When creating a course, reminders may be created for learners. Reminders will send emails or SMS messages to learners before or after a certain point in the course workflow, at the time and date specified.
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The base reminder options are listed below. As course objects are As course objects are added, they will also appear in this list as Completion or Inactivity options.
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Inactivity reminder
An inactivity reminder is triggered at the specified period of time after a learner has started, but not completed a course object.
To enable a reminder:
- Navigate to the course.
- Click "Edit."
- Click "Course Settings."
- Click the "Reminders" link in the left tab.
- Check the "Enabled" checkbox.
- Type the number of days, hours or minutes in the "Days," Hours," or "Minutes" field.
- Select "Before" or "After" and specify the trigger by making a selection from the dropdown menu.
- For reminders to repeat, check the "Repeat" checkbox.
- Fill in the repeating increment by typing the number of days, hours or minutes into the "Days," "Hours," or "Minutes" fields in the "Every" section.
- Fill in the number of repeating reminders to be sent by typing the number of days, hours or minutes into the "Days," "Hours," or "Minutes" fields in the "For" section.
- To send a test to the administrator user, check the "Send test" checkbox.
- Type the subject line or leave the default in the “Subject” field. Available in 7.4.3.
- Type the reminder text into the "Message" field.
- Tokens may Tokens may be used in the reminder text.
- Click "Save."