Hi

Many customers want to automate the sending of a welcome message to users enrolled in a course.
Now it can be done with dynamic rules, but its needed to create a rule that has all courses, and this rule will check all users, so it is a slow rule that can hurt system performance, especially in large installations.

It would be nice to have a functionality that allows the administrator to enable a default welcome text for all the courses, and a specific text for each course, and that the courses have the option to enable / disable this message.

The message would only be sent once using the course's first access event.

Something like:

   IF first-login-course

       IF course-has-enabled-default-welcome-message

           IF course-has-welcome-text THEN send-welcome-text

           ELSEIF default-course-configuration-has-welcome text THEN send-welcome-text

This is faster and lighter than checking many courses.

Possible questions:

• is it a WP or LMS feature, only dynamic rules ar WP specific?
• messages should be editable on site level as default text with placeholders and editor text field
• it should be possible to individualize the text on course level
• when is the welcome text send to the students?
  • enrolment when a course is created in a course category (categrory enrolment)
  • enrolment by cohort is often set before course start date