Activity Stream
See a bird's eye view of activities from all your courses, including grades and due dates, and jump directly into course activities from the list.
On this page:
Overview of Activity Stream
- See what's due and what needs your attention in your courses.
- Filter options include Show All, Assignments and Tests, and Grades and Feedback.
- Click on the entry's course name to go to the course home page.
- Click on the entry's item name (e.g., Due, Grade Posted) to get more information about that item.
- Set your preferences for activity stream, email and push notifications.
Changing Stream Notification Settings
You can also change notification settings on your profile page.
- Click on the Stream notifications link in the Global Notification Settings section. A new drawer slides out from the right.
- Choose which notifications you would like to appear on the Activity Stream page. Options include:
- Institution announcements.
- Course and organization announcements.
- Graded items due.
- Graded item due soon.
- Graded item past due.
- New content.
- Assessment added.
- Content added.
- Grades posted.
- New discussion.
- My grades and activity.
- No recent activity.
- Grade low or at risk.
- Grade dropped.
- Low course activity.
- Grade increased.
- Course activity up 10%.
- Grade in top 10%.
- New calendar event.
- New course or organization.
- Blog activities (entry posted, entry edited).
- Journal activities (entry posted, entry edited).
- Wiki activities (page created, page edited, comment posted.
- Click Save.
Changing Email Notification Settings
You can also change notification settings on your profile page.
- Click on the Email notifications link in the Global Notification Settings section. A new drawer slides out from the right.
- Choose the frequency of the notifications:
- Email me right away.
- Email me once a day.
- Select the items to include in the notification email:
- New grades and feedback.
- New messages.
- New discussion messages.
- New content added.
- New and upcoming due dates.
- Past due items.
- New courses available.
- Click Save.
Changing Push Notification Settings
Push notifications require the installation of the Blackboard mobile app on your mobile device.
You can also change notification settings on your profile page.
- Click on the Push notifications link in the Global Notification Settings section. A new drawer slides out from the right.
- Choose which activities to push to the mobile app. Notifications for due dates always appear in the app.
- New content and discussions.
- New discussion responses.
- New grades and feedback.
- New and upcoming due dates.
- Click Save. A new drawer slides out from the right.
Need additional help?
Use our contact form to submit a help ticket (you may be asked for your UBITName and password). After the form is submitted, a member of the UB Learns support team will follow up with you within one business day.
