how to send course reminders in moodel

by Alexa Cartwright 5 min read

Click the Actions menuin the Moodle space. From the dropdown list, click Reminders. By default, the following reminders are enabled at a course level: Activity event reminders Course event reminders Group event reminders However, for activity and course events you must enable them individually if you want students to receive reminder emails.

  1. Turn the editing on within your Moodle module and within the module section, click on the 'Add an activity or resource' link.
  2. After you have clicked on the Reminder activity, you will be presented with the settings screen below. ...
  3. Click Save and return to course to complete the setup of this Reminder activity.
Feb 24, 2021

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How to add reminders in Moodle?

 · I am looking at using the reengagment plugin to send reminders to students to complete a course however it looks like it will only send 1 reminder after a certain time period. Does anyone know of a plugin or way to do the following? 7 days after enrolment, send reminder to user, 13 days after enrolment, send reminder to user, and

What are the different event types and when to send reminders?

 · We have recently made a decision of importing our courses to Moodle. However, there are a few issues we are running into. As part of our student onboarding process, we provide them with a bi-weekly assessment during the course of 6 weeks. ... We would like to send a reminder to our students based on the following schedule: 7 days before the due ...

How do reminders work?

New Features: (in v2+ which works in Moodle 3.5 or above) Ability to send reminders after event completed for overdue students. Ability to enable/disable and schedule reminders per activity. Explicitly reminder enables: By default no reminders will be sent unless teachers enable them in course level. Reminder email messages when calendar event ...

What is the calendar reminder plugin?

1. Reminders can be sent by customizing according to each event type. Separate message providers for each event type. Ability to customize message content according to event type. 2. Administrator configurations Administrator can enable/disable the process of sending reminders without uninstalling the plugin.

Introduction

The Calendar Reminders plugin creates reminders for Moodle calendar events and sends them automatically to relevant users in a timely manner via Moodle messaging interface. This is a local plugin controlled by the site administrator.

Features

Reminders can have customised delivery times/methods according to event types.

Installation

Fetch the plug-in from following location Reminders and download the latest version from the repository.

Settings

Enabled: This options allows to disable sending reminders temporarily without uninstalling the plugin. If not enabled, the cron cycles will be skipped.

Tips and tricks

If you want to change the cron frequency of reminders plugin, open version.php file in the reminders directory and change the value corresponding to $plugin->cron. That value must be in seconds and it is the interval between two cron cycles.

Features

Following features are expecting to package with the reminders plugin.

File Structure

Following shows expected file structure of the plugin. Plugin name would be " reminders ".

Explanation

Picking up relevant events to send reminders in advance is very important and critical. Reminders must be sent only once for a event on predefined ahead of days. Identifying such events has to be done efficiently and carefully. It shows below how it can be achieved.

Introduction

The Calendar Reminders plugin creates reminders for Moodle calendar events and sends them automatically to relevant users in a timely manner via Moodle messaging interface. This is a local plugin controlled by the site administrator.

Features

Reminders can have customised delivery times/methods according to event types.

Installation

Fetch the plug-in from following location Reminders and download the latest version from the repository.

Settings

Enabled: This options allows to disable sending reminders temporarily without uninstalling the plugin. If not enabled, the cron cycles will be skipped.

Tips and tricks

If you want to change the cron frequency of reminders plugin, open version.php file in the reminders directory and change the value corresponding to $plugin->cron. That value must be in seconds and it is the interval between two cron cycles.

Bugs and Improvements

Please report bugs and improvements on the Tracker using the Local: Calendar Reminders component.

Introduction

  • The Calendar Reminders plugin creates reminders for Moodle calendar events and sends them automatically to relevant users in a timely manner via Moodle messaging interface. This is a local plugin controlled by the site administrator.
See more on docs.moodle.org

Features

  1. Reminders can have customised delivery times/methods according to event types.
  2. Users can control how they receive calendar reminders in their messaging preferences.
  3. Reminders are automatically sent (as long as the system Cronprocess is set up).
See more on docs.moodle.org

Installation

  1. Fetch the plug-in from following location Remindersand download the latest version from the repository.
  2. Go to the 'local' directory inside Moodle root directory.
  3. Extract the downloaded zip file inside to this folder. After it is extracted, there should be a "reminders" folder in the local folder with a structure as shown in the project developer docu…
  1. Fetch the plug-in from following location Remindersand download the latest version from the repository.
  2. Go to the 'local' directory inside Moodle root directory.
  3. Extract the downloaded zip file inside to this folder. After it is extracted, there should be a "reminders" folder in the local folder with a structure as shown in the project developer documentation.
  4. Log into the Moodle site as the admin user. Usually the new plugin will be identified and notified you when logged-in. If not, go to Settings > Site administration > Notifications to detect and aut...

Settings

  1. Enabled: This options allows to disable sending reminders temporarily without uninstalling the plugin. If not enabled, the cron cycles will be skipped.
  2. Filter calendar events: Indicates how the calendar events should be selected before check them for sending reminders. There are three options.
See more on docs.moodle.org

Tips and Tricks

  • If you want to change the cron frequency of reminders plugin, open version.php file in the reminders directory and change the value corresponding to $plugin->cron. That value must be in seconds and...
See more on docs.moodle.org

Acknowledgements

  1. Mentors: Michael de Raadt and Rossiani Wijaya
  2. Special thanks goes to following people for providing language packs
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See Also

  1. Download location from plugin repository, Local Reminders
  2. CONTRIB-3647Automating Email reminders for calendar events project in Tracker.
  3. Plugin development Repository
  4. Forum post Local Plugin - Email Reminders for Calendar Events or for quick response in Github
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