## Preferences: Overview

### What they do

In My Workspace, you can set Preferences for how and how often you receive email notification of worksite activity, such as Email Archive messages, Announcements, and added Resources. You can also choose the worksites for which you'd like to see tabs.

### Key concepts

Notification methods: You may choose from several notification methods for Announcement activity, Email Archive messages, Resource activity, and Syllabus activity:

- Receive individually when posted: You receive email notification each time that an Announcement is posted, a Resource is added, or email is sent.
- Daily digest: Individual Announcements, Resources, Syllabus activity, and/or mail messages are bundled into a single email message and sent to you daily.
- Block: You receive no notification regarding low priority site activity.

Customize Tabs: By default, you will see a tab for each site to which you belong. If you wish to change which tabs are visible, click `Customize Tabs` and select the tabs for which you'd like to change the visibility.

### Things to consider

- You cannot have different Preferences for individual worksites. For example, if you change your Email Archive notification to "daily digest", you will get a daily email message from each of the sites to which you belong. Or, if you choose to block Announcements, notifications about low priority announcements will be blocked for all sites to which you belong.
- High priority notifications cannot be blocked. If you send a high priority notification, it is delivered immediately to all of your site's participants.