Notifications

Semestra can show system notifications on your computer or phone, even when no Semestra tab is open. Turn them on in Settings → Notifications → This device, or in the last step of onboarding. Each browser and device is turned on separately; what you are notified about is shared by all of them.

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Reminders arrive at the time you pick, whether or not Semestra is open:

• Classes: when a class starts, or 5 to 30 minutes before.
• Events: one-off events, from when they start to a day before.
• To-dos with a due time: from the due time to a day before. To-dos due on a day without a time are counted in the daily summary instead.
• Daily summary: how many classes and to-dos today has, at an hour between 6 and 10 AM.
• Habits: turn on Daily reminder in a habit card's settings and pick a time; you are reminded then if today is not checked in yet (for a weekly goal: if the week's target is not reached yet).

Activity is only shown when no Semestra tab is open in front of you, since the app already shows it otherwise:

• Imports and background tasks: an import is ready to review, or an export, restore or model download finishes or fails.
• Canvas: an imported assignment in a linked course gets a new grade, or its name, due date or weight changes; new announcements can be included too. Checked every six hours, and each change is told once. These are shown even while the app is open.
• Sem approvals: Sem is waiting for you to approve a change.
• New sign-ins: someone signs in to your account on another device. This one is shown even while the app is open.

Clicking a notification opens the page it is about. Times follow the time zone of your current program.

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With Quiet hours → On a schedule on, nothing is shown between the two times you set (for example 23:00 to 07:00). Reminders that fall inside that window are dropped, not held until morning.

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• To stop one kind, set it to Off under Reminders or turn it off under Activity (for Canvas, choose Off). A habit's reminder is turned off in that card's settings.
• To stop everything on one device, turn off its switch under This device.
• Signing out stops notifications on that device. Revoking a session under Settings → Account does the same for the device it belongs to.

If the browser blocked notifications, Semestra cannot ask again: allow them for this site in the browser's site settings.

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Safari only shows web notifications from an app added to the Home Screen. Add Semestra from the Share menu (see Using Semestra on a phone), open it from the Home Screen, sign in, and turn notifications on there.