Weekly digest email

[dimstudio]

It would be nice to have a weekly digest email to remind people what happened in the platform like the Basecamp notifications: Here’s the latest activity across everything.

[Titogelo]

I think I will add here the planning for the actual implementation that I have in mind. Since I have limited time I can't go for a fully functional notification system... but I think something can be done in this line.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Titogelo]

What can't be done:

• Personalised notification system for each user: to implement this in a decent way, it requires new data structures to store the information from the notified event for each of the users.
• This means that we can't send an email with things you've specifically missed last week.

What can be done:

• We can send a report with all the activities in which the students added content during the last week.
• This approach is simple because it relies in a "simple" query filtering by date. (It is not a simple query but a map reduce algorithm can do the job pretty well)

[dimstudio]

I think the simple approach works well. Just an activity digest over the last week for all the activities in that group. I bet that in that way the number of log-in in the system will increase a lot