Modern Course Reminder — Overview

What it is

Modern Course Reminder (local_moderncoursereminder) is a Moodle local plugin that automates learner follow-up. Instead of teachers chasing learners by hand, you define rules that detect who has not started, not finished, gone inactive, or missed a deadline — and the plugin sends the right reminder, on the right channel, on cron.

On that foundation it escalates still-incomplete learners to their line manager, drafts branded templates (optionally with AI), batches manager digests, and reports on what actually moved completion — with filterable, exportable logs and a Report Builder datasource for audit.

{primary} Modern Course Reminder is a commercial plugin licensed under GNU GPL v3. It is the enterprise successor to the older free local_course_reminder, and includes a one-command migration that brings your existing reminder data across. See Installation.

Who it's for

  • Compliance & L&D teams running mandatory training who need deadlines, escalation, and an audit trail.
  • Course administrators & training providers who want to lift completion rates without manual chasing.
  • Teachers who want to manage reminders for their own course, with a guided setup that prevents broken rules.

How reminders work

Reminders run as a pipeline of scheduled tasks on Moodle cron:

  1. Evaluate — rules are checked against learners (completion, enrolment, last access, deadlines).
  2. Build queue — matched learners become per-recipient queue items, de-duplicated so nobody is spammed.
  3. Send — items go out by email and/or Moodle notification, within each rule's daily send window.
  4. Retry / digest / clean up — failures retry, manager digests are batched, old logs are pruned.

Completion, inactivity, and deadline state are read from Moodle's own Completion, Enrolment, and Messaging APIs — there is no external service to host.

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