You can customize your email digest by changing what's included in the digest, how often you receive the digest, and including or excluding followed categories from the email digest.
By default, the email digest is sent weekly and includes the following content:
- If you follow 1 or more categories, the digest includes personalized content from your followed categories
- If you don't follow any categories, the digest sends a combination of trending posts and posts from categories configured to be included by default in the email digest.
Customize Email Digest Options
You can enable or disable the email digest from your account settings page. You can also change how often you receive the email digest.
View Profile Settings
To access your account settings page, click your profile picture in the Navigation menu [1]. Then click the Account & Privacy Settings link [2].
View Notification Settings
In the Account & Privacy settings section, click the Notification Preferences link.
Customize Email Digest
To enable the email digest, check the Send me the email digest checkbox [1]. To disable the email digest, uncheck the checkbox.
To change how often you receive the email digest, click the Digest frequency drop-down menu [2] and select an option. You can choose to receive the digest daily, weekly, or monthly. By default, the digest is sent weekly.
Update Category Email Digest Settings
When you follow a category in the Instructure Community, you can choose to include that category in the email digest. By default, following a category also includes that category in the email digest.
View Category
You can only follow categories where the Follow button is present on the page. If the follow button is not present on a category page, you cannot follow that category. However, you may still be able to follow categories nested beneath the main category.
Add or Exclude from Digest
To view your notification preferences for the category, click the Following button [1].
By default, when you a follow a category it is also included in your email digest. To exclude the category from the email digest, click the Include in email digest checkbox [2]. To include a category in the email digest, check the Include in email digest checkbox.
