User Guide

72 Chapter 5: Working with Courses
To set up course reminders:
1. On the Set Up Reminders page, select the option for the reminder notification timing that you
want, including the starting date and recurrence frequency.
2. Select the option for the recipients to whom you want to send the reminder; for more
information, see “E-mail reminder settings” on page 72.
3. Edit the e-mail subject and message; to use run time fields, select and copy the field name from
the Run Time Fields list to the right of the message body and paste it into the message subject
or body. Do not change any of the run time field text in braces.
4. Click Finish.
This ends the course creation process. The Course Information page appears.
E-mail reminder settings
The following are the settings for e-mail reminders and valid run time fields:
Notification Timing Setting for specifying whether to send reminders, and if so, when e-mail
reminders are sent to enrollees. You set the reminder start date and specify whether the reminders
are sent once, daily, weekly, or monthly.
Recipients Setting for which recipients receive reminders. The following are the possible
values:
• All enrollees (the default value)
• Enrollees who have not completed the course
• Enrollees who have failed the course
• Enrollees who have failed or not completed the course
• Only to specific e-mail addresses (you can enter the specific e-mail addresses in a text box, with
each user separated by a comma)
Run time fields Course information variables that you can use in your e-mail and that are
automatically filled in for you when the e-mail reminder is sent. The following are the run time
fields, shown in braces because they are variables:
{name} The current name of the course
{course-id} The current course ID
{description} The current course summary
{start-date} The current course start date, displayed in the format Saturday 12 July
{end-date} The current course close date, displayed in the format Saturday 12 July
Do not change any of the text within the braces in a run time field; if you do, it will not be
replaced.