your automatic reply remains on until you turn it off by selecting the Automatic replies on toggle.

Select the check box for any of the following options that you're interested in:

Block my calendar for this period

Automatically decline new invitations for events that occur during this period

Decline and cancel my meetings during this period

In the box at the bottom of the window, type a message to send to people during the time you're away.

If you like, you can use the formatting options at the top of the box to change the font and color of the text or customize your message in other ways.

If you want senders outside your organization to get automatic replies, select the check box for Send replies outside your organization .

When you're done, select Save at the top of the window.

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