Custom notifications

Automation engine feature & Pulse activity feature

You have full control over the content, timing, and recipients of automated email notifications sent via our automation engine.

Flexible sender options:

Course Teacher or Group Teacher
A Tenant Role (Workplace feature)
Custom Sender (define any email address)

Smart scheduling & delays:

Send immediately when a condition is met
Delay delivery by a set number of minutes, hours, or days before or after the trigger condition
Recurring options: Send notifications once, daily, weekly, or monthly
Limit notifications to prevent users from receiving excessive emails

Targeted delivery & customization:

Define recipients by role, with CC and BCC options for better control.
Customize the subject and content of your email using placeholders for personalized messages.
Preview your email before sending to ensure everything looks perfect.

Alternative: Pulse activity notifications

Besides the automation engine, you can also send notifications via our Pulse activity. Pulse activities provide powerful completion and approval options, making it possible to trigger notifications in nearly any scenario – perfect for custom learning paths.

With Pulse activities, you can also set up:

First, second, and recurring reminders
Notifications using placeholders, just like in the automation engine

This is a welcome message sent to all students upon enrollment. The recipient is their teacher, and multiple placeholders are used to display specific course details as well as personalized content, such as the student’s name and the course’s due date. The due date is dynamically set using our Time Management plugin.

This notification is configured via our automation engine.

In this example of a welcome email, placeholders, a table, and symbols are included, along with images that make the mailing more engaging.

This notification is configured via our automation engine.

Check out this course

This weekly status email provides information about the current course progress, upcoming activities, and other events on the site.

This notification is configured via our automation engine.

Check out this course

Full list of features

	Basic	Pro
Notifications and remindersfeatured Automate course communication.
Custom notifications Keep students updated with custom notifications.	✔	✔
Placeholders Create personalized & dynamic communication.	✔	✔
Dynamic content Integrate book chapters and information about course activities (such as title, description, due date).		✔
Header and footer Add text, images, logos or other branding elements to notifications.		✔
Define recipients by role CC and BCC teachers (course context role) or parents (user context role).		✔
Reminders Schedule notifications at fixed or relative dates – once or recurring.		✔
Deep learning path integrationfeatured Create dynamic and personalized learning pathways.
The Pulse course activity Use anywhere within the course content to trigger actions at specific points.	✔	✔
Availability-based triggers Uses availability conditions as triggers for actions, enabling dynamic and personalized learning pathways.	✔	✔
Completion and approval workflows New, flexible ways to mark activities as complete and to request approvals.
Complete when available Allows an activity to be marked as complete the moment it becomes accessible to the user.	✔	✔
Non-reversible manual completion Once the student has marked the activity as complete, the student cannot revoke it any more.	✔	✔
Completion after approval Teachers/parents/managers can give their approval in a very simple and intuitive way.	✔	✔
Reactions Enable recipients of notifications to react directly from the email without being logged into the platform or integrate reaction modules directly in your course activity.
Mark as complete Students can simply mark as complete the activity.		✔
Rating Students can give a thumbs up or down to rate at any place within the content.		✔
Approval Allows users with a selected role to approve a student's completion of a Pulse activity.		✔
Confirmation for activity completion Integrate consent statements or other texts that have to be confirmed, approved or at least acknowledged by the student.
Confirmation types Choose your button: Acknowledge, confirm, choose or approve.	✔	✔
Add confirmation modal The user must confirm or cancel a modal with a custom text.	✔	✔
Credits Motivate students with rewards for completing modules or meeting criteria, supporting gamification, grading, and assessment.
Awarding credits The credits are updated in the user's profile field when the ad hoc task is running.		✔
Define a credit score Assign credits to your students giving them rewards for completing modules or meeting certain criteria.		✔
Styling and visualisation Customize the look and feel of your content within a Pulse activity.
CSS integration Integrate custom styling via CSS.	✔	✔
Display mode Define a boxed or normal style.	✔	✔
Box type and icon Choose from a variety of pre-designed box types and icons.	✔	✔
Presets Pre-configure settings that can be customized when used.
Managing presets by admins Creating, customizing and organizing presets for teachers.		✔
Using presets by teachers Easy set up of Pulse activities.		✔
Automation enginefeatured Scalable cross-course automation with monitoring and reporting.
Automation templates Ensuring consistency and scalability across courses while providing flexibility through automation instances.		✔
Automation instances Initially adopting the template’s default settings, but instances can be modified.		✔
Instance management Centralized system for managing automation instances, ensuring transparency and control.		✔
Automation conditions Serving as triggers for automation and depending on events or task completions.		✔
Automation actions So far there are only notifications, but there is more to come.		✔
Suppress notification criteria Smart reengagement through suppression logic – notifications only when needed.
Suppression by module Preventing notifications from being sent once specific activities have been successfully completed.		✔
Suppression by course completion Notifications are automatically prevented from being sent once a user has completed a course.		✔
Monitoring and reporting Monitor engagement, track automation effectiveness, and identify areas for improvement.
User interaction Reports on user interactions, including reactions, invitations, reminders, self-marked completions, and approval status.		✔
Automation schedule & notification queue Providing a detailed overview of all scheduled and sent notifications.		✔

Pulse

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Pro

Flexible sender options:

Smart scheduling & delays:

Targeted delivery & customization:

Alternative: Pulse activity notifications

Full list of features