The Updates tab is where you can inform your learners about any relevant updates or changes you want them to be aware of. Courses and Stories each have their own Updates tab.
In addition to the updates you write, Honor sends out a variety of automated updates to keep your students informed about what’s going on in the class. Students will be updated in all of these cases:
- You review a student’s assessment submission
- You leave commentary on a piece of learning material
- You add or change a due date to a Topic or Assessment
- A due date is approaching for a Topic or Assessment
- A new Topic, Assessment, or Story is added
- A student is enrolled in a new Course
- Other students are commenting in a location where a student left a reaction
- A piece of learning material is drawing one or more public comments from students
- Other students are responding to a Collective Prompt
- New and relevant Conversations activity
For these automated updates, when there are multiple updates of a single type in a day, students will only be notified once per update type. They’ll always be notified any time you send out an update yourself.
Push Notifications
When your students have push notifications enabled, Honor Learn will use their device’s notifications to inform them about updates in your courses. Students can enable and disable Honor Learn’s push notifications in their devices’ system settings.
Sending Updates
You can send Updates for both Courses and Stories that you’ve created.
To send an Update to the students in your course, navigate to the Updates tab. Click + New Update.
Write the text of your Update in the rich text editor. You can format the text and add hyperlinks. You can also attach related files by clicking Add Material. Click Send.
After you’ve sent out an Update, you can always go back and edit it, or delete it.
To send out Updates for a Story you’ve created, open up the Story and navigate to the Updates tab. Click + New Update to start a new Update. You can create, send, and edit updates here just like you can for courses.