Managing session notifications

Notifications can be configured on the session-level. Configuring session notifications allows you to keep students informed of enrollment details for individual sessions.

Notifications for a session are created when you activate the session notification. Otherwise, the details for the session are copied from the course notification.

	•	These notifications will be sent to the student from the instructor’s email address using the email system that was selected for the session. If there is no instructor, the email will come from the system administrator's email address.
	•	Notifications that are turned ON at the session level override notifications at the course level.
	•	Notifications that are turned OFF at the session level are overridden by the course level notifications.

The following notifications can be activated for the following session-based events:

Notification	Description	Contents
Enrolled in the course	Notifies a student of successful enrollment in a session	The session name
Removed from the session	Notifies a student of successful removal from or session	The session name
Added to the wait list	Notifies a student of being added to the wait list of a session	The session name
Removed from the wait list	Notifies a student of being removed from the wait list of a course or session	The session name
7 days prior to the start of the course/session	Notifies a student that the course or session is about to start	The session name and the start date
Course is completed	Notifies a student of course completion	Completion certificate attached
Prior to end of session	Notifies a student that has not completed or passed a course a set number of days prior to the end-of-session date	The session name
Discussion board posting	Notifies instructors when a post is made on the course discussion board	The content of the post
Post-Completion	Notifies a student a set number of days after completion of the course.	The session name

The emails use special text-variables that gets replaced with information specific to the user that is receiving the email. The text-variables that you can add to the emails are described in Editing the contents of a notification email.

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