The Notification addon tells people when something happens on your site: a student enrols, an instructor is approved, a quiz is marked, a meeting is about to start. Each event can be sent two ways, as a browser push notification or as an on-site notification inside Academy.
Note: Notifications is a Pro addon. Browser push also needs HTTPS and four PHP extensions, listed below.
Before you start
On-site notifications work without the extensions. Only browser push depends on them.
Step 1: Turn on the addon
Go to Academy LMS → Add-ons and search for Notification. Switch the toggle on.
Step 2: Choose what gets sent
Go to Academy LMS → Settings → Advanced → Notification. Every event is a row with two switches, Push and Onsite, so you can send an event one way, both ways, or neither.
The events are grouped by who they concern:
|
Group |
Events |
|
Instructors |
New instructor registration, Instructor approved, Instructor removed |
|
Enrolment |
Course enrollment, Cancel enrollment |
|
Announcements |
Announcement publish |
|
Students |
Student Registration |
|
Courses |
Course Publish, Course Complete, Course Review |
|
Quizzes |
Quiz Evaluate, Quiz Submit |
|
Assignments |
Assignment Evaluate, Assignment Submit |
|
Questions and answers |
Question Answer Submit, Question Answer Reply |
|
Withdrawals |
Instructor Withdraw Request Approved, Instructor Withdraw Request Rejected |
|
Meetings and bookings |
Booking Confirmed, Meeting Reminder (starting soon), Meeting Started |
Most events are on for both channels out of the box. Question Answer Submit, Question Answer Reply and Instructor Withdraw Request Rejected start switched off, so turn those on if you want them.
Click Save when you are done.
Meeting reminders
Meeting reminder lead time (minutes) sets how long before a meeting or booking the “starting soon” reminder goes out. The default is 15.
Three things are worth knowing about these:
Troubleshooting
Push notifications never arrive but on-site ones do. Either the site is not on HTTPS, or one of curl, gmp, mbstring or openssl is missing from PHP. Ask your host to enable whichever is absent.
A reminder arrived late. The background check runs every five minutes, so a reminder can be a few minutes behind the lead time you set. This is expected.
Meeting emails stopped after I turned the addon off. Meeting and booking reminders run through this addon, so switching it off silences the emails as well. Turn it back on to restore them.
An event is not notifying anyone. Check both switches on that row. A row with Push and Onsite both off sends nothing.