send notifications(email) to students when they enroll the course

by Porter Yundt Sr. 8 min read

As soon as someone completes their online registration process, your organization should send out a course email: To provide recognition of the participant and inform them about the basic course details, including when the course takes place, how to access it, what materials they’ll need, etc.

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How do I customize the course enrollment notification email?

Jul 22, 2015 · Add email_to_user($user,$USER,'Enrollment Notification','The text of the message',$body); - Then save & check when admin can manually enroll a course to student then student will get the notification.

How to send email notification when assigning a cohort to course?

Jul 19, 2017 · In the handler function, check to see if $event->other ['enrol'] matches 'self' - if not, ignore the event. If it does match, then use the email_to_user () function (or, even better, use the message API) to send a message to all the relevant users on the course. answered Jul 19, 2017 at 13:08 davosmith 5,394 2 13 22 Add a comment 0

When should I send out a course email to participants?

Aug 20, 2020 · Select the Course Enrollment Report ; Click Find and select your course with sessions ; For Output format, select Comma delimited (*.csv) Click Run report ; In the report, go to columns AW – AZ at the far right of the document. If all of these columns are blank, this means that the student is not enrolled in a session. NOTE: You can filter the data for columns AW – …

Why did I receive an email about my course registration?

Nov 11, 2013 · I am new to Moodle and I want to send email notification to students when the users are enrolled to a new course. When a new topic is added under the course, then also the students should be notified. When the students completes the task or assignment, the notification is sent to the course creator. Please help me to solve this issue. moodle Share

How to set up a welcome email?

Set Up Your Course Welcome Email 1 Go to Support Your Students 2 Select Notifications 3 Make sure you are on the Student notifications tab 4 Select Course welcome email from the left menu 5 Scroll through the list to locate your desired course and click Edit 6 From here you can start customizing! You can include a custom Email subject and Email body. The Email body includes a text editor to add your own branding, images and more. You'll also see some email variables included by default; see below for how to set them up! 7 Click Save at the top right periodically to make sure you don't lose any changes! 8 Optional: If you'd like to cc yourself or another person, you can include an email under When sending this email, also cc. You can select a Site Admin from the dropdown menu or type an email into the field. 9 Once you are happy with your customizations, c lick the toggle at the top of the page to turn on the notification (a notification is on when the toggle appears yellow and is on the right) 10 Click Save to apply changes

What is a welcome email?

Course welcome emails are another useful way of interacting with your students and give you a chance of briefing your students on what to expect from the course. You can decide which (or all) of your courses have welcome emails.

Do you get a welcome email when you enroll in a course?

No, course welcome emails are only sent when a student enrolls in the full version of the course. If a student first enrolls into a Free Preview, then later enrolls into the full course, they will then receive the course welcome email you've configured.

What is a course registration confirmation email?

Course registration confirmation emails are also an opportunity to open up a channel of communication between registrants and your organization. Your registrants should be able to ask any pertinent questions when they arise, so ensure you include contact details for your organization or an assigned staff member.

What is a reminder for a registrant?

To remind your registrants about any deadlines or other important dates for the online course.

What is token in course?

Tokens are basically the spaces in your course confirmation email that are populated by information from your database. The “First Name”, “Course Name”, “Balance Due” and “Incomplete Forms” tokens are used most.

How to increase email conversion rate?

Personalized emails equal higher conversion and open rates. “Conversion rate” is just a fancy way of saying you got the recipient to do what you wanted them to do— open the email, read it, click a link, etc.

What is a signature?

The signature includes email, website, and phone number. If someone wants to respond, they will probably hit reply. However, sometimes they look to your signature for more contact options. Providing this information where it’s easily found is part of overall great customer service.

Do people read emails?

Most people don’t read a full email from beginning to end. Make sure the meat of your message stands out. If their eye is drawn to their balance due, they will understand they have an action item and get on it!

Email Notification for each course enrollment

I would like to know if I can turn off email notification of course enrollment for one or two courses.

Re: Email Notification for each course enrollment

At this point there is no way to customize the course enrollment notification email without some custom coding to do so. To edit the course enrollment email you can follow these steps: 1. In the site administration menu, click on Language 2. Then click on the Language Editing option 3.

Re: Email Notification for each course enrollment

No need to change language strings. In Moodle 2.3.1 you have ENROLMENT METHODS in every course. So you can change the custom WELCOME Message inside the SELFENROLMENT Method:

Re: Email Notification for each course enrollment

i like to send email notification to users for course enrollment, can you please help me. thanks in advance.

Re: Email Notification for each course enrollment

I worked around it and there is a programming tweak for sending notification to users for course enrollment.

Re: Email Notification for each course enrollment

Hi there, I know that this is a old post, but I want to implement this very same functionality

Re: Email Notification for each course enrollment

Hi Mauro Villoldo, I can't find out where am I put this code. May you please help me where am I put this code, I need this same functionality.

How are notifications sent?

Notifications are automatically sent based on an event taking place in the platform and the event's associated conditions. Each notification is tied to an event, and each event is tied to a schedule, an audience, and a recipient type.

What is a notification app?

The Notifications app allows you to create and send event-specific, dynamic-content notifications to targeted user audiences through email, the Notifications area in the platform, or via Docebo's integration with Slack.

How to send a notification on Slack?

If you want to send a Slack notification, at the bottom of the General Settings tab, check the Slack checkbox to active the Slack tab. Now, access that tab. At the top of this tab, flag whether the notification will be sent as a direct message to each Slack user or if it will be sent to a Slack channel.

What is digest notification?

Digest notifications group multiple notifications about the same type of event into one larger notification. For example, instead of receiving seven separate notifications about courses that are not yet completed, the user will receive one notification with a list of the courses that he or she has yet to complete.

Can instructors receive notifications?

When doing so, remember that roles may overlap with levels, so if you set up a notification for users and a notification for instructors, some instructors may receive both notifications, since they have been assigned to one or more courses as instructors, but their user level in the platform may be user.

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About This Feature

  • Course welcome emails are another useful way of interacting with your students and give you a chance of briefing your students on what to expect from the course. You can decide which (or all) of your courses have welcome emails. Course welcome emails are sent out to the student upon registration for a particular course and are customizable on a per-course basis.
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Set Up Your Course Welcome Email

  1. Go to Support Your Students
  2. Select Notifications
  3. Make sure you are on the Student notificationstab
  4. Select Course welcome emailfrom the left menu
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Variables

  • You can also use variables to automatically pull in the student's name, course name, and more. Simply copy and paste a variable into the Email subject or Email body. Available variables are: 1. {{user_full_name}} 2. {{user_first_name}} 3. {{user_last_name}} 4. {{user_email}} 5. {{course_name}} 6. {{site_name}} — Name of your school 7. {{site_url}} 8. {{sign_in_url}} 9. {{edit_…
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • A student just enrolled into the Free Preview of one of my courses. Do they still receive the cours…
    No, course welcome emails are only sent when a student enrolls in the full version of the course. If a student first enrolls into a Free Preview, then later enrolls into the full course, they will then receive the course welcome email you've configured.
  • A student just enrolled in a Pre-Order of one of my courses. Do they still receive the course welc…
    Yes, students who enroll in courses set to pre-orderwill also receive the course welcome email if it is enabled for any of those courses.
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