If anyone from the edX team is reading this, I would like to know if there has been any recent improvements to the email notifications feature of the discussion forum, to optionally send email notifications when a new post is submitted to the forum, and not just to the discussion threads that you're already subscribed to.
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 5:04:02 PM UTC-7, Chris Dodge wrote: > > Hi Nate, > > Very good timing with your question. Yes, in fact, we actually shipped our > Notifications MVP release to a customer last week in fact, so it is stable > for production, but it's "design center" is for small-to-medium sized Open > edX instances. We're finishing up Phase 2 of the project which are > daily/weekly digest emails of Notifications, which will be released to our > customer in May. > > While the "engine" is fully developed on edx/edx-notifications (the > digests work is on a branch: cdodge/notification-digest), the integration > into the LMS/Studio is in our team's fork: edx-solutions/edx-platform. The > Integration work primarily is around implementing Notification Triggers > (e.g. "when User A responds to a forum post of User B, send user B a > notification", "when course author posts a new Course Update, send a > notification to all enrolled students", etc.). If you are interested, I can > send you the (closed) main PR regarding that integration work in > edx-solutions/edx-platform. > > Phase 3 will be to migrate the integration into Open edX. I'd like to see > it make it into the "C release" of Open edX, but a number of teams here > would have to be involved to get there, so I can't really commit to that > right now. > > Right now we support "durable in-browser" notifications, plus the > notification digests. We been asked by others in the Open edX community to > implement a "fire-and-forget" Email Notification Channel (using the > parlance of the architecture in edx-notifications) which I don't think > would take longer than a week or two to implement (mainly since we are > already building email digests). I'll let you know if we are able to take > it on in the near future. > > So, I guess my answers are a bit complicated and all depends on your > timing. You could: > > - take edx/edx-notifications now (well, I'd suggest you wait for digests > to land first on master in maybe 2 weeks) and apply the relevant diffs in > our LMS/Studio fork to your fork (you might even try cherry-picking our > integration commit hash and seeing how much you need to resolve). You'll > also have to come up with some suitable .css styling as the styles we > originally developed is specific to our customers visual skinning. > > - wait for an official release in a Open edX named release > > If you take the former route, I think one gotcha that you should be aware > of might be when trying to rebase against - say - a future "C Release" and > having to resolve any conflicts. > > Regarding technical documentation, I have that in my current sprint > workload, so you should expect to see some technical (not end-user) > documentation over the next few days on the edx/edx-notifications Wiki. > > Hope that answers some of your questions. Happy to talk more about this if > you want. > > Best wishes, > > Chris > > On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 4:21:55 PM UTC-4, Nate Aune wrote: >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> Our team here is heads down working on a Notification system for Open >>> edX, and from the sounds of your requirements, you might be able to build >>> on top of it to provide this functionality. Sorry, I don't really have a >>> public doc on the feature ready, but I'll work to transfer over some of the >>> design documents over to a public Wiki page when I get a breather from >>> coding. >>> >> >> Thanks for your reply and apologies for the delay in responding. Did you >> get a chance to transfer over the design documents to a public wiki page? >> I'd love to take a closer look at the notifications systems and see if it >> will work for our customers (yes, now there are two who both need it). >> >> >>> The trick for you will be regarding timing, as this will be a long >>> effort and our initial MVP will be focusing on in-browser notifications >>> first, then triggered emails. Other channels will be developed after that. >>> >> >> Are there now email notifications or still only in-browser notifications? >> In your estimation, how much work would it be to add email notifications? >> >> >>> When do you need to deliver this functionality to your customer? >>> >> >> It's becoming more urgent now as both customers are launching courses and >> concerned that people will be posting to the forums, but they won't receive >> emails to know that someone has posted. >> >> >>> If you want to follow-along in the development, see the >>> edx/edx-notifications repo. The repo is only about 1 week old and there is >>> a lot of code churn happening right now, so I would not suggest >>> using/building on top of this now. You can also follow work progress at the >>> "Solutions" project in the public JIRA. >>> >> >> I found this page in JIRA which outlines edx-solutions contributions to >> push back upstream, but I didn't see notifications mentioned in this list. >> >> https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SOL/Solutions+to+Open+edX+Contribute+back >> >> I can see in Github that there's been work done on the codebase, but >> where can I find more info about the features notifications and >> implementation details in the wiki? >> >> Again, it's early going. I'd estimate that it will be another month >>> before there is enough for you to really dig into. >>> >> >> Do you think at this point it's stable enough to use in production? >> >> thanks, >> Nate >> >> >>> >>> On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 4:59:43 PM UTC-5, Nate Aune wrote: >>>> >>>> We have a customer who would like to get an email every time a new >>>> discussion is posted to the forum. In other words, they need a way to >>>> assign a moderator or group of moderators that automatically get email >>>> updates when there are any new posts to a discussion board. >>>> >>>> From the edX documentation ( >>>> http://edx.readthedocs.org/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/running_course/discussions_students.html#keep-up-with-new-activity), >>>> >>>> it would appear that you can only follow a post and receive an email >>>> digest >>>> of the posts you're following, not get an email of all posts to a board. >>>> >>>> This customer does not want to check the discussion board daily/hourly. >>>> They assigned a particular user as a moderator and thought that the >>>> moderator would receive email updates when new posts were added to the >>>> discussion board, but this doesn't seem to be the case. >>>> >>>> Has anyone configured edX to send an email on every post to the >>>> discussion board? I realize that this would result in a barrage of emails, >>>> if you were running a 100,000 student MOOC course, but these courses have >>>> much smaller number of students participating, so they won't have that >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> Nate >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/b0ea65c7-3502-4562-a704-8a0ead368c82%40googlegroups.com.
