User Notifications

Valamis learning platform supports various types of user notifications, both through email and via portal notifications, visible on the separate page of the platform and accessed via the notification bell icon in the top-right corner. 

Email Notifications

Email notifications will be sent out to the email addresses of relevant users. The text in email notifications can be customized according to your needs.

To do so, as Administrator, go to Control Panel -> Configuration -> Instance settings -> Email notifications.

In the email text body, you can use the variables provided in the Definition of Terms, which will be changed according to the context. You can enable and disable each notification here, as well.

Portal Notifications

Portal notifications are immediately visible for each user. In the top-right corner of the environment, they will see an icon with the number of unread notifications. This icon can be toggled in Theme settings.

General Notifications

Courses

Users will get both email and portal notifications related to courses, when:

• They have been added/removed from a course,
• Their completed course is graded by the instructor,
• A user has requested to join their course.

Assignments

Users will get both email and portal notifications related to assignments, when:

• A user or a group submitted their assignment,
• A user or a group updated their submission,
• An instructor has evaluated the submission.

Training Events

Most training event notifications come to the user email.

Lessons

Email and portal notifications about lessons are sent when a new lesson available on the portal, or when a user gets a lesson grade.

Learning Paths

Learning path notifications are sent, when:

• a user is added to a learning path,
• a learning path deactivated,
• a user got new skills after completing learning path (portal only)

Certificates

Users get email and portal notifications about their certificates, when a certificate has been achieved, expires soon, or has expired.

E-commerce 

Besides a waitlist notification, there are also three other email notifications related to order confirmation:

• Order successfully paid
• Order successfully refunded
• Order failed

Link to order details is provided in a notification.

Both portal and email notifications are sent, when:

• User requested access to an item.
• User request has been approved or denied.
• User has cancelled their request.

Link to the Requests app is provided.