Pulse/Features

This document provides an overview about the features of Pulse and Pulse Pro.

General

Name	Description
Title
Content

Notifications

The following notifications can be used:

Invitation

Name	Description
Send notification	Enable/disable the notification; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content	By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Re-send notification	Manually trigger sending the notification (again).
Notification subject	The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content	The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients	Choose which roles shall receive the notification

First Reminder ^PRO

Name	Description
Enable first reminder	Enable/disable the notifcation; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content	By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Notification subject	The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content	The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients	Choose which roles shall receive the notification
Notification schedule	Choose if the reminderr shall be sent at a fixed date (e.g. Oct 11th, 10:00am) or at a relative date (e.g. 2 days after becoming available)

Second Reminder ^PRO

Name	Description
Enable second reminder	Enable/disable the notifcation; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content	By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Notification subject	The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content	The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients	Choose which roles shall receive the notification
Notification schedule	Choose if the reminderr shall be sent at a fixed date (e.g. Oct 11th, 10:00am) or at a relative date (e.g. 2 days after becoming available)

Recurring Reminder ^PRO

Name	Description
Enable first reminder	Enable/disable the notifcation; Pulse will send the notification only if it is available to the student (visible or stealth), it will not send a notification if it's hidden/not available based on activity restrictions.
Use notification content instead of general content	By default, Pulse will use the title of the Pulse activity as subject and the general content as message. Enable this setting to use the notification subject & notification content instead.
Notification subject	The subject of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification content	The content of the notification if "Use notification content instead of general content" is enabled; supports placeholders
Notification recipients	Choose which roles shall receive the notification
Notification schedule	Choose the interval, e.g. 1 week or 4 days

Completion criteria

The following completion criteria can be used:

Name	Description
Available on completion	Pulse will be complete as soon as it is available (i.e. not hidden or unavailable due to availability restrictions)
Self mark completion	Students can self mark complete — the difference to "manual" completion is that students can't revoke it and that a green badge indicates the time when they marked themselves complete
Require approval by role	Require a specific role (choose from any course context and user context role) to mark the student as complete

Actions ^PRO

The following actions can be used:

Name	Description
Credit Score	Add or remove credits to/from a custom user profile field. (best in combination with our enrolment plugin "Course Credit Enrolment")

Reactions ^PRO

The following reactions can be used:

Name		Description
Type	No Reaction
	Rate	Let students rate the course (like/dislike) directly in their e-Mail client (no login required); use the placeholder {reaction} to place it in the notification
	Mark complete	Let students mark complete something directly in their e-Mail client (no login required); use the placeholder {reaction} to place it in the notification
	Approve	Let teachers/parents/line managers approve something directly in their e-Mail client (no login required); use the placeholder {reaction} to place it in the notification
Location	Notification only	Show the reaction in the notification
	Notification and Content	Show the reaction in the notification and on the course page
	Content only	Show the reaction on the course page

Appearance ^PRO

The following options for the design of the Pulse activity on the course page are available:

Name	Description
CSS class	Add a specific css class to the pulse activity; can be used to style it in a bespoke way
Display mode	Choose if the activity shall be displayed "normal" (i.e. only the content added in the general content area) or if it shall be wrapped into a bootstrap alert
Box type	If box mode is used, you can choose from the following presets: Primary Secondary Danger Warning Light Dark Success
Box icon	If box mode is used, you can choose an icon which will be added at the left side of the box (font-awesome)

Presets

In order to simplify using Pulse, we have implemented presets that allow teachers to use pre-defined configurations of Pulse easily. The following presets are built in:

Award credits ^PRO

With Pulse Pro, the site administrator can create and customize presets easily according to the specific requirements of their organisation.