Pop-quiz! Answer the following:
Are you trying to keep up with student reports so that you can message at risk or failing students and encourage them to attend office hours or seek tutoring?
Are you watching your participants list to find and reach out to students who have not logged into the course or participated recently?
Are you trying to make sure students with an excelling grade have additional opportunities to further challenge them?
Are you wanting to find a way to get back a few hours of your life each week and let the PLD do some work to help you?

Many of the essential steps in helping your students succeed take a lot of TIME! The Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) will help you by completing these tasks for you, thus giving you back this time to focus on your teaching!
Give some of these rules from our PLD Cheat sheet a go:
A student has not logged into the course in the previous x days. | Event: Recurring Event (daily) Conditions: User role check (student) & Course login (has NOT logged into course, x) Actions: Send email |
Quiz or assignment not submitted (*note this rule uses course completion settings) | Event: Quiz or assignment submitted Conditions: Activity completed Actions: Send email |
Students with 69% and below after midterm EMAIL | Event: Specific date and time Conditions: Course grade range Actions: Send email |
Send students to the syllabus when the FIRST enter the course | Event: Course start date Conditions: Course login (NOT logged in / 30 days) Actions: Go to activity |
Want to learn more or see it in action? Come to our PLD Workshop on 10/29 at 11am.
Upon completion of this workshop, you’ll be able to:
- Design automated interactions with students and personalize their learning.
- Create rules using the Personalized Learning Designer to assist with course management strategies.
Do you have PLD rules that you found helpful? Tell us about them in the comments!
Keep an eye on the CTL Calendar for upcoming workshops. The next one will be 10/29 @11am on the PLD. If you can not make the live workshop – it will be recorded AND/OR I have an online version of the PLD workshop in Moodle for you!