[LON-CAPA-users] Critical message

[Stuart Raeburn]

HK,

>
> A couple of questions about critical message. Do students who enroll after
> the message was sent get the message?
>

1. No, students who are added to a course after a critical message has  
been sent do not automatically receive any critical messages sent  
prior to enrollment by course personnel to existing students.

The Course Coordinator will need to resend the message to any new  
students added to the course in the time since the message was  
originally sent.

There is an open enhancement request: "store critical messages to send  
to late adds", see: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3453

2. With "send copy to permanent e-mail address" unchecked the  
recipient could still receive an e-mail notification (including an  
excerpt of the LON-CAPA message) if the user's preferences had "E-mail  
notification of LON-CAPA messages" set to either "All" or "Critical  
only".

If automated enrollment is in use, then e-mail notification is set to  
"All" when a new LON-CAPA user account is created, if a student being  
added by auto-enrollment does not already have a user account (and the  
data available during auto-enrollment includes an e-mail addresses for  
the student).

Because e-mail notification is a user preference, a student could  
delete or modify that setting later on, so it can't be relied on,  
whereas the permanent e-mail address can be relied upon, (because the  
user does not have rights to change it).


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:

> Good morning,
>
> A couple of questions about critical message. Do students who enroll after
> the message was sent get the message? (If not, is there a way to make sure
> they get it apart for having to resend it.) I presume that if the "send
> copy to permanent e-mail address" is not checked, then the message only
> shows up when the student logs in (i.e., the message is not via email.)
>
> Thanks,
> -hk