Not yet. I plan to use capability for that (given to course teachers by default) and integration with standard messaging subsystem (so that you can choose email, Jabber, pop-up etc). That will trigger an event, too. So the eventual integration with an external system should be easy.
Please, report it as workshop bug in the tracker.
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