Faculty/Teacher Emailing and Reminders
This feature allows a teacher to be sent a report of their courses attendance, automatically on a predefined schedule.
Automated reminders can also be setup if attendance is overdue for a session that a teacher is responsilbe for.
Navigation:
Navigate to Admin -> Attendance Notifications
On the right of the page, the list of existing notifications is shown, along with the option to add a new one: "Add Schedule"
Setting Up a Reminder for Incomplete Attendance
Title - The name of this rule, please use something descriptive to make sure its clear what it is doing.
Description - An outline of what this rule is doing
Schedule - Select the grey box to define how frequently this rule should run
Enabled - Is the rule enabled or not
Test Mode - If this is enabled it will only email alerts to the email address in the "copy emails to" field
Copy Emails to- An optional email address where all alerts can be sent to.
Email Subject - The subject of the email
Email Introduction - The body of the email. Note that the list of incomplete sessions will shows beneath this in the actual email.
Format - This should be set to 'Incomplete Sessions' when using this for automatic attendance reminders.
Attendance From Date: The lookback period start. In the example, its looking back to the start of the current week. It will only ever include currently active courses.
Attendance End data: The lookback period end. In the example, its looking up to the end of the current week. It will only ever include currently active courses.
Setting up an automatic report of attendance
Title - The name of this rule, please use something descriptive to make sure its clear what it is doing.
Description - An outline of what this rule is doing
Schedule - Select the grey box to define how frequently this rule should run
Enabled - Is the rule enabled or not
Test Mode - If this is enabled it will only email alerts to the email address in the "copy emails to" field
Copy Emails to- An optional email address where all alerts can be sent to.
Email Subject - The subject of the email
Email Introduction - The body of the email. Note that the digest report will render below this in the email.
Format - This should be set to 'Status tally by course students' when using this for automatic attendance reminders.
Attendance From Date: The lookback period start. In the example, its looking back to the start of the current year. It will only ever include currently active courses.
Attendance End data: The lookback period end. In the example, its looking up to today. It will only ever include currently active courses.
