It's important for users to know how to manage account preferences such as: profile edits, setting subscription and notification preferences, and more! This article shows users how to manage account preferences in user profiles, as well as what options are available.
This is a Help for Parents & Guardians article helping school community members out with district and school websites. Are you a school leader? Check out the article, "Help your community users manage their account preferences" instead!
In this Article
To manage your account preferences, you'll first need to get logged in to your account.
- Confirm with district or school staff that you have a user account.
- Log in to the district or school website. Forgot your username or password?
- Navigate to the top left corner where you see your name. Hover until the dropdown menu appears.
Manage your Profile
Click on the Profile option in the dropdown menu.
Then, the Update Your Profile window will open up with your name and role(s) at the top:
Here you can complete the following tasks:
- Profile tab: Edit your Profile, change your Contact Information where communication will be sent.
- Picture tab: Change your Profile Picture, Upload a new image, or Choose from a directory photo
- Account tab: Edit your Account Info, change your password.
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Subscriptions tab: View the email address listed on your account, see Current Subscriptions and Message Notifications.
- Click Settings to manage your Notification Settings.
- Message notifications: Change where you will receive notifications.
- Logoff: Log out of your account.
Adjust your Notifications (and Preferences)
This is an important area that allows you to adjust and customize the volume of communication you receive from your student's district or school.
When selecting Notifications from the dropdown, a window will open that allows you to manage both Notifications and Preferences.
Notifications tab
- Expand out the items in the Notifications tab to see which communication lists you are subscribed to and which email address they will go to.
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Want to unsubscribe? Uncheck the box below a certain communication list.
- Manage other subscriptions button: Maybe you are subscribed to blogs or alerts on the website? You can manage those subscriptions here.
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+ Subscription: Want to add a Subscription or see which ones you've Unsubscribed to? Click the + Subscription button in the top right corner, expand out each list, and check the box to Subscribe or Resubscribe.
Preferences tab
Click on the Preferences tab to adjust your overall Subscription preferences.
Manage Email subscriptions
Expand out the dropdown to choose your Email Subscription Level Breakdown for your communication preferences.
Manage SMS/Text subscriptions
If you have a Mobile Phone Number in your Account Profile, you will see a number here with the label "SMS enabled." Expand out to adjust your SMS/Text message preferences, choosing from All Messages and No Messages.
Manage Voice subscriptions
If you have a Home Phone Number in your Account Profile, you will see a number here with the label "Voice enabled." Expand out to adjust your voice message preferences, choosing from All Messages and No Messages.
Email Subscription Level Breakdown
- All Messages: User will be added to any mailing list, and it is the user's responsibility to unsubscribe if not wanting to receive messages from that list.
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Invite Only: When user is added to a list, they will immediately receive a message that notifies them that they were added to the list, asking to accept the invitation.
- User won't receive any other messages from the list unless they accept this invite.
- User status will be listed as Invited until they accept.
- My Choice: Selecting this option means the user will be listed as Unsubscribed when being added to any mailing lists. User can add themselves to mailing lists by going to Notifications from their portal menu.
- No Messages: User will not receive messages from any mailing list as well as any board, calendar or athletic alerts to which they are currently subscribed.
Important Notes
- If after selecting No Messages, a constituent chooses to change their preference back to All Messages, they will have to resubscribe to any board, calendar and athletic alerts they would like to receive.
- Set the same preference for all email addresses associated with your profile, or to select different levels for specific email addresses.
- If, for example, someone wants to be contacted freely at their personal address but only receive the most important messages at work, they have that flexibility.
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