Types of Notifications Available

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Access Level: Administrator

This article is intended for users with Administrator access in Suitable. If you don’t have this role, some of the steps outlined below may not be available in your account.

Ineligible Roles: Student, Contributor, Advisor, and Publisher

New: News or Nudges and Linked Announcements can now be sent by email, or by push and email together.

Wondering what kind of notifications you can send to your students? Learn more about the four types below.

Shortcut to News or Nudges

Shortcut to Linked Announcement

Shortcut to Achievement Recommendation

Shortcut to Experience Set Recommendation

Keep in mind...

Notifications let you reach students on their phone, in their inbox, or both. You choose one of four notification types, how to send it, when it goes out, and which students receive it. To start, navigate to Notifications on the left sidebar and select the Create and Schedule tab.

Note: Email is available for News or Nudges, and Linked Announcement. Experience Set Recommendation and Achievement Recommendation are sent as push notifications only. Email notifications are an add-on that Suitable turns on for each institution. If the email options are greyed out, contact your Client Success Team.

For students to receive a push notification, they must turn their app notifications on: 

News or Nudges: 

• These notifications are a great way to share important information or ask students to take an action. Examples include:
  • News about a speaker coming to campus
  • Key deadlines for applications or submissions
  • Last-minute changes in event details
  • Career fair or orientation agendas
  • Asking students to update their account information, such as class standing or major

As a push notification, these need a headline of up to 120 characters and a message of up to 4,000 characters.

As an email, these need a subject line of up to 150 characters and a message of up to 4,000 characters. You can also add a pre-header of up to 150 characters, which appears after the subject line in most email apps. When you choose Both , you enter the subject line, pre-header and message once.

Linked Announcement: 

• These notifications help you drive traffic to a specific web page. When a student opens the notification, Suitable opens the web page you linked. Examples of links:
  • Satisfaction surveys
  • Event RSVP
  • Interesting websites

As a push notification, these need a headline of up to 120 characters and a link to any valid, publicly accessible web page. Include the full URL with https://.

As an email, the link appears as a single button. Add the label for that button, up to 120 characters, along with the subject line, optional pre-header and message.

Achievement Recommendation: 

• These notifications make it easy to advise and support students through specific activities and achievements. They are sent as push notifications only. Examples for this notification type:
  • An upcoming special event or series of events that can help students meet a requirement
  • Mandatory enrollment applications, assessments or completion surveys

These notifications must include the name of the target achievement and at least one recommended activity related to that achievement.

Experience Set Recommendation: 

• These notifications make it easy to guide students toward the activities that complete an experience set. They are sent as push notifications only. Examples for this notification type:
  • Upcoming events or available tasks that help students work toward completing an experience set

These notifications must include the name of the target experience set and at least one recommended activity related to that experience set.

Get more from Suitable 

Ready to send one? Learn how in Creating and Sending a Notification.

If you have additional questions, chat with us below or send us an email at support@suitable.co .