Awarding Badges as a Surprising Notification

Awarding Badges as a Surprising Notification

by Stefan Scholz -
Number of replies: 3
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Hi Kushan,

I like the idea of a „surprising notification“ - something that stands out to inform students about very important events.

And I do know one plugin that does it: level up - whenever you reach a new level, a modal is shown automatically.

Usually, you would use a label which is hidden until the restrictions are met, maybe with a background colour, and/or a nice image included. But that only shows up on the course page and is certainly not what you have in your mind.

Our plugin pulse (which is based upon a label originally) does allow you to send out a notification to the student when it becomes available. We use it for scenarios like drip fed content or congratulation messages or reminders. You can download it here:
https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_pulse or test it on our test site labs.bdecent.de

We’ll discuss internally if we can add a modal like level up does and let you know here.

Hope this helps!
Stefan
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Re: Awarding Badges as a Surprising Notification

by Carolina Blackman -

Hi Stefan

What type of notifications a studen can get by using Pulse?, E-mails?, I'm checking and you have reminders options but I don't understand how students get that reminders.

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Re: Awarding Badges as a Surprising Notification

by Stefan Scholz -
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Hi Carolina,

Pulse uses Moodle's notification system. That means that it will use the configured message channel, which by default is email, but could also be web notification, mobile notification or others that you have installed on your site.

The most common causes of issues are:

  • Course has not yet started (pulse only sends notifications for courses that have a start date in the past)
  • When using email notifications: email not setup properly
  • Users have disabled messaging
  • The pulse activity is hidden (it only sends notifications when it's available; stealth mode is ok)

Feel free to contact us via https://chat.bdecent.de or schedule an online session with us using https://bdecent.de/schedule and we'll figure it out together!

Hope this helps!
Stefan

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Re: Awarding Badges as a Surprising Notification

by Carolina Blackman -
Hi Stefan, ella the information you send me here and in chat was very helpful. The plugin is working fine now!

I just changed the max execution time and memory limit.