About
Pulse provides teachers with a powerful tool to create personalized, adaptive learning experiences. Use notifications and reminders to (re)engage students and nudge them to complete their courses. No matter if you need better tools to monitor and improve the ratio of completed courses for compliance reasons, or if you want to increase and maintain a high level of user engagement, Pulse is there for you.
At its core, Pulse consists of two key components:
- The automation engine – A robust system that enables fully automated notifications and workflows based on predefined conditions such as course enrollment, activity completion, and user progress.
- The course activity – A versatile Moodle activity that allows teachers to send targeted notifications and manage completion workflows with flexible availability restrictions.
Keep teachers, parents (respectively line managers) up to date about progress of their children (direct reports) and enable them to take action when needed. With Pulse, teachers finally have a way to involve people related to the learner. At the same time, Pulse saves a lot of time because it works in a fully automated way, allowing teachers to focus on what actually matters: teaching. The Pulse framework is built in a modular way and thus new conditions and new actions can be added easily.
Use cases
- Course welcome messages
- Announcement of an upcoming activity
- Congratulations messages
- Reminder for overdue activities
- Awarding credits for achievements
- Approval workflows
- Implement gamification strategies
- and many more….!
Good to know: All features of Pulse Pro 1.3 are still available in Pulse Pro 2.0, but should be considered legacy features. They are safe to use, and we will continue to maintain them, but we strongly recommend to implement notifications using the new automation engine. If you want to use Pulse Pro on Moodle Workplace or Totara, please contact us.
Key features
Notifications and reminders
Automate course communication….
Deep learning path integration
Create dynamic and personalized learning pathways….
Automation engine
Scalable cross-course automation with monitoring and reporting….
Feature overview
Basic | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Notifications and reminders 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 integration 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 engine 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. | ✔ |
Choose your plan
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Pulse BasicFREE
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Pulse ProFrom: 199,00 € / year
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