Purpose
This article outlines the steps to add a Reengagement activity to your Moodle course.
The Reengagement activity provides a way for instructors to remind students to return to the course and complete activities that are past due.
It can also be used to selectively release timed content in a course. Refer to the following link for more information:
Procedure
With editing turned on, select +Add an activity or resource.
From the Activity chooser, select Reengagement.
Name the Reengagement and then complete the remaining settings for the activity.
Settings for Reengagement:
In the section, Reengagement details, in the Notify user dropdown, Choose either “On reengagement completion” or “After delay”
This will open the option checkbox, “suppress notification if target activity complete” button.
Click on the “suppress notification if target activity complete” and choose the Target activity for the reengagement.
Setting "Notify User" to "After Delay" and completing the "Notification delay" period will determine when the e-mail reminder will be sent based on the previous event (enrollment or activity completion).
Access Restrictions: The Email delay can be based on the user enrollment date or previous activity completion. To use the enrollment date, don't set up any access restrictions; each user's timer will start after they enroll in the course. To set the delay to be based on a previous activity completion, set that activity as an access restriction; each user's timer will start after they complete the dependencies.
Target Activity: This is the activity that you want to remind the user they must complete - if this activity is flagged as complete within the course then no e-mail reminder will be sent. NOTE: The "Target Activity" selection box does not appear until the "Suppress notification if target activity complete" box is checked (it is located under the 'Notification content (Third-party)' text box.
Timed Release: If you want to release a quiz within your course to individual users after a set period (eg 1 week after assignment completion) you use the "Activity completion" settings within the course.
Set the Reengagement duration to the time period you want (i.e. 1 week)
Complete access restrictions for the reengagement to allow access after the assignment is complete (or no access restrictions means start timer after enrollment)
Set access restrictions to the quiz so that it is available only after the re-engagement is complete
Email Placeholders: When configuring the e-mails sent from the plugin there are limited placeholders you can use. In order to use them properly, wrap them with "percentage" (%) symbols.