---
title: Set Notifications, Chat, Language, Theme, and WhatsApp
description: Control alerts, messaging permissions, sounds, display language, appearance, and supported channel connections.
audience:
  - member
product_area: preferences
topics:
  - Notifications
  - Chat
  - Language
  - Theme
  - WhatsApp
synonyms:
  - student
  - learner
  - member
  - dark mode
  - email alerts
  - sounds
routes:
  - /settings
  - /settings/channels
  - /settings/chat
  - /settings/language
  - /settings/notifications
  - /settings/theme
related_articles:
  - students/profile-account-and-security
  - students/calendar-and-events
  - students/members-following-and-messages
  - students/review-messages-and-ai-conversations
  - students/complete-a-private-practice-round
status: published
---

Open **Settings** to manage account-wide preferences. The current settings design groups related controls into sections and tabs.

## Notifications and chat

Choose **Notifications → Notifications** to review email and browser-push delivery, subscribed devices, messaging-channel links, sales sounds, and learning or tutor sounds.

Choose **Notifications → Chat** to control:

- sound and tab alerts for new messages;
- email notifications while you are offline;
- which joined communities may send you direct messages; and
- blocked-user status.

![The current Notifications section on its Chat tab, showing message alerts, offline email, messaging access, and blocked users.](/help/images/students/notification-settings.jpg)

If notification preferences remain in a loading state, refresh the page once. The Chat tab and sound controls can still be managed separately; retry delivery preferences later instead of repeatedly changing the same switch.

## Language and theme

Choose **Language → Language**, select the display language, and save the change. This setting affects menus, buttons, emails, and the AI tutor.

Choose **Language → Theme** and select **Light**, **Dark**, or **System**. System follows the appearance setting of this device.

![The current Language section with the Theme tab and Light, Dark, and System options.](/help/images/students/theme-settings.jpg)

## WhatsApp and other messaging channels

Choose **Connect WhatsApp** when a community has the channel enabled. Generate the short pairing code, open WhatsApp, and send the code exactly as instructed. The channel page can also show other supported messaging connections.

If no eligible community appears, ask its admin whether that channel is enabled. Never paste a pairing code into a public post or send it to an unrelated contact.

## Legal

- [Privacy](/privacy)
- [Terms](/terms)
- [Data rights and deletion](/data-deletion)