Pulse

About Pulse

Description

Pulse is a moodle activity and helps teachers to implement better workflows in their courses. It can be added like any other activity.

Architecture

Being a moodle activity, we can leverage the power of Moodle's availability conditions to trigger Pulse. Pulse is "activated" by being available. If you e.g. want to send a course welcome message, you simply add the activity without any restrictions to your course and use the invitation feature to send a notification to all students once they are enrolled. In addition to the activity (mod_pulse), there's a pro version available (local_pulsepro) which adds more features.

Use cases

We like to think of Pulse as a tool which teachers can use for various things. Here are a few typical use cases:

List of typical Pulse use cases

Name	Description	Used features	Tier
Course welcome message	Notify students when they are enrolled into a course	Invitation	Free
Group welcome message	Notifiy students upon entering a group	Intivitation Restriction by group	Free
Reminder for upcoming activity	Remind students about an activity that they have not yet completed	Invitation Restriction by activity completion or Restriction by date	Free
Congratulations message	Notify students that have completed the course	Invitation Restriction by activity completion or Restriction by course completion	Free
Time to learn	Reminder students daily/weekly to re-engage them	Recurring reminder Restriction by course completion	Pro
Drip fed content notifications	Notify students about new content	Invitation Restriction by date	Free
Multi-lingual content with choices	Allow students to complete the content in any language (e.g. if you have several scorm packages)	Restriction by activity completion Completion criteria: when available	Free
Section completion	Simplify course completion reports	Restriction by activity completion Completion criteria: when available	Free
Consent	Require your students to give their consent before they can proceed with the course	Restriction by activity completion Completion criteria: self mark complete	Free
Teacher approval	Add a teacher approval step to your courses, and notify teachers about it at the right time.	Completion criteria: approval required by role	Free
Line manager approval	Add a line manager approval step to your courses, and notify line managers about it at the right time.	Completion criteria: approval required by role Reaction: approval required	Pro
Parent approval	Add a parent approval step to your courses, and notify parents about it at the right time.	Completion criteria: approval required by role Reaction: approval required	Pro
Non-editing teacher approval	Add a non-editing teacher approval step to your courses, and notify non-editing teachers about it at the right time.	Completion criteria: approval required by role Reaction: approval required	Pro
Award credits	Add/remove credits to the student's account	Action: credit score	Pro
Feedback	Collect feedback from your students directly in an email	Reaction: rate	Pro

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