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How To Add Student Specific Reminders

By Paolo Dona — Mar 23, 2011

NiftySchool provides an Alerts system that notifies you when something needs your attention.

When something needs taking care of, for example an overdue payment or a student with exceptionally poor attendance, the system will show a warning box in the general dashboard and student’s file page.

There are a number of predefined alerts in the system, but you can also set up your own custom alerts.

From today custom alerts can be optionally linked to students so that a warning message will be displayed in its file page at the right time.

Previously, custom alerts where ‘generic’ and only shown in the general dashboard.

The ability to link a custom alert/reminder to a student is useful when you want for example:

• Remind the student to fill a questionnaire
• Review his progress on a regular basis (you can schedule multiple reminders)
• Call the student on a given day
• ..and so on.

Just go to the Alerts page and click ‘New Alert’:

The form will allow you to specify a description, the date of the reminder and the student it should be associated with (optional):

If associated with a student, the new alert will be displayed in his profile page:

With this update, it will be easier to associate reminders to the right students, and you won’t risk to miss them when you open the student’s profile pages!