Selecting Message Recipients and Creating Conditional Text
Rules and Rule Sets
To select message recipients and/or create conditional text, you will need to set logic to determine who will receive the message and what that message will say. You can add multiple rules within a rule set (e.g., if you want to consider more than one variable), and you can add multiple rule sets within the recipient selection and conditional text set-up screens. Please note: you can have 8 rules total.
Please note: Rules are processed in order.
Selecting Message Recipients
In some situation, you will want a set of students to receive a message with set text. In that case, start by clicking the arrow on the “Select recipients” drop down.
Then click “Add a new set of rules”, as in the screenshot above. This will reveal the Rule Set drop downs. Here, you’ll decide, based on performance on an assignment (which you choose from the list in the “variable” dropdown menu, and a numeric value you add into the “value” field) who is included in or excluded from the set of students receiving the message.
You can set up several rules and rule sets (8 total).
*Please note that, if you want to be sure that only students with grades in a specific range on an assignment receive certain text, you will need to set up a range. To do so, you will need to create one rule with an upper bound (“less than” or “less than or equal to”) and a lower bound (“greater than” or “greater than or equal to”).
Conditional Text
If you want students to see differentiated text based on a variety of factors, you can set up conditional text by placing your cursor where you will want the conditional text to go, and clicking “insert conditional text” at the bottom of the message field. This will open a box on the right side of your screen where you can create your rule(s) and write your text.
In this example, the instructor wants to remind students who haven’t yet turned in Assignment 1 that it’s due the next day.
Clicking “Save & Insert” adds a placeholder to your text.
If you need to edit the conditional text, simply click the placeholder.
You can also preview the message by scrolling to the preview area and clicking students' names to show the message as they will see it.