Email Notifications

The Student Portal can send email notifications for students of a course on and after the start date of the course and when one of the following course event occurs.

New Post - Sends email notifications to course students when an administrator or teacher creates a post on the course feed.

Document is uploaded - Sends email notifications to course students when an administrator or teacher uploads documents from the documents tab of the course.

Assignment is posted - Sends email notifications to course students when an administrator or teacher creates a new assignment from the assignments tab of the course. 

Assignment submission is graded - Sends an email notification to the owner of the assignment submission when an administrator or teacher grades their assignment submission.

Note: Course notifications only go to students enrolled in the course. Trial and make-up attendees, and students whose enrolment has ended, don't receive them.

Setup Email Notifications

It is important to configure immediately the settings from Courses > Configuration > Student Portal > E-mail Notifications page.

The Default Design lists all of your email designs from the Website > Designs page. With this, you can use existing email designs or create a new one specific for the student portal emails that will be sent.

The From E-mail defaults to your site account email. Thus, it is important to change it to a no-reply email so you won't get any replies to your site account email when a student randomly replies to the auto-generated emails.

The From Name defaults to your site account name but can also be changed to something that identifies you as a sender.

Send Email Notifications Before a Class Starts

By default, email notifications are only sent once a class has started. However, you can enable email notifications if needed.

Email Notifications Page for Students

Under Settings > Email Notifications, students can choose whether they want to receive an email notification or not for different events that happen from their courses. By default, these options are turned on.