# Enabling Notifications in Ulmo (Tutor)

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/enabling-notifications-in-ulmo-tutor/18471>\
**Category:** Tutor Help\
**Tags:** tutor, tutor-mfe, tutor-plugin\
**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/enabling-notifications-in-ulmo-tutor/18471 "2026-02-20T14:53:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![john\_curricume](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/john_curricume/32/5295_2.png) [@john\_curricume](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/john_curricume)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/enabling-notifications-in-ulmo-tutor/18471/1 "2026-02-20T14:53:49Z")

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I’ve been working on an Ulmo install via Tutor for the Documentation and the Educators WGs.

I was able to get Entrance Exams up and running and shared some learnings there: [Enabling Entrance Exams in Ulmo (Tutor)](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/enabling-entrance-exams-in-ulmo-tutor/18265)

Now, I’m working on Notifications, and facing roadblocks.

I am following these instructions: [GitHub - openedx/tutor-contrib-platform-notifications: A Tutor plugin to manage configuration and plugin slots for the Notifications tray feature.](https://github.com/openedx/tutor-contrib-platform-notifications)

I installed and enabled notifications:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/7/7fc818b8d2eecf77d817b603d870c3d0f8c260a8.png)

I rebuilt the MFE container which was a bit of a bear ([documented here](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tutor-mfe-build-hangs/18376))

Then restarted my instance.

But no notifications in my Account ☹

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/b/bdf8241aad83feb6b4c2da612cd33f8870e004c9.jpeg)

Unsure where to go to debug at this point.

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**Author:** ![john\_curricume](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/john_curricume/32/5295_2.png) [@john\_curricume](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/john_curricume)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/enabling-notifications-in-ulmo-tutor/18471/2 "2026-02-20T14:59:37Z")

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Debugged and got further (possibly solved)

In this doc, it states that the required flags are set automatically:

> **[Enable Notifications — Latest documentation](https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/site_ops/how-tos/enable_notifications.html)**

But I found that they were **not** set automatically, in my case.

After adding these flags:

```auto
notifications.enable_notifications
notifications.enable_email_notifications

```

in Django Admin:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/f/f9041f536d5e76a814af52b73b7fae649a5285be.jpeg)

Now my notifications settings appear in account:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/openedx/original/2X/3/3e0bffae09456ab4381d392e3282ac671eca81d1.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![arbrandes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/arbrandes/32/158_2.png) [@arbrandes](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/arbrandes)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/enabling-notifications-in-ulmo-tutor/18471/3 "2026-02-20T19:28:22Z")

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@john_curricume, the trick is to run the following after enabling the plugin:

```auto
tutor local do init --limit=notifications

```

This should take care of creating the flags.