20-090 Course reminders
Overview
OpenOlat can automatically send course reminders via e-mail to course participants, triggered by one or several conditions. Conditions can for example be: Opening the course for the first time, deadlines, subscription to Groups or passing tests/tasks.
Important steps
Reminders in courses
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Open your course via Authoring. Choose Administration and select Reminders. The Reminders tool opens. You can Add Reminder or Show sent reminders by clicking on the three dots. If necessary you can resend a reminder.
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If you choose the Add reminder button, the reminder creation editor opens.
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Write a Description and choose the Rules and Conditions for the reminder to be sent. Please note: Some of the conditions that have to be met are dependent on Course elements and can only work if the corresponding settings are configured and published in the course. Klick on Next.
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Check the conditions and the recipients and click Next.
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Enter a unique subject so that participants can identify the email as belonging to your course, and modify the prepared email text to suit your needs and the set condition.
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Click Finish at the bottom of the page. The editor will close automatically.
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If you want to edit, duplicate, delete or even manually trigger the reminder, click the three-dot menu behind the desired course reminder.
Reminders in course elements
In the elements Test, Task, Group Task, Assessment, Checklist, Scorm and Portfolio Task a reminder can be set up in the Reminder tab.
- Open your course via Authoring. Choose Administration and select Course editor. The course editor will open.
- Choose one of the possible course elements and go to the Reminders tab.
- With the button Add reminder you can create new reminders. In the three-dot menu to the right you can view the reminders that have already been sent.
- If you want to edit, duplicate, delete or even manually trigger the reminder, click on the three-dot menu next to the desired reminder.