Choose what you get notified about
Push, digest, quiet hours, and how mentions cut through — tune Lumicura to be exactly as chatty as you want.
Lumicura is built so you can stay informed without being buzzed all day. Notifications are layered — what to notify you about, on which devices, how urgently, and when to stay silent — and you control each layer from Notification settings (in your account menu).
Two things people mix up
Your account settings say what you want to hear about. Each device also has to be turned on to receive push — enabling notifications on your phone doesn’t enroll your laptop, and the This device card at the top of the settings page tells you where the device you’re holding stands. See Turn on push notifications for this device.
The account-wide switches
Under What to notify me about, two push switches that apply to every device you’ve set up:
- a push when a new announcement is posted, and
- a push for new chat messages.
Per-channel: push, digest, or nothing
Each channel can then notify you its own way — from the channel’s own settings, set it to push, roll it into your email digest, or mute it for a while (soccer-tournament weekend, anyone?). See Mute or leave a channel.
Quiet hours
Turn on Quiet hours and pick your window (say, 10pm–7am) — nothing pushes during it, and anything from overnight is waiting for you in the morning.
Mentions cut through — mostly
When someone @mentions you, Lumicura treats it as “this one’s actually for you”: a mention notifies you even in channels you’ve muted or set to digest. The one thing mentions never override is quiet hours — sleep wins.
Email, texts, and the inbox
- Email digest — one summary email instead of a message per item, daily or weekly on the day you pick. See Set up your email digest.
- Text messages — for schools that use SMS, urgent announcements can also arrive as texts. See Turn announcement texts on or off.
- The bell — whatever your settings, everything lands in your in-app notifications list, so a dismissed banner is never lost. See Check your notifications inbox.
Until you choose, your school’s defaults apply
Every setting here starts on your school’s chosen default, and follows the school if the school changes it — until the moment you set it yourself, after which your choice is yours and stays put.
A sensible starting point
If you’re not sure where to begin: turn on this device, leave announcements on push, put busy chat channels on digest, and set quiet hours around your evenings. You can change any of it whenever real life disagrees.