Learning News
Keep Your Learners in the Loop with Course and Business Updates
New course? Live event? Let your learners know by adding events and news right to their dashboard feed.
Promote Courses
Publish Events
Post Reminders
Creator
Vextur
Features and benefits
Keep everyone in the loop
Share training and system news, upcoming events, and mass announcements right where your learners are. Your audience sees what matters most the moment they log in to their dashboard.
Publish in minutes
Add the plugin and start publishing updates and news without coding or technical help. Write a headline, summary, and full story, attach an image, and your post is live.
Reach the right people
A specific cohort, individual users, site administrators, anyone with a certain role, or your entire user base. Segment your audience so every post reaches exactly who it’s meant for.
Send direct emails
Make sure your learners never miss the news or updates. Flip a switch to send any news post by email when it’s published.
Stay organized
View, edit, and delete posts from one place, and archive older news without losing it. Keep your announcements current and your archive tidy.
Promote courses and send reminders
Spotlight upcoming courses and events, and nudge learners with reminders that keep training top of mind and participation high.
How the Learning News plugin works
1
Add the plugin to your dashboard
Go to your dashboard, turn on edit mode, and click Add a block. Select Learning News from the list. Drag and drop the new block to customize your dashboard.
2
Create your news post
Click Add news and fill in the editor fields: a headline, a short summary, and the full contents. Add an image, set the publish date, and choose whether the summary shows on the news page.
3
Set where and how the news appears
Drag and drop the plugin block to set where your news and updates will be shown. Turn on the email option if you want the post sent out by email when it’s published.
4
Choose your audience
In the Audience section, configure who can see the post: a specific cohort, individual users, site administrators, an assigned role, or all users. Add multiple rules to match your access requirements, then check the Access list to confirm who qualifies.
5
Manage your news over time
Open Learning News from the menu launcher to view, edit, and delete existing posts or create new ones. Deactivate older news to hide it from view while keeping it in the archive.
TESTIMONIALS
What people are saying
FAQs
Your learners can see your updates on their dashboard feed and also receive news straight to their email.
Yes, in the Audience section, you can target news to specific cohorts, manually selected users, site administrators, users with an assigned role, or everyone on the system. You can add multiple audience rules to one post, and the Access list shows you exactly who qualifies before you publish.
They aren’t lost. When you deactivate a post, it’s hidden from view but stays in the news archive. You can manage all your posts, current and archived, from the Learning News window in the menu launcher.
We release regular plugin updates that deliver the latest security fixes and new features. If you apply updates yourself, we recommend updating your plugin at least every six months to keep it running smoothly and avoid security issues.
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