Notifications

A bell beside the user menu, which tells you when something about your teaching has changed without your having to go looking for it.

The bell appears only for a teacher with a record at this music service. Parents, pupils and school contacts do not have one.

What it tells you

A lesson has changed	One of your lessons has been moved, cancelled or re-laid
A pupil has connected	A pupil has joined one of your lessons

Those two are a teacher's. The office has its own, much longer, list of events in Xperios itself, and this is deliberately not that: the app shows you only what is yours, so a teacher who is also a member of staff still sees office events at the desk and not here.

The count

The number on the bell is how many you have not read. It is asked for when the app opens, each time you move to another page, and every two minutes while you have a signal. Past ninety-nine it reads 99+.

A check that fails changes nothing. The count stays as it was rather than dropping to zero and telling you there is nothing there.

Reading them

Tap the bell for the last 30 days, newest first, with the unread ones marked.

Tap one and two things happen: it is marked read, and the app takes you to what it is about — a lesson change opens that block's timetable, and a pupil connecting opens Teaching > My pupils, where the pupil now is. Back returns you to the list.

Mark all as read clears the rest without opening them one at a time.

While you are acting as somebody

Through Staff tools > Act as someone, nothing is marked read — not by opening one, and Mark all as read is not offered at all. Their unread list is theirs, and reading it on their behalf does not spend it.

It is not a push notification

The app checks while it is open. It does not wake your phone or put anything on your lock screen, so the bell is something you glance at rather than something that interrupts you. The same notifications are on the Portal, on the same read-or-not state, so clearing them in one place clears them in the other.

See also

• Teaching on a phone — the lessons the notifications take you to
• Notifications on the Portal — the same bell, in a browser
• Signing in and your account — Staff tools, and acting as somebody else