With the latest version of Springboard, the notifications function has been expanded. If you previously were subscribed to Discussion notifications, then you likely started receiving daily activity emails from your courses. You will receive emails containing things like the number of unread Discussion messages, Quizzes that have not been attempted, Dropbox submissions that have not been graded, etc. While these summaries can be a great way to stay up-do-date with your courses, they can quickly become an irritant when you receive emails from previous courses. Notification emails are sent for courses that are active and within your availability window.
For students: This isn’t a problem unless your instructor removes the end date on a course. You can either email the instructor asking him/her to replace the end date, or add the course to your list of excluded courses.
For instructors: Because instructors retain access to a course after it has closed, you will continue to receive notifications for courses with items that require attention, such as unread Discussion posts or ungraded Dropbox submissions, even after the semester has ended. You will need to address the items listed in the activity summary, or add the course(s) to your list of excluded courses.
We have created a step-by-step guide for adding courses to your list of excluded courses in the Notifications tool, which can be found here: http://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/2291105.pdf. You can also turn off daily activity summaries by selecting Never from the How Often? dropdown menu in the Notifications tool.