The Personalised Learning Designer allows academics to create basic personalised automation in their course such as displaying a popup message or sending an email. This is most commonly used for writing personalised welcome messages or emails that include the student's name.
What is the Personalised Learning Designer (PLD)?
The Personalised Learning Designer is a page on each course where academics can build 'Rules' that automatically run in the course.
Rules are made up of a combination of 3 main parts which tell Moodle what to do:
- Event: When does the rule happen? (When someone enters a course? At a date?)
- Conditions: Who does the rule affect and when? (Students only? Within a date range?)
- Actions: What does the rule do? (Send an email? Show a popup?)
Academics can use name "tokens" to include the student's name in messages they write.
Getting Started
The Personalised Learning designer can affect many students and should be used with care. Some important considerations when using the Personalised Learning Designer are:
- What is the goal and is it important enough to send a PLD message? Too many rules can be distracting.
- How should messages be worded? Some wording can result in confusion when sent as a popup.
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Adding Rules to PLD
Academics can add rules to the Personalised Learning Designer page in their course to create automation. Rules are made up of building blocks known as Events, Conditions, and Actions.
Whilst multiple events, conditions, and actions are possible, we encourage users to only use one event per rule to keep rules easy to manage. Multiple conditions and actions are fine.
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Templates
It is recommended to get started with using or modifying one of our basic templates for building Personalised Learning Designer rules as they cover the main scenarios.
Course Introduction
You may want to add a course introduction for students who first join your course. When your students first access the course, they will be redirected to view the course outline and optionally a welcome email or popup can be sent.
The following guide is an example approach for adding a course introduction rule.
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Basic Scheduled Email
You may want students to receive an email at a specified time in your course. PLD can be used to send out a generic reminder or critical information to students via email.
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FAQ
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