Minerva Activity page - Staff Guide

In this guide:

What appears on the Activity page
Managing your Activity settings and notifications
What students see

What appears on the Activity page

The Activity page features three sections containing (1) System Announcements as relevant (2) a stream of notifications from your modules and organisations (highlighting events such as new content, new submissions, new discussion posts, etc), and (3) a list of your available modules with recent activity.

The three sections of Activity Stream are shown in the image below.  Note that clicking an item in the Activity Stream will show you the content in a separate overlay, without you losing your place in the Activity Stream.

Modules

This list will show modules which are available to students, ordered by recent activity (although if you have Favourites, these will be at the top). If you have the role Module Builder, modules are not displayed here. You will see numbered icons to indicate:

• Items that need grading (paper and pencil icon)
• Messages (envelope icon)
• Students with access alerts - indicating students have not accessed the Minerva module recently (flag icon). The default flagged is no access for 15 days. This can be changed in the 'alert settings' available in the report the link opens.

Clicking on these icons will take you directly to the relevant part of the module.

Managing your Activity settings and notifications

You can change Activity settings by clicking the cog icon at the top right (see previous image) - this allows you to select which types of activity will appear in your notification stream.

By clicking on the envelope icon, you can also choose how often and why you receive email notifications:

• one daily summary of all activity OR emails received straight away
• when a certain type of activity occurs (e.g. new content, new blog or discussion post).

If you want to receive emails for Discussion activity, we recommend you use the 'Email me straight away' options as the 'Email me once a day' Discussion messages option is not 100% reliable.

What students see

Students only see a stream of notifications, which includes:

• Announcements
• New module content (including blog and discussion board posts)
• When an Assignment is due* (Blackboard/Turnitin)
• Grades being released

Students will also have some items, like overdue work, flagged as important. These will appear at the top of the feed in red, ahead of general updates.