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.

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.