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Lena for Teachers and Lena for Students tell you when something needs you in two ways: a push notification on your device, and a note in your inbox in the app. Lena for Schools doesn’t send notifications.

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Turn on push notifications

1

Choose Enable notifications

A “Turn on notifications” banner shows until you decide. Choose Enable notifications. You can also go to Settings → Notifications and choose Enable next to Browser notifications.
2

Allow them in your browser

Your browser asks whether Lena may show notifications. Choose Allow. Settings then reads Enabled.
Turn push on separately on each device you use, such as your phone and your laptop. Signing out stops push on that device.
On an iPhone or iPad, add Lena to your Home Screen first (see Lena on your phone). Open Lena from the Home Screen, then turn notifications on.

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Your inbox

Choose the bell at the top of the page. It shows how many notes are unread.
  • Mark all read clears the unread count.
  • Filter shows only Unread, or only one type: Work, Grades, Discussions, Announcements or Courses.
  • Choose a note to open what it’s about. If it’s at another school, Lena asks before switching.
  • “You’re all caught up” means there’s nothing new.
A notification that arrives while you’re in the app shows as a small message with a button such as View grade, View reply or Open quiz.

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What you’re told about

  • Assignments: new assignments, and when your grade is released
  • Quizzes & exams: when one opens for you
  • Discussions: when a new discussion starts
  • Announcements from your courses
  • Replies: when someone replies to you
  • Due reminders: a day before an assignment or quiz is due
  • Grades by email: an email when your grades are released

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Choose what you get

Go to Settings → Notifications.
  • Push (“Notify me on my devices”) turns push notifications on or off.
  • In-app notifications (“Keep them in my inbox in the app”) turns inbox notes on or off.
  • Under Notify me about, switch each kind on or off. Each switch covers both push and the inbox.
  • To quieten one busy discussion, open it, choose ⋮, then Mute notifications. Unmute turns them back on.

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Troubleshooting

You, or your browser, said no when Lena asked, and Lena can’t ask again. Open your browser’s settings for Lena (often the icon to the left of the address), set Notifications to Allow, then reload the page.
Push is turned on for each device separately. Open Lena on your phone and choose Enable notifications there.
You dismissed it. Turn them on from Settings → Notifications instead.
Check that you’re online, then reload the page.

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Lena on your phone

Install Lena and use it on the go.

Your settings

Everything else you can change.