Receiving email notifications for discussions you participate in, and groups that you join, can be a quick and easy way to stay on top of conversations and issues you care about in the Thinkfinity Community. You can stop receiving notifications at any time.

How It Works

By default, when you join the Thinkfinity Community, you receive email notifications for:

1. Home page announcements are created/edited.

2. Discussions, blog posts, documents, favorite resources, polls, and updates that you have created or commented on

     (Note: When you create or reply/comment on something, you will receive email notifications for every subsequent reply/comment)

3. Community email summaries (defaults to weekly).

You also receive notifications when you manually choose "Receive email notifications" on any piece of content.

How to Manage Your Email Notifications

To manage the amount of email notifications you receive for the Thinkfinity Community, you need to review two pages, accessible from your Profile.

1. My Stuff > Preferences: Email Notification Preferences

First, select My Stuff > Preferences from the gold navigation bar at the top of the page, and select the Email Notification Preferences tab.

Choose your email notification preferences for each type of notification and Save.

Note: Changing your preferences will not stop any email notifications that you are currently receiving. To stop those notifications, continue to the second step.

2. My Stuff > Overview: Manage Email Notifications

To stop any email notifications that you are currently receiving, select My Stuff > Overview from the gold navigation bar at the top of the page, and select Manage Email Notifications from the Actions sidebar on the right side of the page.

This page displays a list of every item you may receive notifications for on the community. To stop notifications on any item, select the checkbox to the right of that item and select Remove Selected Notifications.

We want Thinkfinity Community members in full control of the notifications they receive. If you take these two steps and still receive any unwanted notifications, Contact Us with the details, and we will work to correct your settings.

Christine

Community Manager

Thinkfinity search is  easy to use.  Simply type what you are looking for in the keyword box  and you will find many great resources from one of Thinkfinity's  Content Partners.

Below is information that can help you understand how  the Thinkfinity search works and several tips to allow you to become a  more powerful search user.

Search Filters

You can  filter the search results using option boxes available for  Resource  Types, Grade Levels, Subjects, and Partners.  Filter options should be  used when you are searching for results in specific areas as they will  greatly refine you search results.

Include Partner  Reviewed Resources

If your initial search results don't  contain resources that meet your expectations you have the option to  include resources from external sites that have been reviewed by a panel  of experts from our Content Partners.

Phrase search  ("")

By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are searching  the exact words in that exact order without any change. By insisting on  phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For  example, a search for [ "President Obama" ] (with quotes) will miss the  pages that refer to President Barack Obama.

Terms  you want to exclude (-)

Attaching a minus sign immediately  before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this  word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately  before the word and should be preceded with a space. You can exclude as  many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for  example [ poems -shape -diamante ] will return results for poems that  do not include shape or diamante.

The OR operator

The default  behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to  specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR  operator (note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS). For example, [  music classical OR jazz ] will give you music results about either  classical or jazz, whereas [ music classical jazz ] (without the OR)  will show pages that include both classical and jazz on the same page.  The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way,  is the default, so it is not needed.)

Other Search  Tips

• Search is always case  insensitive. A search for [ verizon foundation ] is the same as a search for [ Verizon Foundation ].
• Every word matters. Generally, all  the words you put in the  query will be used. However, words that are  commonly used, like 'the,'  'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored (these  are called stop words).
• Punctuation  is generally ignored,  including @#$%^&*()=+[]\ and other special  characters.
• Keep it simple.  If you're looking for a particular  concept or lesson, start with its name. Most queries do not require  advanced operators or unusual syntax. Simple is good.
• Describe  what you need with as few terms as possible. The goal of each word in a  query is to focus it further. Since all words are used, each additional  word limits the results. If you limit too much, you will miss a lot of  useful information. The main advantage to starting with fewer keywords  is that, if you don't get what you need, the results will likely give  you a good indication of what additional words are needed to refine your  results on the next search. For example, [ oil spill ] is likely to  give better results than the longer [oil spill in gulf of mexico].

All community members have a great deal of control over the visibility of their name and email and the frequency of their email notifications.

To change the visibility of your first/last name and email address:

1. In the gold navigation bar, choose My Stuff > Profile

2. In the Actions sidebar, choose Edit Profile

3. Under the First/Last Name and Email fields, choose the privacy setting that is right for you.

4. Please note that your username is always accessible to all visitors to the site—both members and non-members. Members can not change their usernames, but may request a change from our system administrator.

To change your email notification preferences:

1. In the gold navigation bar, choose My Stuff > Profile

2. In the Actions sidebar, choose Edit Preferences

3. Choose the Email Notification Preferences tab

4. Choose the notification settings are right for you.

Christine

Verizon Thinkfinity Community Manager