admin/message 1 About notifications 2 Receiving notifications 2.1 How to disable the 'New sign in to your account' notification 3 Admin settings 3.1 Default notification preferences 3.2 New login notifications enabled by default 4 Notification types 5 Capabilities 6 Email 7 See also About notifications Notifications alert teachers, students and other users about events such as new forum posts, assignments needing grading or badges awarded. New notifications are highlighted with a number in the notifications menu at the top of the screen: Notifications icon with 1 new notification Clicking there displays any new notifications, along with the option to mark all as read (1 below), to go to the notifications preferences page (2) to change how notifications are received, and (3) to view all notifications. Recent notifications Clicking 'View full notification' displays the notification in a full list, whereas clicking the main body of the notification will take you to the location that the event happened, as in this example, to the assignment grading screen. Receiving notifications Along with a visible alert to new events in the notifications menu, users can configure how they are notified of new events via User menu > Preferences > Notification preferences or from the 'Notification preferences' icon (a gear cog) in the notifications menu. Notifications may be sent via the web, email, mobile (for Moodle Mobile-enabled sites) or SMS (for assignment notifications only and requires a SMS gateway to be set up). Notification preferences How to disable the 'New sign in to your account' notification Access Notification settings from the cog icon inside the Notifications icon at the top of your screen to the left of your profile. Disable the setting 'New login notifications'. (Note the admin can do this for the site from Site administration > Messaging > Notification settings.) Admin settings In Site administration > General > Messaging > Notification settings the site admin can enable notification plugins and set default notification preferences. There are 4 standard notification plugins: SMS (currently only for assignment notifications) Web Email Mobile. Notification plugins By default, web and email are both enabled, although email will only work of course if the site has been properly configured to deliver email. SMS and mobile notifications are off by default and need to be configured first. Mobile notifications require a Moodle app subscription. For details, see Moodle app notifications. SMS notifications require an SMS gateway. For details, see SMS gateways. Default notification preferences For each notification, you can enable/disable notifications and also the types of notification. If a notification type is locked, users cannot change it. All web notifications are enabled by default for all users in new installations of Moodle LMS. New login notifications enabled by default New feature in Moodle 5.3! The "New login notifications" setting under Site administration > General > Messaging > Notification settings is now enabled by default on new Moodle installs, with the Web, Email and Mobile notification outputs all forced on. Administrators are now automatically alerted through multiple channels if there is an unrecognised sign-in to their accounts, reducing the risk of an unauthorised login going unnoticed. Note: Mobile notifications in Moodle require a Moodle app subscription. Please see https://docs.moodle.org/503/en/Moodle_app_notifications. Moodle sites upgraded from an earlier version are not automatically switched over and therefore administrators are encouraged to enable the Notifications settings manually if it is not already active. A related security check is also added to warn administrators if any of the notification outputs are not forced on, or if the notification is disabled entirely. The Security message notifications and warnings can be viewed under Site administration > Reports > Security Checks. New login notifications for Administrators on new Moodle installs Notification types Module Output Name Description Recipients Assignment Assignment notifications Student has submitted an assignment. Configuration in assignment settings. Teacher Assignment Assignment notifications Student submission is overdue. Configuration in assignment settings. Teacher Assignment Assignment notifications Student has received a grade/feedback. Configuration in assignment settings. Student Assignment Assignment due soon notification Student needs to submit an assignment. Sent 48 hours before due date. In cases where the time between the assignment being created and due is less than 48hours, the notification is sent as soon as possible (source: ). Student Assignment Assignment overdue notification Student has not made a submission after the due date. Student Assignment Assignments due in 7 days notification Student needs to submit an assignment. Sent 7 days before due date Student Feedback Feedback notifications Notices from setting Enable notification of submissions in Feedback settings Teacher, Feedback administrator Feedback Feedback reminder Feedback non-respondent reminder message Student feedback activity non-responders Forum Subscribed forum posts Default for forum subscription handling Anyone subscribed to a forum Forum Subscribed forum digests A digest of forum subjects or subjects and posts if enabled in User - Forum Preferences, Set default for this in User default preferences Authenticated users Lesson Lesson essay graded notification Notify students a teacher has graded a Lesson essay question Student Quiz Notification of your student's quiz submissions Message that student has submitted a quiz Teacher Quiz Confirmation of your own quiz submissions Notice to student that your quiz was successfully submitted Student Quiz Warning when your quiz attempt becomes overdue See Quiz settings Student Quiz Notification that your attempt has been graded Message that a teacher has posted feedback on an Quiz activity Student Quiz Quiz opens soon Notification for students when they have an quiz about to open, sent out 48 hours before the quiz is available. In cases where a quiz is created and the time between the quiz being available and open is less than 48hours, then the notification is sent as soon as possible (source: ). Student System Notices about minor problems ? Site administrators System Important errors with the site Important errors - See also Debugging Site administrators System Available update notifications Notice of new releases of Moodle code Site administrators System Personal messages between users Using the Messaging interface tool Authenticated Users System Backup notifications Automated backup schedule run completed Site administrators System Course creation request notification Notice a course has been requested - See Course request Defined in Site admin > Courses > Course request > Course request notification System Course creation request approval notification Notice a requested course has been approved User who requested the course System Course creation request rejection notification Notice a requested course has been rejected User who requested the course System Badge recipient notifications Notify recipient of a badge when it is awarded to them Any badge recipient (typically Student role) System Badge creator notifications Notify creator of a badge when it is awarded to someone Any badge creator (typically Teacher or Manager role) System Comment posted on a learning plan ? ? System Comment posted on a competency ? ? System Insights generated by prediction models Notice of users that meet the Analytics criteria System Message contact requests notification Notifies users when a non-contact user attempts to send them a message Authenticated users System Asynchronous backup/restore notifications Notifies users when a backup/restore is completed message, see Course backup Authenticated users System Grade notifications Message that a teacher has posted feedback on an assignment Student System Course completed Automatic notification (congratulations note) about completing the course - sent to the student after all the course completion criteria have been achieved Student System Antivirus failure notifications. Warning message for Site Admin, see Antivirus plugins Site Administrator System New login notifications Warns a user if there was a failed login attempt with their username Authenticated Users System Course content changes Message that alerts students that a course activity was updated - activity title only, does not provide details about what has change) Student System Custom report builder schedules Notification of Report subscriptions, see Custom reports usually Teacher or Manager System Welcome message for new course enrolments Sends course welcome message to users added by manual or self enrolment Student Manual enrollments Manual enrolment expiry notifications Notice if Manual enrolment is about to expire Manual enrolees Self enrollments Self enrolment expiry notifications Notify users when if Self enrolment is about to expire Enroller only, or Enroller & Enrolled user Data privacy Data request Message that data review has been requested, see Data privacy Privacy Officer Data privacy Data request processing results Message that data review has been received and is processing, see Data privacy Authenticated User Data privacy Data requests exceptions notifications ? ? Inbound message configuration Message to confirm that an inbound message came from you See Incoming mail configuration Authenticated Users Inbound message configuration Warning when an inbound message could not be processed See Incoming mail configuration Authenticated Users Inbound message configuration Confirmation that a message was successfully processed See Incoming mail configuration Authenticated Users Event monitoring Notification of rule subscriptions Notifications from Event monitoring rules Event rule subscribers Capabilities The following capabilities can be applied as permissions to make custom changes to roles affecting messaging. course:bulkmessaging - Send a message to many people site:readallmessages - Read all messages on site site:sendmessage - Send messages to any user user:editownmessageprofile - Edit own user messaging profile user:editmessageprofile - Edit user messaging profile Email All email messages and notifications go to the email address set in a user's profile. The administrator can optionally allow users to choose to have notifications sent to a different email address. This is off by default and can be enabled in Site administration > Messaging settings. Users can then enter their alternative email address under Preferences/User account/Notification preferences: Click on the gear icon next to "Email" in the table header and enter the alternative email. Note: The 'messagingallowemailoverride' setting does not affect failed log in notifications as they do not go through the messaging system, and will therefore still go to the original email specified. See also Moodle app notifications - for how to configure mobile notifications. SMS gateways - for how to set up an SMS gateway for SMS notifications. Site notifications for administrators. Source: docs.moodle.org/503/en/admin/message — MoodleDocs (GPL) · Imported 2026-11-10.