Scheduled/Automatic SMS or text messaging

Scheduled/Automatic SMS or text messaging

by Erin Murdoch -
Number of replies: 2

Hi there,

I have looked into the possibility of sending SMS from the Moodle platform, and while it seems possible to use something like Clickatell and Ozeki, all of this looks to be a manual process.

We need to nudge students when they haven't logged on in a while, when they are falling behind or activity is low, etc. Unfortunately emails alone, get lost amongst all the other emails one receives.

- We are using Moodle 3.3.

- SMS's need to be automated as far as possible (triggered similarly to automated emails)


Really hope there is something we can use!

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Re: Scheduled/Automatic SMS or text messaging

by Justin Hunt -
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Erin

Perhaps it helps, but I have developed a plugin that helps to integrate remote systems with Moodle events. Its a bit confusing at first, but it really just gets Moodle event data up to "https://zapier.com" where that data can then be sent off to another webservice like Salesforce or Aweber.

Anyway you could automate SMS messages from Twilio or another SMS provider in this way. 

It might be more complicated than you would like, but if you want to know more about the plugin. It is called "Trigger" and there is a demo course using it on the Moodle Japan Innovations Showcase site. 
https://showcase.moodlejapan.org/inno/course/view.php?id=10

You can get it and simple instructions from here:

https://github.com/justinhunt/moodle-local_trigger


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Re: Scheduled/Automatic SMS or text messaging

by Dan Marsden -
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have you seen the Reengagement activity?

https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_reengagement

We've just added code to the version in github that now uses the Moodle notification API instead of just sending e-mails around - you could install a messaging provider that sends sms messages:

https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=type:message

then configure the student notifications to send SMS messages for certain messages like those from the reengagment activity.

let us know how you go!

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