Manage Course Highlight Emails#
If your Open edX system adminstrator has configured your instance of the Open edX platform to send course highlight emails, you can send automatic email messages to learners in your course that contain three to five “highlights” of upcoming course content. A highlight is a brief description of an important concept, idea, or activity in the section. Your Open edX system administrator provides the template for this course highlight email, and you enter the highlights for the email in Studio.
For more information, contact your Open edX system administrator.
Note
The highlights that you specify persist when you re-run your course.
Send Highlight Emails#
To send highlight emails to your learners, you must first set highlights for each section. When you have set section highlights, you then enable the Course Highlight Emails setting.
The number of highlights that you have set for a section is visible in the course outline, below the name of the section.
Set Course Section Highlights#
Note
If your Open edX system adminstrator has not configured your instance of the Open edX platform to send course highlight messages, learners do not receive messages even if you enable highlights and enter highlights for each section.
To set highlights for a course section, follow these steps.
On the Course Outline page, locate the section you want, and then select Section Highlights under the section name.
In the Highlights for <section name> dialog box, enter three to five highlights for the section. Enter one highlight in each field. Each highlight can include up to 250 characters.
Select Save.
Enable Highlight Emails#
Note
If you do not enable highlights, the Open edX platform does not send course highlight emails, even if you enter highlights for one or more sections.
You cannot disable highlight emails after you enable them. If you do not want to send highlight emails after you enable them, you can delete highlights in all sections.
See also
Juniper release notes: Educator Experiences (reference)
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