7.3. Notifications

You can view the messages you receive in your account and that you have sent in your Notifications area which you access from the top-right corner between Settings and Logout.

Access your Notifications area

7.3.1. Inbox

Your Inbox holds all the messages that you receive in Mahara and whose notification type you have not set to “None”.

Your inbox

1. Activity type: You can filter your notifications according to an activity type to see only a subset of all your notifications.

2. From: The user who sent the message.

3. Subject: The subject of the notification is linked so that you can click on it and read the text of the notification.

4. To: The user(s) who received the message.

5. Click the Expand icon to see all the recipients of the message.

6. Date: The date when the notification was sent.

7. Read: You can select individual or all notifications on that page that you want to mark as read. Notifications that are sent to your email are marked as read automatically, and you cannot select them.

8. Click the Mark as read button to mark the previously selected notifications as read. The icon for messages from other users changes into an open envelope when you have read those messages.

9. Delete: Select one or more notifications on that page that you want to delete.

10. Click the Delete button to permanently delete the notifications that you had selected for deletion.

11. Click the Delete all notifications button if you want to delete all notifications at once. If you selected a specific activity type, only the notifications matching this type will be deleted.

    Warning

    Once notifications are deleted, you cannot retrieve them again.

12. Navigate through the list of your messages with the help of the Paginator.

13. Maximum items per page: You can select how many notifications you want to see per page by choosing a different number from the drop-down menu.

14. You can see how many notifications you have in total.

15. Click the Sent tab to see the messages that you have sent.

7.3.2. Sent

Your Sent message area holds all the messages that you sent in Mahara.

Your sent messages

1. Activity type: You can filter your notifications according to an activity type to see only a subset of all your notifications.

2. From: The user who sent the message. In general, your name is displayed here as this is your Sent messages area.

3. Subject: The subject of the notification is linked so that you can click on it and read the text of the notification.

4. To: The user(s) who received the message.

5. Click the Expand icon to see all the recipients of the message.

6. Date: The date when the notification was sent.

7. Delete: Select one or more notifications on that page that you want to delete.

8. Click the Delete button to permanently delete the notifications that you had selected for deletion.

   Note

   You cannot delete all notification types.

9. Click the Delete all notifications button if you want to delete all notifications that you can delete at once. If you selected a specific activity type, only the notifications matching this type will be deleted.

   Warning

   Once notifications are deleted, you cannot retrieve them again.

10. Navigate through the list of your messages with the help of the Paginator.

11. Maximum items per page: You can select how many notifications you want to see per page by choosing a different number from the drop-down menu.

12. You can see how many notifications you have in total.

13. Click the Inbox tab to see the messages that you have received.

7.3.3. Send a message

You can send a message to multiple people in Mahara. When you clicked the Send message button on a person’s profile page or on the page “Find friends” or “My friends”, you can add more people to whom to send the message.

Send a message

1. Recipients: The person whom you selected to send the message to is added automatically to the recipient list. You can add more by starting typing and then selecting their name when they come up.

   Note

   It depends on the search settings of the site when you start seeing results for the names that you type. If the option “Exact user searches” is selected for the internal search plugin, then you need to type at least the entire first name for name options to be displayed. If the “Exact user searches” option is not selected, results start showing up as soon as you type the first letter.

2. Subject: Decide on the subject of the notification like in an email.

3. Message: Write your message.

4. Click the Send message button to send the message to the people in the recipients’ list, or click the Cancel button to abort your action.

You can view all the messages that you sent in your “Sent” area in the Notifications.