Notifications

A bell in the header, beside Help, telling a teacher when something about their teaching has changed.

It appears only for a signed-in teacher with a contact record at this music service, and not while you are acting for an organisation — an organisation's pages are the school's business, not a teacher's.

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

Only those two reach the bell. The office's own notifications in Xperios are a far longer list, and they stay at the desk: a teacher who is also a member of staff does not get office events here, and Mark all as read never touches them.

You do not need a desktop user account

The bell is keyed on who you are, not on having a user in Xperios itself. A teacher who only ever signs into the Portal has notifications like anybody else.

The count

The number on the bell is how many you have not read, asked for when you sign in, each time you move to another page, and every two minutes. Past ninety-nine it reads 99+. A check that fails leaves the bell exactly as it was — it never breaks the header, and it never reads zero just because the call did not get through.

Reading them

Click the bell for the last 30 days, newest first, with the unread ones marked and each one carrying a date.

Click one and it is marked read, and takes you where it belongs: a lesson change to that plan's timetable, a pupil connecting to Teacher Activities. Mark all as read clears the rest. With nothing to show, it says so.

While you are acting as somebody

Nothing is marked read while you are emulating another person, and Mark all as read is not offered. The server refuses it as well, so it is not something the screen is merely hiding.

The same notifications are in Xperios Mobile, sharing the same read-or-not state — so clearing them in one place clears them in the other.

See also

• My Schedules — the timetable a lesson change opens
• Teacher Activities — where a pupil connecting takes you