[Building Sakai] alerts not sent on Topic or Forum creation

[Noah Botimer]

This may be a workaround or just good practice (I won't judge which), but I'd suggest posting an invitation message in the new topic. I suspect that a message with a specific call to action for the topic will drive learner engagement better than an automated "topic is open" message. I've found students sometimes reluctant to speak first and set the tone for a new conversation.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Fatima Rahiman wrote:

> Thanks Jim…but surely at the very least an alert on  Topic creation should be sent to site members ??? How else do we ensure student  engagement  then if they’re not alerted that  a new Topic has been posted?  
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> From: Jim Mezzanotte [mailto:jmezzanotte at anisakai.com] 
> Sent: 21 November 2013 04:33 PM
> To: Fatima Rahiman
> Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org; James Smurthwaite; Antoinette Malgas; Sakai Developers (sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org); David Wafula Wanyonyi
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] alerts not sent on Topic or Forum creation
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> Hi Fatima,
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> My understanding is, that's by design--Forums watch notification is only for messages posted.
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> Jim Mezzanotte
> Asahi Net International
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> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Fatima Rahiman <Fatima.Rahiman at wits.ac.za> wrote:
> H  There
> We’ve noticed in our courses that  when Forums or Topics are created no alerts are sent to  members of the site despite enabling all the requisite settings e.g. WATCH conversation etc . They only seem to receive an alert when a conversation is started. Is this the way the Forum tool works or have we set something incorrectly?
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