Preferences

Preferences is located in your Home site and allows you to set your preferences for OWL, such as email notifications, time zone, and language settings. You can also hide sites from your list of active sites.

Notification Settings

  1. Select Preferences from the Tool Menu in the left sidebar of your OWL Homepage.

    Screenshot of OWL Preferences tool

  2. Click the Notifications tab on top of the page to customize your notification settings.

    Screenshot of the Preference page with the Notifications link highlighted at the top of the page.

  3. Choose notification preferences.

    Some of the tools in OWL may send email notifications to you when certain actions are made by the site's instructor or maintainer. You may adjust the settings for low-priority email notifications for the following tools:

    1. Announcements
    2. Assignments
    3. Resources and Drop Box
    4. Email Archive
    5. Syllabus
    6. Tests & Quizzes
    Screenshot of the Notification settings page, with a list of tools that can have their notification settings adjusted.

    Each tool listed can be adjusted to one of the following options for low priority email notifications:

    • Do not send me low priority notifications.
    • Send me one email per day summarizing all low priority notifications.
    • Send me each notification separately. (Default setting)

    Note: These settings only apply to low priority notifications. High priority notifications will still be sent via email regardless of your settings here.

  4. Click the Update Preferences button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

    Screenshot of OWL with the Update Preferences button highlighted at the bottom of the page.
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Time Zone Settings

  1. Click the Time Zone tab at the top of the page to set your local time zone.

    Screenshot of the Preference page in OWL with the Time Zone link highlighted at the top of the page.

  2. Select your local time zone from the list.

    Changing your local time zone will adjust most times in OWL to show them to you in your local time.

    Screenshot of the Time Zone page in OWL, with a list of different time zones to select.

  3. Click the Update Preferences button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

    Screenshot of the Time Zone page in OWL, with the Update Preference button highlighted at the bottom of the page.
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Language Settings

  1. Click the Language tab at the top of the page.

    Screenshot of OWL Preferences tool. Displays language tab bar

  2. Select your language.

    Available language options in OWL:

    • Basque (Basque)
    • Catalan (Spain)
    • Chinese (China)
    • English (United States)
    • French (France)
    • Hindi (India)
    • Japanese (Japan)
    • Mongolian (Mongolia) 
    • Persian (Iran)
    • Portuguese (Brazil)
    • Spanish (Spain)
    • Swedish (Sweden)
    • Turkish (Turkey)

    Note: When changing languages, some terminology and title are subject to change.

    Screenshot of the Language page in OWL, with a highlighted list of different languages to select. Near the top of the page, your current language setting is highlighted.

  3. Click the Update Preferences button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

    Screenshot of the Language page in OWL with the update preferences button highlighted at the bottom of the page.
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Hide/Archive Sites

    1. Click the Sites tab on top of the page.

      Hidden sites do not appear in the top navigation bar or in your Sites Drawer; however, they will appear in your list of all enrolled sites in tools such as Worksite Setup and Membership.

      Note: Hidden Sites are still active in the system if they are published, and are still available to other enrolled users regardless of individual site display preferences.

      Screenshot of the Preference page in OWL, with the Sites link highlighted at the top of the page.

    2. Select the sites you want to hide.

      You are able to select sites individually or select a term to select all the course sites found under that term.

      If you want to show or unarchive a site, deselect the site from the list to have it appear in your sites menu or sites drawer.

      Screenshot of the Sites page in OWL with a list of terms and sites available to select to hide/show.

    3. Click the Update Preferences button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

      Screenshot of the Sites page in OWL with the update preference button highlighted at the bottom of the page.
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Editor Settings

  1. Click the Editor tab at the top of the page.

    Screenshot of the Preference page in OWL, with the Language link highlighted at the top of the page.

  2. Select your Rich Text Editor option.

    You can select auto detect based on browser size (default option), mobile mode or desktop mode.

    Screenshot of the editor page in OWL, with a highlighted list of different languages to select. Near the top of the page, your current language setting is highlighted.

  3. Click the Update Preferences button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

    Screenshot of the Language page in OWL with the update preferences button highlighted at the bottom of the page.
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