Create a Personalized Learning Rule in LMS

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The **Personalized Learning Designer (PLD)** is a tool you can use to automate certain actions in your courses when specified criteria are met. For example, you can create rules within the Personalized Learning Designer to send emails to students whose grades drop below a certain percentage, send alerts to students upon accessing your course that let them know they have not completed activities or assignments that are near the due date, or redirect students to supplemental material after scoring poorly on a quiz.

Go to the course home page.

Screenshot of the Oklahoma City Community College online course page for "NAUT 420: Advanced Nautical Nonsense," showing the welcome area with a central image of small black objects scattered on a white background.

Click "Open LMS".

Click "Personalized Learning Designer".

Screenshot of the Oklahoma City Community College online course page for "NAUT 420: Advanced Nautical Nonsense," showing the "Open LMS" dropdown menu open with options for "Open Grader," "Personalized Learning Designer," and "PLD (Legacy)."

This page will show you all of the rules that are currently in place. From here, you can filter certain rules that you created from the Activity and Event Type. Click on **Create a Rule,** which then should prompt three boxes.

Click "Create a Rule",

A screenshot of the Oklahoma City Community College learning management system (LMS) page for "Personalized Learning Designer," showing a welcome message and interface to create, filter, and view rules, with sections for Name, Events, Conditions, and Actions.

The first box is the **Events**; this category determines what event needs to take place for the rule to trigger. Here are some examples of certain events that we can place: activity viewed, activity completed, or activity graded. After you have chosen the event, be sure to click on **Add a new event**.

A screenshot showing the "Events" section of a rule creation interface in a learning management system, with a required "Rule name" field, an explanation about event categories (scheduled/recurring and triggered by user/course action), a "Select Event type" dropdown menu displaying options like "Activity viewed," "Activity completed," and "Activity graded," and an "Add a new event" button, all with red arrows pointing to the interactive elements.

The next category is **Conditions**. While an **Event** is required to create a rule, a condition is optional. A condition is an additional trigger that can be placed on top of the Event, such as “User role check,” “Course login,” or “Course grade range”. You can set multiple conditions and only require one or all of them to be in place for the rule to trigger. Once you are finished selecting your condition/s, click on **Add a new condition** then click **Save**.

A screenshot showing the "Conditions" section of a rule creation interface in a learning management system, with a required section title "2. Conditions," an explanation about conditions not being necessary and how they differ for scheduled versus user/course-triggered events, "Select condition type" dropdown with options like "Activity viewed," "Activity completed," and "User role check," a "CONDITIONS RECURRENCE" dropdown, and an "Add a new condition" button, all with red arrows pointing to the interactive elements.

The last category is **Actions**; you will need at least one action to create your rule. The action is what will happen once the rule has been triggered. An action could be sending an email or displaying an alert. Once you have selected your action, be sure to click on **Add a new action** then click **Save**. It is going to display the rule you created to make sure everything is right. Once everything looks correct, click on **Save** again

A composite image showing three sections of a learning management system's rule designer: 1. Events, with "Select Event type" dropdown options like "Activity viewed" and "Activity completed," and an "Add a new event" button; 2. Conditions, with "Select condition type" options like "Activity viewed" and "User role check," a "CONDITIONS RECURRENCE" dropdown, and an "Add a new condition" button; and 3. Actions, with "Select action type" options like "Display alert" and "Send email," an "Add a new action" button, and "Save" and "Cancel" buttons. Each section has red arrows pointing to key interactive elements.

If you are confused or unsure about how to set up rules using PLD, or still need some additional information, please watch the videos below or contact the Center for Learning & Teaching by calling 405-682-7838 or emailing [CLT@occc.edu](mailto:CLT@occc.edu).

PLD Example 1 (send an email when a student starts failing the course): <https://youtu.be/MLx7DejZBdk?si=MxDm3MbFBhBDVBU4>

PLD Example 2 (send an email when a student might be marked as never attended): <https://youtu.be/hLV4I2-20WU?si=ybh5UQRiWSIRkW08>

PLD Example 3 (display an alert when a student has first entered the course): <https://youtu.be/N1x1znm1zoo?si=dIZsOE1YC19N7QeS>

PLD Example 4 (redirect a student to supplemental material when they fail a quiz): <https://youtu.be/2JAY-J9Mhe4?si=XjNal3icAtfyOsox>