Messaging
Chat messages, i.e. private and group messages in the environment can be enabled in the System section.
Do remember that even if the chat messages is not enabled in the environment, the courses can still use the discussion area on a course-by-course basis. The course discussion area is enabled per course in the course settings: Settings > Functions > Message board > On/off
Email reminders
In the Messages and Email Reminders section, the environment administrator can deactivate email reminders. If the function is disabled, users will not be able to set email reminders in their settings and will not receive any reminders on new messages, impending due dates or new results.
Reminder messages
The environment administrator may modify the title and text of the reminder message here. The reminder message can include language versions in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Estonian. Reminders can be previewed and content values can also be returned to the default values.
The reminder message preview shows all the possible message elements. The reminder messages that are sent to users do not show sections with no current reminders. At the end of the message, the user is also given the opportunity to check the settings of the function with a direct link.
Summary of messages and notifications
Outgoing messages immediately
A message to the user can be sent immediately if message sending is selected in connection with the function when
- create a new account
- change users username
- change users password
- add user to group/s
- add user or group to a course
- send an announcement from the course at once
- add user or group to a learning path
If Priima’s registration forms are used to create acoounts, then then the user will receive a message immediately upon registration.
These direct messages cannot be blocked by the user.
Summary message once a day
From Priima, a summary message is sent to users once a day according to these own message settings.
If email reminders are turned on in your environment settings. The user can choose to receive messages in their own settings.
The new events in your environment compose message contains the following content, and the message is sent once a day when there is content to send. Subject (Date of transmission of the message):
- The course has a scheduled announcement on that date.
- The message describes the course to which the announcement is related, as well as the title and subject of the announcement. There is also a direct link to the course.
- If the announcement has more than 1000 characters, only the first part is shown.
- Courses and mandatory assignments with a due date approaching (8 and 15 days before).
- A list of undone assignments whose due date is approaching or courses that are about to close.
- A list of courses and their required assignments when your own course membership is coming to an end.
- NOTE: There is no message about the return assignment when the assignment has been returned to the examiner. The message is sent if the task is in Not Returned or Returned for completion status.
- About unread messages (for 30 days)
- From unread Chat messages
- About unread messages in the discussion area
- From unread messages in the discussion block or blocks of the course or courses
- Of assignments to be examined (next night)
- When I am an examiner in the Return box task or Follow-up block and there is a new item to be examined.
- About new course and assignment completions (the following night)
- When the trainer has evaluated my mandatory task: Feedback task and follow-up block
- When the course has manual evaluation in use and when the trainer has added the course completion to me
- When I complete the learning path
- New people have registered for the course, i.e. registrations have come to be processed.
Transmission time can be set
In the reminder message about the due date of the execution, it is possible to specify how many days before the due date of the execution the message is sent to the user. This reminder message will be sent to students, course instructors, and administrators and managers. Learner cannot disable reminders regarding expiring course results.