Notifications
Notifications are alerts from Blackboard that are sent when certain events happen in your course, such as a student sending you a message though Blackboard or a test becoming available to students. Notifications appear on your Blackboard dashboard. Instructors and students can select which events will create Notifications, and can have Notifications forwarded to thier UMass email account.
A full list of events which create notifications can be found on Blackboard Learn's Notification Settings Page.
Information about Blackboard notifications from the student perspective can be found on the Notifications Student Orientation and Resource page.