To help learners become and remain engaged in a course, the Open edX platform can send automatic email messages that notify learners of responses to discussion posts.
Note
Before the system can send automatic email messages for any courses, a system administrator must enable automatic messages on the instance of the Open edX platform. For more information, see Enable Discussion Notifications.
After a learner or course team member creates a post in the course discussions, the platform sends the following email message the first time a learner or course team member replies to the original post.
Subject: Response to <title of post>
<username> replied to <title of post>:
<text of comment>
The message also contains a View discussion option that takes the learner to the discussion post.
The platform does not send individual messages for any additional replies on the post. However, the learner automatically receives a daily digest email message that summarizes additional activity on the post. For more information, see Receiving Notifications and receiving daily digests.