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Hello,

I am a non-matriculating student taking a graduate level course (term2 fall). According to the syllabus, there will be many discussions in this course. How will I know when a comment has been posted? Do I need to do something in settings to make discussions available?

Best,

Clueless

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Chris_Hofer

Hi there, @KatherineJensik ...

Super easy! You can configure your Canvas account to get notified about discussion replies by following the instructions in this Guide ... which is for your entire Canvas account as a whole:

How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as... - Instructure Community

Also, you can configure your notification settings per course...if you prefer to do it that way:

How do I manage notifications for a single course ... - Instructure Community

In addition, if you want to add additional e-mail addresses to your Canvas account ... so that you can also get notified about discussion replies to those e-mail addresses, too ... you can do that via the "Settings" page of your courses:

How do I add an additional email address as a cont... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Once you add one or more additional e-mail addresses to your Canvas account, then you can return to your "Notifications" screen, and you will see those e-mail addresses displayed as new columns where you can then set the frequency of how you want to get notified.

I hope this will help a bit. Sing out if you have any other questions about this...thanks!

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