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Send notification

Description​

Use this action to send notifications to users who meet the rule's conditions.

💡 In practice: this is the most common action for reminders, encouragement, and teacher alerts.

Improve notification delivery​

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Configure notification sending (Required only if you have the Datacurso Message Hub plugins installed)​

  1. Go to Site administration > General > Messaging > Notification settings

Notification settings

  1. In the Default notification preferences section, find Smart Rules AI notification and enable the option for Datacurso Message Hub.

Notification preferences
Notification preferences

Action configuration​

  1. Subject:
    Define the notification subject.

  2. Body:
    Define the notification body.

Send notification

  1. Placeholders
    You can use placeholders in the notification body to personalize the message for each user. Available placeholders:
    • {$a->coursename} - Course name
    • {$a->courselink} - Course link
    • {$a->fullname} - User full name
    • {$a->firstname} - User first name
    • {$a->lastname} - User last name

Notification placeholders

  1. Roles to notify:
    Choose the course roles that determine who receives the notification when the rule matches a user.

    • The matched user receives the notification only if they hold at least one of the selected roles in the course.
    • Additionally, other course users who hold any of the selected roles that the matched user does not hold will also receive the notification.
    • Roles already held by the matched user are excluded from the "other recipients" search to avoid duplicate delivery.

    Example:

    • Selected roles: Student, Teacher.
    • If the matched user is a Student, they receive the notification. Other recipients will be users with the Teacher role only (other Students will not receive this notification from this action run).
    • If the matched user has none of the selected roles, they do not receive the notification, but users with any of the selected roles will.

Notification roles