Send Announcement By Email Before Course Start Date
Currently the conditions for an announcement to be sent by email notification to students are:
- the student's notification settings for 'Announcement' needs to be enabled (the default is 'Notify me right away')
- the course needs to be published
- the term start date and course/section start date needs to have passed
This idea is to either do away with the last condition or for more fine-tuned control add an announcement setting that you can check like "send announcement via notification before course start date". The use case for this is that faculty might want to send a welcome or reminder before the first day, or at an institution like ours the students might need to do some reading/watching to be prepared for the official first day of the course.
The faculty could currently get around this by adjusting the course start date, but that may not be allowed at their institution. They could also send a message to students, but then of course the content doesn't persist within the course.
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