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Instructor Emailing (Attendance Reminders)
introduction instructor emails allow you to setup automated reminders for when attendance has not been collected in a timely manner automated attendance digests (reports) can also be sent out important notes when using this feature for the first time, please ask your account rep to ensure instructor emailing is enabled in the settings to access instructor emailing in the admin portal, navigate to admin > attendance notifications your existing rules/alerts and the option to create a new one, are on the right hand side configuration screen configuration title a useful name for future reference this will show as the name of this alert on the main alerts page it is not the email reminder subject description a useful description of that the alert is doing it is not the body of the alert email run schedule setup the schedule for how often this rule should run this can be setup to run at many different intervals from multiple times a day (useful for immediate alerts), to daily/weekly/monthly example multiple times a day (every 60 minutes for 10 hours) example weekly every friday enabled enable or disable the rule (this can also be achieved by using the "run until" option in the scheduling) test mode enabling this setting will force all alerts to go to the "copy emails to" address only it is recomended to use this when first setting up a rule to ensure it runs as antidipated copy emails to (optional) if you would like a copy of each alert email to be sent to an address, please enter it here this may result in a lot of emails email subject the subject of the email alert message email instroduction the intoduction that will be placed at the to of the the email body the rest of the email will be automatically generated see the format field format incomplete sessions this option should be used for generating emails for sessions where attendance is incomplete a list of the sessions for incomplete attedance, that fall within the data range paramaters below, will automatically appear here status tallly by course students this option will generate a digist of students attendance by course status tally by course session students this option will generate a digest of students attendance by session for the course attendance to query attendance from date the beginning point for which the items in this alert should be included attendance to date the end point for which the items in this alert should be included example emails format incomplete sessions attendance reminder please complete your attendance from this week if you have questions or don't know why you are receiving email, please email attendance\@customer edu 1 nov 23 7 nov 23 23/wi mech 105 23/wi introductory mechanical (mech 105) 23/wi introductory mechanical (mech 105) timetable 16 nov 23/wi fpr 453 23/wi forestry 543 (fpr 453 ) 23/wi introductory mechanical (fpr 453) timetable 16 nov (this copy has been sent to this address as configured for attendance notification schedule id # 1) status tally