Mobile app notifications

For users and instructors

The LMS mobile app lets you keep up to date with all that’s happening in your courses and on the site. Every time you open the app, events are synchronized with the main website.

You will receive LMS calendar event notifications automatically. If you don’t want to get them, you can turn them all off individually (or globally) in the Calendar events options in the main menu.

You will also receive notifications of messages, forum posts, submitted assignments etc (known as ‘push notifications’) if your site administrator has enabled these. To receive these notifications you need to enable them for your mobile on the app via Settings -> Notifications or on the main site, from the user menu top right >Preferences>Messaging.

For administrators

Push notifications can be enabled by an administrator by connecting their LMS site to a messaging server. An access key can be obtained via Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Message outputs > Mobile Notifications.

You can enable by default Mobile notifications for your users, please read the “Default message outputs” section in Messaging settings.

Users then need to connect at least once with the latest version of the LMS Mobile app in order to register their phones with the LMS site.

Event Reminders plugin

Push notifications can also include calendar event notifications.

The Event Reminders plugin will automatically send reminders for LMS calendar events in a timely manner via LMS message interface. It also allows users to control how they receive messages for each type of event in the LMS calendar.