The title of the pulse is not visible to the student on the course page; it's used for administrative purposes mainly, e.g. on the reports overview page. It will be used by default as subject for the invitation.
Content
The content is used on the course page (and can be wrapped into a bootstrap alert box — pro only).
Notifications
The following notifications can be used:
Invitation
Name
Description
Send notification
Enable/disable the notification; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content
By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Re-send notification
Manually trigger sending the notification (again).
Notification subject
The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content
The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients
Choose which roles shall receive the notification
First Reminder PRO
Name
Description
Enable first reminder
Enable/disable the notification; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content
By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Notification subject
The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content
The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients
Choose which roles shall receive the notification
Notification schedule
Choose if the reminderr shall be sent at a fixed date (e.g. Oct 11th, 10:00am) or at a relative date (e.g. 2 days after becoming available)
Second Reminder PRO
Name
Description
Enable second reminder
Enable/disable the notification; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content
By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Notification subject
The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content
The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients
Choose which roles shall receive the notification
Notification schedule
Choose if the reminderr shall be sent at a fixed date (e.g. Oct 11th, 10:00am) or at a relative date (e.g. 2 days after becoming available)
Recurring Reminder PRO
Name
Description
Enable first reminder
Enable/disable the notification; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content
By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Notification subject
The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content
The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients
Choose which roles shall receive the notification
Notification schedule
Choose the interval, e.g. 1 week or 4 days
Completion criteria
The following completion criteria can be used:
Name
Description
Available on completion
Pulse will be complete as soon as it is available (i.e. not hidden or unavailable due to availability restrictions)
Self mark completion
Students can self mark complete — the difference to "manual" completion is that students can't revoke it and that a green badge indicates the time when they marked themselves complete
Require approval by role
Require a specific role (choose from any course context and user context role) to mark the student as complete
Add or remove credits to/from a custom user profile field. (best in combination with our enrolment plugin "Course Credit Enrolment")
Reactions PRO
The following reactions can be used:
Name
Description
Type
No Reaction
Rate
Let students rate the course (like/dislike) directly in their e-Mail client (no login required); use the placeholder {reaction} to place it in the notification
Mark complete
Let students mark complete something directly in their e-Mail client (no login required); use the placeholder {reaction} to place it in the notification
Approve
Let teachers/parents/line managers approve something directly in their e-Mail client (no login required); use the placeholder {reaction} to place it in the notification
Location
Notification only
Show the reaction in the notification
Notification and Content
Show the reaction in the notification and on the course page
Content only
Show the reaction on the course page
Appearance PRO
The following options for the design of the Pulse activity on the course page are available:
Name
Description
CSS class
Add a specific css class to the pulse activity; can be used to style it in a bespoke way
Display mode
Choose if the activity shall be displayed "normal" (i.e. only the content added in the general content area) or if it shall be wrapped into a bootstrap alert
Box type
If box mode is used, you can choose from the following presets:
Primary
Secondary
Danger
Warning
Light
Dark
Success
Box icon
If box mode is used, you can choose an icon which will be added at the left side of the box (font-awesome)
Presets
In order to simplify using Pulse, we have implemented presets that allow teachers to use pre-defined configurations of Pulse easily. Here's a screenshot of Pulse's activity administration page when creating a new Pulse activity:
