Seminar notification settings
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • 2 minutes to read

Seminar notification settings


Article Summary

When adding a seminar notification to an activity you can configure the following settings.

SettingDescriptionNotes

Scheduling

Choose whether the message should be sent immediately (Send now) or scheduled to Send later. If you select Send later you can set the message to send several hours from one of the following options:

  • Before event (opening session start time)
  • After event (closing session end time)
  • Before end of Sign-up period (cut-off point)

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Recipients

Choose who will receive the notification message based on their registration status:

  • Booked: Send the notification to all users who were booked for the session. You can further specify that the message should go to those who Attended only or only those who did not attend with the status No Shows.
  • Wait-listed: Will send a notification to those who are signed up for an event that allows overbooking, but are not yet booked.
  • User cancelled: Will send a notification to users for whom the event was cancelled or users who cancelled their registration for a session.
  • Pending requests: Will send a notification to users who have requested a booking from their manager/role/admin that has not been approved or declined yet.

Please note, when selecting All booked, notifications will be issued to all booked users, regardless of their attendance status, for events past and present.

Two permissions are important for adding recipients:

  • mod/facetoface:addrecipients: Allows the assigned role to add any recipients to the seminar's message
  • mod/facetoface:removerecipients: Allows the assigned role to remove any recipients from the seminar's message

Template

Select which (if any) notification template to use as a basis for your new message. After selecting a Template, the message content will appear in the Body field.

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Title

Enter a name or subject for your message. This should allow you to distinguish this notification from all others and will be used as the subject line of the notification email.

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Body

This is the body of the notification to be sent. Within the body of the notification several placeholders can be used, where the placeholders will be replaced with the appropriate values when the message is sent.

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Manager copy

Use this checkbox to send a copy of the notification message to the Learner's manager.

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Manager copy prefix

Add an additional message that will appear as a prefix or preamble in the manager's copy of the notification is required.

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Status

Indicates if the notification should be Active (visible and able to be used) or Inactive (not visible and unable to be used).

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C005 - Seminar Management(1)The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using Seminar Management in Totara Learn. Here you can learn more about how to use seminars, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.


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