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Modern Course Reminder

Maintained by Adebare Showemimo
Automated, rule-based course-completion reminders for Moodle that lift completion by re-engaging inactive and overdue learners — with manager escalation, branded templates and audit-ready logs.
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Supports Moodle 4.5-5.2 See all versions
Reviewed annually for quality
Latest release: 3 months ago
Installations: 1
Downloads (last 90 days): 2
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Modern Course Reminder

Modern Course Reminder turns learner follow-up into an automated engine. Instead of teachers chasing learners by hand, rules detect who has not started, not finished, gone inactive or missed a deadline — and send the right reminder on the right channel, on cron.

On that foundation it escalates still-incomplete learners to their line manager, drafts branded templates (optionally with AI), batches manager digests, and reports on what actually moved completion — with filterable, exportable logs and a Report Builder datasource for audit.

Supports Moodle 4.5–5.2.

Moodle 4.5–5.2 GPLv3 Stable

13 reasons to choose Modern Course Reminder

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Reminders on autopilot

Guided setup, no broken rules

Rescue inactive learners

Escalate to managers

Branded, AI-drafted templates

Every channel, batched digests

Send a reminder now

Scheduling & campaigns

Runs entirely on cron

Prove it lifts completion

Audit-ready by design

Safe, respectful sending

Moodle-native, future-proof

ALL FEATURES

Everything needed to automate reminders safely.

The feature set covers rules, guided setup, campaigns, escalation, templates, delivery channels, operations, analytics, privacy, and trust.

⚙️ Rules & triggers

✓Triggers for not-started, course-incomplete, inactivity and deadline approaching/overdue

✓Scope a rule to a single course, a whole category, a cohort, or site-wide

✓Target overall course completion or specific completion-tracked activities (multi-select)

✓Preview the exact learners a rule matches before it sends

✓Ready-made starter rules: not started, incomplete, inactive, deadline, overdue-with-escalation

🧩 Course-level management & guided setup

✓Teachers manage reminder rules from inside their own course

✓A setup checklist guides completion tracking, criteria and activity completion

✓Rules that target completion are blocked until the course is correctly configured

📣 Sending & campaigns

✓One-off manual send to a course with audience filters and a recipient preview

✓Eligible and skipped recipients shown with reasons before anything sends

✓One-off and recurring scheduled campaigns (daily / weekly / monthly)

✓Repeat cadence with a maximum-reminders cap

✓Campaign start/stop dates and a daily send window control exactly when sends go out

👤 Manager escalation

✓Resolve a learner's line manager three ways: Moodle manager role, custom profile field, or a manual mapping table

✓Bulk-import learner→manager mappings from CSV

✓Escalate on days overdue, number of reminders received, or a fixed compliance date

✓Dedicated manager-escalation templates and report

📝 Templates & content

✓Reusable templates for learner, manager and digest audiences

✓~25 placeholders (name, course, due date, days overdue, manager, dashboard URL and more)

✓Brand colours and an email-safe logo that resolves to an absolute URL

✓Sandboxed preview with sample data before anything sends

✓Optional AI drafting via Moodle's own AI subsystem — no API keys stored in the plugin

📨 Channels & delivery

✓Email and Moodle notification, selectable per rule and gated by site-wide switches

✓Batched manager/admin digests — daily, weekly or monthly

✓Per-run throttle, configurable retries and retry delay

🔁 Automation & operations

✓Seven scheduled tasks: evaluate → build queue → send → retry → digests → cleanup → refresh

✓De-duplication so a learner is never spammed

✓Queue viewer to cancel or requeue individual items

📊 Analytics & reporting

✓Dashboard cards: active rules, sent today/this week, pending queue, failed, overdue learners, escalations

✓Effectiveness analytics: learners reminded, completed-after-reminder, average days to complete, repeats

✓Delivery, overdue, inactive, rule-performance and manager-escalation reports

✓Filterable, exportable audit logs

✓Report Builder datasource for the reminder delivery log

🛡️ Safety & trust

✓Learner opt-out and automatic skipping of suspended / no-email / exempt users

✓Built-in health check for cron, email, queue, tasks, manager mapping, templates and AI

✓Capability-based access for admins and teachers

 

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